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'Garnet Mesa Days' are the biggest field trip days of the season. There are about 100 kindergartners, 2 farms, 10 different education stations, 20 chaperones [...]

This is rather embarrassing, it's been a month since my last post (I know ya'll have been waiting at the edge of your seats for [...]

Despite the wind yesterday, the Hotchkiss K-8 Life Skills class had a great field trip at Zephyros Farm and Garden. There was a consistent wind [...]

Last Tuesday was our first harvest day in the Biodome. Several montessori students harvested their greens for the Hotchkiss High School National Honor Society induction [...]

Last Friday was Ecology Day for Hotchkiss K-8 3rd graders.Instead of focusing on ecology through wilderness, and natural systems- we took another route- through our [...]

The NFCMS have been busy with their growing experiments in the Biodome. They have several projects growing in the 'dome. We are starting tomatoes for [...]

last week, no- actually - two weeks ago was spring break for students in delta county. we kept busy here at the kampe foundation world [...]

It was a blustery day at the Hotchkiss K-8 today, snowed even. Mark and I brought in soil, cells, watering cans and name tags for [...]

This Tuesday we focused on soils, seeding tomatoes and sampling some squash. Tongue twister.Last Sunday morning, Adam and I were building beds in the biodome. [...]

A lot has happened since my last update. We have partnered with the Lamborn Foundation to bring "Ground to Table" lessons to the NFCMS. The [...]