The students have arrived!
Last Tuesday afternoon the NFCMS students arrived in the biodome for the first time in 2010. Also, we had a new guest instructor, Webb Eavenson. [...]
2010 Projects
There are several projects for 2010, but we are going to put the Biodome at Hotchkiss High School at the top this spring.Mark and I [...]
volunteer appreciation party
that's about it for 2009!we had a volunteer appreciation party at louie's pizza in paonia on october 29th. we had about 20 folks for pizza, [...]
seed saving with the 1st graders
On october 28th mark and i visited with the hotchkiss 1st grade classes for a seed saving activity.i wish that brought the camera!after reading a [...]
garnet mesa field trip!
On october 21st we hosted 100 kindergartners at 2 local farms to learn about food and farming! it was a beautiful day; the weather was [...]
mountain harvest festival 2009
last weekend was the north fork valley mountain harvest festival. check out: mountainharvestfestival.coman incredible celebration showcasing the bounty of our region during the most wonderful [...]
tomatoes for all!
last week mark and i visited the 2nd graders at the K-8 in hotchkiss. we brought just a small sample of the tomatoes that they [...]
summer science camp
Thistle Whistle Farm and The Kampe Foundation have been hosting the NFCMS summer science camp on tuesday afternoons. the farm is a great place for [...]
classroom complete!
just a short post of some pictures of our completed yurt classroom! everyone has responded so positively to this beautiful classroom space. we are very [...]
our farm classroom
we may finish up our on-farm classroom this week. we've been working on this one for months, thru the busiest time of the year in [...]