Earth School – Digging in the Dirt: Alive Inside
For the past 12 years, our Earth School students of all ages have taken twice-yearly trips to the nursing home in our community to visit with the residents. I had always noticed that young children really enjoy engaging with the elderly, and that everyone wins, the young and the old, through these warm and loving […]
The ‘Other’ Refugees
Unaccompanied children from Central America are seeking asylum in the United States and have nowhere to go. What can we do? Perhaps it is not about what we do, but what we don’t do. I have the honor of working with the ‘other’ refugees – the ones we haven’t been hearing about in the news recently.The […]
Earth School – Digging in the Dirt: No Doodling Allowed?
When did removing children from nature become a form of punishment? Or is it meant to make nature an incentive for obedience within a system whose requirements are unreasonable? What are children being trained for exactly? My intention with this blog has always been to present the alternatives, the bright side of what is possible, […]
Digging in the Dirt – Small-Batch Earth School
Homemade and handcrafted have better quality, that small-batch cookies you baked in your oven taste better than packaged, store-bought cookies, and the same principle is true for teaching children. The saying that Earth School has grown by is “small is sustainable.” It’s an essential principle of Permaculture, and for Something Good in the World it’s always related to our […]