Grow Your Brain

April 25, 2013

As a naturalist and tracker it is essential that I keep honing my awareness all the time. At camp I am always doing things to help the kids become more aware of their surroundings. This sort of practice grows your brain and your senses.  Memory and awareness practice works in much the same way as [...]

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Crunch Time

April 18, 2013

Summer is sneaking right up on us. I love the summer time. It is the time of the year when we are the busiest and work the hardest and it is, by far, the most fulfilling part of the work that we do. We are so lucky that we get to spend all day outside [...]

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What a Year

April 9, 2013

Congratulations to Isabella, Liam, Max, and Sasha on an epic year as our first Whole Earth Nature Apprentices. We are incredibly proud of the work that all of you did this past year. A year ago we took on these four apprentices with the commitment that they would spend a full year dedicating their time [...]

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Tipping the balance

March 20, 2013

Happy spring! Today is a great day because it is the Spring Equinox. That makes it officially the first day of spring. The word “equinox” is derived from the latin words for “equal night”. That reminds us that today the daylight and the darkness are equal as the sun rises due East at 6am and [...]

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Like learning to read

March 15, 2013

Recently, I was reflecting on the journey that one walks when learning to read signs in nature. One of our students recently became the first to earn his Level Two Certificate on the Way of the Owl. The Owl teaches us all about awareness and tracking and it was evident that he put in a [...]

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Dirt is good for you

March 1, 2013

At camp we expect kids to get dirty. Usually the dirt is just a byproduct of having fun outside. Sometimes, though, we go all the way and get ourselves as muddy as we can on purpose. Of course, one reason to get all muddy is that, done properly, it can make us blend into our [...]

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Nature Makes Kids Smarter

January 17, 2013

We created Whole Earth Nature School because we were worried. We were worried about the trends that we saw in the lives of kids moving away from nature and outdoor play and how it was impacting them negatively. Electronic media is definitely a factor.  We learned that 88% of kids report using a computer every [...]

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