Gray Whales Playshop at Alvord Farm and Museum!

October 13, 2011

If you are looking for something for you kid to do after school on October 18th we highly recommend checking out our friends at the Alvord Farm and Museum! Gray Whales Playshop with Carrie Newell, PhD. Tuesday October 18th, 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm Join us for a very special event at the Alvord Farm [...]

Read the full article →

BPV: Developing Earth Fanboys (and Fangirls)

September 20, 2011

Every so often I get into a Visioning space. That Bombastic, Pie-in-the-Sky Visioning space. Do your mental wanderings ever bring you there? Over the coming months and years I’ll periodically share some of my musings with you. Enjoy. We need Earth Fanboys, and Fangirls. We need people who truly cherish our earth and who giggle [...]

Read the full article →

The Neophyte Ninja

September 14, 2011

Today we have a special guest blog from Kathy Mezger, one of our summer instructors. Take it away Kathy. In August, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with my daughter Anna as a neophyte Ninja. Spending a week in the woods, playing like the Lost Boys in Neverland, was my idea of a vacation. [...]

Read the full article →

A Little Hurt Can Be a Good Thing

August 11, 2011

At our recent Big Bear Village nature camp we instituted a new tradition. At the end of the session, the oldest kids were sent out on a supervised “survival” outing. I was really impressed by the way that it worked out and we will definitely be doing it again. However, after camp one of the [...]

Read the full article →

Off To Big Bear Village

July 30, 2011

We are headed out to Big Bear Village, our week-long overnight summer camp for kids 10 and up. This week will be completely awesome and I am really excited about what we have planned. If you are trying to reach Whole Earth Nature School this week know that we are out of phone range. We [...]

Read the full article →

Kids at EverCamp Discover a Clue

July 3, 2011

Here is a brief video of a very exciting moment at this week’s EverCamp. The kids have just discovered a clue to help them defeat Captain Belladonna.

Read the full article →

Featured Summer Camp: Homesteading

June 10, 2011

Homesteading is probably one of our most fun and creative camps. It is a blast to transport ourselves back in time to a not-so-distant era when humans relied on our own hands more for the things that we needed. In 2006 I worked for Pipe Spring National Monument in Arizona. The Monument is an historic [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →