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Shearing Our Flock of Farmyard Sheep

Watch our Children's Farmyard flock get sheared and learn about the equipment and process!

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Farm to School
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Making Butter Activity, and the Power of Food Memories

Food holds a lot of power, and it holds a lot of opportunity for us early childhood educators to help set attitudes for life.

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Make a Snowflake - A Project Seasons Activity

In the spirit of winter, we're sharing this favorite activity from our publication, Project Seasons, to help you appreciate the beauty of snowflakes!

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Place-Based Education

Local Action, Global Impact Activity: Studying Community and Place

Two activities we often use to help students cultivate knowledge of place, part one of a new series.

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School's Out(doors): Place-based Education Responds to COVID-19 and Beyond

A resource to support you in doing more place-based education. Always a powerful approach to learning, place-based education is also a powerful answer to COVID-19.

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Summer Learning on the Farm (with Activities!)

We’ve partnered with the Winooski School District to create a summer school program with time both on the farm and in the classroom - read more and get activity inspiration!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Print, Pattern & Place

Use the “3 P’s” of tracking — Print, Pattern, and Place — when creating your own story of the secretive lives of wild animals!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Animal Clues!

Wild animals are quick, sneaky, and often hard to find out on the land — but they often leave behind signs or clues that they’ve been around!

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Winter Wildlife Detectives: Who’s Out There?

Investigate which animals are active in the cold months, and which take a long winter's nap.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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