Join Learning Tree Farm’s Community Education Coordinator, Jean Berry, as we explore the garden, looking for things that start with the letter L. What can you find in your...
At this February’s For the Love of the Farm event, we were working on writing skills-and no one even knew it! The morning was spent on intentional activities designed to show our animals the LOVE as well as work the large and small motor skills that are so...
We all love those dreamy warm spring or fall days where the weather is perfect, everyone is well-rested, healthy, and ready for adventure. However, those days in Ohio are fleeting, just as they are in life. Going outside to play or work, no matter the weather may...
Nikki has been one of Learning Tree Farm’s talented, trained educators for two years, but her affection for the farm goes back much farther than that. When Nikki’s son, Miles, was five years old, they discovered the farm. It was, she says, “a hidden gem in the middle...
It’s late afternoon on a late autumn day. The light is already fading; the temperature is 30? and dropping; there’s an ice storm on the way. Most of us were heading to our cozy homes for warm dinners and hoping that nothing would require heading out again, but not...
Rene Hick, one of our wonderful Nature Preschool teachers, first knew she enjoyed working with children during her pediatric nursing rotation at Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan back in the early 90s. Her nursing background is the...
