Don't those empty tree stumps look inviting? Home school students from Unity are learning how to study nature like scientists this fall and we are using our new forest classroom near the Eco Ag Center as our homebase. Inquiry Based Learning Inviting students into learning by exciting their curiosity and allowing them to explore is what inquiry-based learning is all about. The outdoors are a living laboratory and nature study lends itself perfectly to this kind of learning

The beginning of cool weather in the fall makes me think of harvest time, gathering together with friends and neighbors, and gives me the itch to start creating quilts again. Last month, I gathered at the SCCD community garden for a harvest meal - some of which included veggies grown in the garden - butternut squash, tomatoes, basil, melons, kale, beans, etc. Even with a dry beginning the land produced an abundance this growing season. Early this month I will have the pleasu