This class is an enrichment opportunity for students during seminar.  We have a fun group of students who love to be outside and appreciate the beauty and complexity of nature.  We have started a series of forest gardens at DP which provide food for people and habitat for wildlife and require very little water.  They are designed using the principles of Permaculture, which we explore in this class.  
In addition to learning how to propagate and grow plants, we also explore nature connection activities.  We track animals on the cross-country course and learn about edible and medicinal wild plants.  We learn to look and listen closely to the natural world and to pay attention to patterns in the landscape.  

 

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“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding.” 
― Jim Robbins