How can we be smart food producers? the answer Local and Organic… Migration and Solar Energy

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These past couple of weeks have been filled with extraordinary adventure and chaos.  We have really been getting to the nitty-gritty of what it means to produce food that is healthy for people and the planet.  We discovered that monoculture’s efficiency isn’t very efficient at all and that growing a diversity of crops is delicious and nutritious for all.  Ideally we would all raise food this way close by and prevent all the transportation that is involved in our food from being necessary.

Kindergarten and first have been exploring how cool and challenging it is to be a bird.  We discovered that we could help by providing more feed for their return by making lovely and delicious pine cone bird feeders.

Fifth and Sixth are opening up a whole new can of worms if you will by exploring how we use energy and from what sources they come.  Understanding the difference between combustion and its dangerous exhaust and solar has been a challenge but a worthwhile endeavor.  The Museum even came with some solar motors for our use and understanding.

The worms are settling into their new homes and have only experienced a little bit of trouble form their new parents.  Mostly they receive love, shelter and food from a bunch of really awesome kids.

Science fair is on its way and soon we will be seeing just how much food waste we produce,  whether worm’s have food preferences and maybe the trouble with styrofoam…

Worms arrive, migration and what is renewable energy?

These weeks between break and now students and faculty have had much time to reflect on values personal and for the world at large. With this in mind we have been diving into some of the large connections with our world. We began to look at just how we generate energy and what the consequences are of these types of resource use. Additionally the role that migrators play in our survival here in Santa Fe (for our food sake) has been a fun perspective through some migration hopscotch and kinder and 1st agree we will be helping our migratory friends. SO exciting thou is the arrival of the worms and their induction into their new homes. It was so fun to all hold and courteously make a small worm nest with soil in our hands, just to say hi to them.