NatureTrack and SYV Fruit & Veggie Rescue team up…”FarmTrack” adventures
Carrot craziness in the classroom? Not quite. All those carrots in the wagon? They were sprung from the ground by the eager hands of Los Olivos school kids as part of their NatureTrack adventure during the first blush of back-to-school days already this fall. It was unexpected, all the energy turned loose in the field when those 7th graders got off the bus to grab a handful of carrots. This new dimension of NatureTrack in cooperation with SYV Fruit & Veggie Rescue takes schoolchildren into nature from the organized agriculture of an organic farm immediately into the natural water weeping over Nojoqui Falls with a discussion of California fault lines, landslides, slate and the reason for local waterfalls along the north side of the Santa Ynez Mountains. This scope of nature from field to wilderness helps build awareness of the habitats we live near. Geology, botany and habitat from the field to the mountain is quite a lesson in a scant two-hour block full of education in a successful NatureTrack outing.
