Where the wild grapes are!

The first few weeks of our school year have been full of adventures and explorations out on the land at Pacifica, getting oriented, building our new class community, learning what plants and animals live around us on this landscape, and harvesting all the abundance of the Autumn season.

Each week on Wednesdays we have a whole school "skills day" where we play nature awareness games, build community, and practice all sorts of earth-based skills together. We celebrated Autumn Equinox week with a Manzanita berry harvest and Manzanita sugar making, which we then turned into "lemonade" to cool us off on that particularly hot afternoon.

It's an abundant acorn year! We've all been enjoying harvesting and cracking acorns to get ready for one of our favorite days at forest school: acorn pancake day! Acorn has been a staple food for people all over the world for milennia, so at Earthwise we love to build this relationship that humans have always had with oak trees as an important food source.