All that the rain promises… preschoolers?

By Founding Director Adela Martinez Berg

Our young foragers have been busy learning about all things forest this past month! We hit the trail in the second week of November to immerse our senses in a guided foraging session with help from parent, Alexander Kun, talented and knowledgeable local forager. Students explored a wide variety of forest abundance, tasted redwood sorrel, held a juvenile salamander, and harvested many familiar mushrooms we had been learning about in the classroom. At one point we came to a particularly dense redwood grove Alex referred to as ‘The Cathedral” for how it warped the sound vibrations when passing through. Students wove between the ancient trees to test the theory, proving that not even massive redwoods stand a chance at dulling their exuberance. I have always felt children have a certain aptitude for mushroom hunting; perhaps it is their closeness to the earth, in my wilder imagination it is that fungi are just as curious about children and decide to tip their caps just in time to be noticed… what do you think?