Hello LEFDP Fans! Just a quick greeting from the Discovery Program desk and a simple request . . . We had a stellar week last week in the fields with about 180 kids visiting the farm between Wednesday and Friday. It would have been about 240 kids had Monday's visit by Ann Soldo Elementary not

We of the LEF Discovery Program have been busy in the fields and off site this fall.  We are in the heart of our fall tour season, and have about two tours a week with schools mostly from Watsonville.  We are hosting a lot of third graders this year, which is new.  We are glad

Stanford University, Ann Soldo Elementary kick off tour season. We are off to a busy week in the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program! We had an amazing time with the "SPOT-lets" (Stanford Pre-Orientation Tour). We had ten wonderful incoming freshmen and two enthusiastic leaders who are sophomores at Stanford stay with us for four nights.

Long-time CSA member and LEFDP board member Tera Martin produced this wonderful short movie about the Discovery Program. Please take a moment and enjoy!

I am getting so excited for another fall season of education to begin on the farm. The transition into this, the busiest of seasons, makes me so proud of what we have built. With just one reminder e-mail to the schools of the Pajaro Valley and Monterey Bay Area, we received dozens of phone calls

Pickles and felting and masks, oh my! Last week's session of Art on the Farm camp breezed by in a haze of arts and crafts, cooking and baking, and planting and harvesting projects. We had a small group this session (only 5 campers by the last day of the week), but that meant we got

Hi there, I'm Grace Chollar-Webb, the new Education Program Coordinator for the LEF Discovery Program... and I'm very happy to be here. I am working closely with Jessica Ridgeway, LEFDP's director, as well as Farmer Tom, to learn the ropes and help orchestrate the myriad educational activities here on the farm. The most astounding thing

During one of the farm tours at the Solstice Celebration a boy, his mouth stained with blackberries, tugged on my arm to show me his harvest: a cupped hand filled with shiny black juicy berries. When I asked him if I could try one, he held out his hand out and said, "Farmer Tom, I

"One, two, three, eyes on me!" a common, but not too common refrain during the wild farm rumpus that was Art on the Farm Camp. On Friday we finished an amazing week of camp with 17 wonderful 6-12 year olds and 4 teen Leaders in Training. When the parents joined us on the farm on