This winter we continued our partnership with Monterey Regional Peninsula Parks District Let’s Get Outdoors program and implemented a new curriculum – Water & Winter: Exploring Our Local Watershed. Families joined for a morning of exploring how water moves through our farm, meet the plants and animals of winter, and reflect on how people can share and protect this vital resource. They got to learn how water moves through our landscape — and how people and nature share it. The 40 participants explored the farm’s living watershed, meet winter plants and animals, and think about how everyone deserves clean, reliable water.
Families discover how water moves and is stored in a watershed through water cycle tag & exploration of our swales. They learn about water access and fairness through a water cup relay followed by a discussion about water in the Pajaro Valley. Winter flora and fauna is explored through a guided nature scavenger hunt and culminates in a reflective conversation about stewardship and what they learned.
We are looking forward to continuing the Water & Winter: Exploring Our Local Watershed curriculum next winter!