Harvest Festival and Lantern Walk
After many weeks of polishing, peeling, slicing and cooking apples that we picked at Henley’s orchard and baking our Harvest loaf of bread the children and teachers shared the abundance of...
View ArticleHappy New Year
“King Winter is in the land! He reigns with cold and freezing hand.” After two weeks of family time and holiday celebrations the children returned to school eager to play with their friends. The...
View ArticleA winter verse
Michael Hedley Burton translated Rudolf Steiner’s collection of 52 verses, The Calendar of the Soul, into English for children and “the Child in each and every one of us.” I would like to share the...
View ArticleRenewal
Our mild winter seems to be turning into spring sooner than imaginable. This week is our winter break. I have been using my time away from teaching to catch up on administrative work. I have also...
View ArticleSpring has officially arrived!
During our winter break I learned how to use a chainsaw!! My friend and neighbor on the farm helped me cut down two big cedar trees that had been standing dead behind our barn for years. I had been...
View ArticleGardening
I have dreamed of gardening with my students for many years. Until moving into the current home of The Rose Garden I did not have the right conditions for taking on growing food. I am also the one...
View ArticleWinding down
The first year of our new Rose Garden is quickly coming to an end. This time of year the children are growing and changing so much. They remind of the mammoth sunflowers that are growing up to create...
View ArticleOff to the orchard together we go
The Rose Garden families gathered at Henley’s Orchard on a glorious September morning. Tim and Sarah Henley have been graciously hosting the Rose Garden for several years. Their orchard has been family...
View ArticleGratitude
As the days began to grow shorter the Rose Garden families gathered in the magical forest around Sharifa and Eric’s home. We each brought a dish to share for dinner. We feasted on the bounty of...
View ArticleCovid-19
The Rose Garden is practicing “social distancing” during this time of coronavirus Covid-19 spreading in our community. We will be closed until it is safe for us to gather as a community again.
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