Along with our colleagues at Goshen College, most of the Merry Lea Team is hunkered down and working from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Small things, great love
Greetings from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
Sustainability students confront complexity
It’s been nearly two months since the seventh cohort of undergraduates completed Merry Lea’s Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS). Between mid-August and mid-December, they shared classes, meals, field trips, hikes, social activities and a weeklong canoeing adventure.
Winter 2020
The Winter 2020 Merry Leaflet follows students in last fall's Sustainability Leadership Semester as they explore gravel pits, learn about food councils, talk with government officials and make pizzas in a wood-fired oven. You'll also accompany our nature preschoolers as they encounter a dead deer and watch ibises in flight in the Bahamas.
Nature preschool excursions
What happens when children’s interests drive education? Merry Lea’s Nature Preschool could offer plenty of examples. In one case, it all began with dinosaurs.
Seed Swap Includes Miami Plant Traditions
For Dani Tippmann, corn is part of the family. Historically, the kernels were ground into flour, the cobs were used to make jelly and the corn silk could be smoked or made into a tea that is cleansing for the kidneys.
Merry Lea celebrates its volunteers
According to Maria Tice who coordinates the generous contributions of labor, those hours are worth $29,463. She based this calculation on statistics from the Independent Sector, which values a volunteer hour in the State of Indiana at $24.13.
The Merry Lea Team: Transitions
Meet the new Merry Lea team members!
Nature preschool explores all weathers
Four days a week at noon, a small caravan leaves from the Farmstead Barn. There are two wagons, three teachers and a gaggle of 14 preschoolers wearing matching backpacks and rubber boots. The children take turns pulling the wagons which carry supplies for the day.
Autumn 2019
We asked our Merry Lea alumni what they were up to and over 25 of them responded. See who's got owls in the classroom, who knows how to make cabbage steaks, who married a man whose property she remembers canoeing past with the Sustainability Leadership Semester...and more. Also read about our new nature preschool.
