The Mountain's Edge: An Education for these Times
Where young children are invited into relationships of love, care, and interdependence with the natural world, with one another, and with all humans.
Easthampton, MA
“Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion—until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying ‘it’ makes a living land into “natural resources.” If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Mountain’s Edge Nature & Play Preschool (ages 3 – 6 years)
Learn more about our Early Learning program here.
Possible Future Offerings
Possible future offerings include:
- family nature immersion classes (for infants – early childhood),
- home school nature immersion classes, and
- toddler support group for parents.
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