Schools & Learning

The Grow Your Health gardening, food & wellness festival seemed so important when it first launched in 2013, I left ...
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Attending Rooting DC is enough to make a person want to dig under the snow to get started gardening! The 8th annual ...
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Parents who care about Real Food couldn’t have asked for a better display of enthusiasm for cooking than that shown ...
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Anyone who thinks the words "environment" and "education" should go together: Virginia Beach looks like the place to be March ...
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Leaders of Northern Virginia’s environmental education scene met last week to discuss recent renovations and sustainability initiatives taken at George ...
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Long before launching the new Nourish Schools Super Food Cards this past October, Katherine Sumner has been an inspiration on ...
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There may be a lot of fall festivals and holiday bazaars, but there's nothing quite like an event at a ...
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Holistic Moms Network is a cool enough group for local and online support for living holistically, but it's even more fun ...
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Simplicity Parenting is one of the books I had out last week at the Holistic Moms Arlington/Alexandria daytime meeting on "Supporting Children's ...
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At the first National Kids Yoga Conference on September 27, we learned about many wonderful recording artists, authors and others providing ...
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While many of the biggest and most well-established camps in the DC area filled when there was still snow on ...
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When I learned that Jessica Wallach of Portrait Playtime was going to teach a photography-themed camp at the nature-loving Eastern Ridge School in ...
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How does your school garden grow? Spring is a busy season for gardeners and, as the past few weeks have ...
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Not only are moms around the country lobbying legislators today for clean air as part of the Moms Clean Air ...
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Learning outdoors and creating with nature can be beautiful and fun, but for some educators, the how-tos are not obvious. On Saturday, ...
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Green teams, eco-clubs, Earth Force crews: environmentally-aware students of all stripes came out to the April 10 School Environmental Action ...
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There are a number of preschools in the DC area that I call "outdoor-happy preschools" -- places where children are expected ...
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