What animals can we find at the farm? What does a juicy tomato taste like fresh from the vine? This month for Tales and Trails, we will be reading Before We Eat: From Farm to Table written by Pat Brisson & illustrated by Mary Azarian. After that, we will search the gardens for delicious fruits and vegetables and learn about what farm animals call Merry Lea home.
Ever wanted to learn how to make your own cheese or dairy free cheese? Work with Merry Lea’s animal husbandry expert, Ruth Mischler, and sustainability undergraduate students in this adult program to make and learn about different types of cheese and dairy free cheese! Transform local, raw cow milk and homemade cashew milk into cheese that you can take home! Then you will finally be able to answer the question…Who did it better, the cow or the cashew?
Get mucky and immersive with this family program to explore what a wetland is and why we should care about them! Put on waders to dip for aquatic macroinvertebrates and use your investigative skills to identify these critters and more!
Ever wanted to learn how to make your own cheese or dairy free cheese? Work with Merry Lea’s animal husbandry expert, Ruth Mischler, and sustainability undergraduate students in this adult program to make and learn about different types of cheese and dairy free cheese! Transform local, raw cow milk and homemade cashew milk into cheese that you can take home! Then you will finally be able to answer the question…Who did it better, the cow or the cashew?
Join us for an exploration of the Merry Lea Teaching Farm orchard, a unique edible ecosystem you can taste! See how humans and nature help apples grow by companion planting, encouraging pollination, and protecting the trees. Then we’ll press apples into cider and enjoy a cup!
Join Merry Lea this fall for an “enchanted” night hike! Trail guides will lead groups by lantern-light to meet real “live” animals on our trails. These friendly creatures will tell you about their diets, habits and favorite places. Our costumed staff and volunteers will answer questions about life as a native Indiana animal. Hikes are one hour long and head out about every 25 minutes.
Join Merry Lea this fall for an “enchanted” night hike! Trail guides will lead groups by lantern-light to meet real “live” animals on our trails. These friendly creatures will tell you about their diets, habits and favorite places. Our costumed staff and volunteers will answer questions about life as a native Indiana animal. Hikes are one hour long and head out about every 25 minutes.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow! Bring your little ones to Luckey’s Landing at Merry Lea and we will read Because an Acorn by Schaefer. Then go looking for other kinds of seeds and how they are connected to the animals and plants in the forest around High Lake.
Interested in connecting with fellow educators? The Early Childhood Hoosiers Outdoors (ECHO) Network is designed to support education practitioners wanting to get students into outdoor learning settings. We meet on the second Monday of odd months at 4 pm by zoom.
Don't wiggle your way out of this! Discover the world of worms and how they benefit humans, the soil, and more! Go for a hike to find worms, and examine a worm up close to see its external structures, watch how they wiggle, and hear the noises they might make when they move.
