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Students in Merry Lea’s Master’s in Environmental Education program discuss vexing social problems in their Environmental Issues and History class. They prepare presentations on topics like micro-plastics and nuclear disasters. All the same, students say they find hope in the course.
About once a month, 24 students from the Goshen College Laboratory Kindergarten class — a partnership between the college’s education department and Goshen Community Schools — spend the day climbing trees, building shelters and making mud pies in Witmer Woods, through Merry Lea’s Kinderforest program, the first of its kind in Goshen.
Every year in September, Joel Pontius leads students in Goshen College’s Sustainability Leadership Semester on an eight-day canoe trip from the headwaters of the Elkhart River at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center to Lake Michigan.
In a 5-acre pasture at the Merry Lea Sustainable Farm, you’ll find cows and chickens sharing the land with some unusual roommates — nut trees, fruit trees, grapevines and raspberries.
The Farmerama podcast talks to John Mischler, Merry Lea’s Director of Agroecology, and Ellie Schertz, the Assistant Farm Manager, as well as two students who’ve chosen to return to Merry Lea and volunteer for another summer (begins at 21:30).
Aly Munger, a 2017 graduate of Merry Lea’s master’s in environmental education program, is “eco-art educator" at Artist’s Boat, Galveston, Texas. She came to Merry Lea with a bachelor’s degree in art, hoping to integrate her background with her love of beautiful landscapes.
Goshen College received the 2018 Partners for Clean Air award from the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) at their annual awards luncheon on April 25, 2018.
With a series of new programs taking shape, The Center for Climate Change Solutions hosted its first board of reference meeting March 9-10 at Eastern Mennonite University.
What happens when sustainability, education, and agriculture intersect? Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College is a leading example. Michael Galbraith, director of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership’s Road to One Million calls the center a “hidden gem.”
As Merry Lea celebrates its first half-century, we take a look at the role it's played in environmental education at Goshen College and in the community.