School of the Wild!

I went into detail what School of the Wild is in my next post, as things are getting out of order because I am trying to go fast. I did leave out of my post that all this took place last Wed. (halloween) through Friday (Nov. 2nd), we were there for 3 days.

Here are the explanations of these pictures. 1st-2nd picture- Meredith explains all about 2 chickadees that we caught in our "mist net," they have a special liscense that allows them to do this, then she banded them. 3rd- Meredith lets some girls pet the bird. 4th- Meredith holds a nut hatch bird. 5th- I hold the nut hatch and I am going to release it back to the wild, she had already banded it. 6th- Here Jason cuts up some food that he grew in his garden for us all to taste. We got to taste peppers, apples, carrots, and a purple potato!!! (7th pic) I know there are lots of things I am missing that we got to taste, we spent about 2 hours in his garden. 8th- Jason and Chad help some kids plant some garlic in the garden while the other kids worked hard digging up sunchokes (sun flower roots). 9th- Jason slices up one of his tomatoes.

It was an awesome day. Not only did we learn all about plants but also about trees and prairie plants. We also got to play a fun game called "Coyote Tag" in the tall prairie.