Environmental Nature Center: 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Tom Sawyer & Native Skills Winter Camps

Playing dress up. Using our imaginations.

Mark Hay teaching the Native Skills Campers how to sharpen and harden their arrows.

Fire hardening the arrows.

Sharpening the arrows.

The front page image from the Daily Pilot's article about Tom Sawyer Adventure Camp, on 12-28-09.

"Carving" toys out of clay.

Making and painting a "fence" - just like Tom Sawyer did!

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?” - Mark Twain.

Mr. Dan reading the Cajun Night Before Christmas by Trosclair with his authentic accent!

Painting and spinning our tops.

Groups shots from Week 1.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Holidays Gone Raw at the ENC!

Holidays Gone Raw, taught by Raw Food Chef Alysha Maiorelli, focused on making simple and amazingly delicious recipes using vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains.

Everyone enjoyed the yummy food!

§ Tagliatelle, an Italian pasta, with a light sage and basil "cream" sauce over wilted spinach and topped with marinated mushrooms, "sausage", and pine nut Parmesan.

§ Cinnamon Donut Holes drizzled with caramel sauce - I bet you thought being healthy meant giving up donuts, right? Not with raw foods! These donuts are much better and an excellent dessert that is great to bring to those Christmas parties!

§ Apple Cobbler - inspired by my Grandmother's famous apple pie, this dessert can be whipped up in minutes, but the warming spices speak to the senses and take you back to that old cooked favorite.