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StudentsStudent participation is quite common. There are students from different schools that come on a yearly basis for a number of days. They stay in the community and participate in the life, for the most part having meaningful experiences. The most common experience is that students come into contact with the older members, and this often gives them a totally different picture of the end of life, than is usual. Many younger individuals have experiences with older family members in nursing homes, and this “turns them off”. In the community most get “turned on” again. There is also student participation for a day or a half a day, often brought about by an individual who runs some form of nature program. Such programs exist in the local area, but groups come from elsewhere, including New York City. In process is an effort to offer younger children from the local school district the potential to have nature experiences and experiences of our farm. Our calculations are that about 3-4000 hours of student participation takes place each year. There are students who, at the end of the teens and the beginning of the twenties, come to participate for varying lengths of time. Foreign students have often found their experiences worthwhile. For such students it is important that they make direct contact. Each student’s stay is worked out on an individual basis. |
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