We posted this to the Natural Start Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/naturalstartalliance/) and it has been super popular, so we thought we'd share it here too.

From teacher Peter Dargatz at Woodside Elementary in Wisconsin: "I wanted to find a way that I could combine the things that I'm required to do with the things that I'm passionate about, and benefit the whole-child approach altogether. In my research, forest kindergarten was the answer to that equation."