Some Videos from Quail Springs!

I thought would post some videos taken during the first half our trip, at Quail Springs.

In this first video, Ryan and I are explaining the food forest to Marcus. Do we seem a little tired and sun-dazed? We are! Happy too though... check it out. :)



In this next video, we are with roughly 1/2 the class, towards the end of a morning of tracking on the Cuyama River. We had set up tracking stations for the students - basically tracks or sets of tracks and/or sign with specific questions associated with them for the students to answer. After they had gone through all of the stations and written down their answers, we went back through as a group and talked about the questions, with Marcus and I sharing our knowledge and/or thoughts. The purpose of this exercise was for the students to evaluate their own tracking knowledge. Something about this setup also seems to be really effective for many people as a learning tool. The exercise was modeled after the CyberTracker Evaluations which were developed in Africa and brought to North America by Mark Elbroch.