As part of Faith, Responsibility, and Sustainability class, all ninth grade students take field trips to Snipes Farm and Education Center where they engage in experiential learning about agriculture, land stewardship, entrepreneurship, and community, in ways that connect and examine these themes through a Quaker lens.

This course builds on the student learnings from Essentials of a Friends Community and has two main components: field trips to a Snipes farm, and school-based learning about some of the world’s major religious traditions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam – and how they have made sense of people’s efforts to live a meaningful and good life.

Students study, learn, and explore topics related to the theme of how various traditions connect community, food, faith, justice, and the Earth.

Take a look back at scenes from this spring’s experiential class!