First-ever UMF institute provides educators with natural inspiration

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UMF Nature Based Ed-Ashira Knapp
Ashira Knapp from the Koviashuvik School in Temple with some of the 15 participants who joined her on the UMF campus and in Abbot Woods to learn a system of positive plant identification for finding healthy edible and medicinal plants.

FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington recently brought more than 120 educators to campus for its first-ever Nature Based Education Institute. There, teachers were versed in how to inspire learning in their classrooms based on a child’s sense of wonder about nature.

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