CRAFT Students visit Sterling College

Sophomores and Juniors in CRAFT spent Friday, November 17, 2023 at Sterling College learning about this small, unique school in Craftsbury, Vt. They took a campus tour, ate in the dining hall and got to sit in on college level forest ecology and animal husbandry classes.

Students also learned about the fiber arts classes by naturally dyeing yarn that was made from their sheep and colored with locally grown and harvested plants. Students explored the outdoor education component by scaling great heights on the campus climbing wall even after the sun went down.

They then traveled to the Northwoods Stewardship Center in Island Pond for an overnight. In the morning they shared breakfast together, reviewed their newly created CRAFT portfolio and hiked an interpretative forest trail.