Playful
Learning
Programs
Wiggle Worms Nature Class
Celebrate the seasons with year-round outdoor exploration. Young learners can investigate our outdoor living classroom and garden, interact with farm animals while learning about their care, and hike to natural spaces. Children will have the opportunity for child-led outdoor play, creative arts, and guided activity time to promote age appropriate social, cognitive, and emotional development.
Monday-Thursday, 8:30AM-12:30PM
Choose to come two, three, or four days a week based on availability.
Ages 2.5-5
Farm Friends After-School Club
Spend the afternoon getting back to nature with garden discoveries, natural play, building, creative arts, and caring for our onsite animals including the goats! Children can bus to our location from Pinon School or be dropped off.
Wednesdays, 12:30 PM-5:00 PM
Ages K-3rd grade
Fall Term: 8/23/23-11/29/23
Spring Term: 1/31/24-5/29/24
Sprouts Farm Camp
Spend the week immersed in our outdoor classroom and nature play space. Campers will have the opportunity to harvest and cook snacks from the garden, make garden art, meet and care for our resident goats and chickens, collect chicken eggs, and join in on class fire circles. Daily routines are designed to connect children with the natural world through hands-on interactions with food, animals, and wildcrafting. Sprouts Farm Camp is grounded in forest school principles with ample outdoor child-directed play, play invitations, and guided food and nature-based education.
Summer camps are led by licensed and experienced Worms and Wildflowers instructors, who have completed early childhood and first aid training. Instructors provide a welcoming, comfortable environment where children are free to explore their interests, ask questions, and lead their play.
Jr. Sprouts Farm Camp
Ages: 2.5y - 4y
Date: June 17th-21st, 2024
Time: 8:00am -12:30pm
$250/week
Please email director@wormsandwildflowers.com to be added to our waitlist.
Sprouts Farm Camp
Ages 5y-8y
Date: June 24th-28th, 2024
Time: 8:00am-12:30pm
Cost: $250/week
Please email director@wormsandwildflowers.com to be added to our waitlist.
Seasonal Farm Products
Farm products will be available throughout the year including eggs, honey, vegetables, and crafted items. Check back for updates on available products. Proceeds will go towards future class projects!
Farm store now closed
See you summer 2024!
ABOUT US
Worms and Wildflowers Nature School is an LLC and operates on the three-acre residential property of Denise and Topher Matthews in White Rock, New Mexico. Denise Matthews is the director and lead-educator, while Topher assists with operations and is a guest teacher. Our programs offer outdoor, all-weather, early childhood education in a comforting home like environment. Whole child and place-based education guide our daily activities through gardening, food production, animal care, and nature play.
Classes and programs operate out of an outdoor living classroom and inside studio space with a kitchen and bathroom. Our outdoor living classroom includes a nature play area, a large garden, and a greenhouse. Also accessible on our property is a wild fort building area next to the goat barn and chicken coop.