Over the past two years, the National Association of Conservation Districts has awarded the Ferry Conservation District a planning and implementation grant for Urban and Community Conservation. This funding allowed us to partner with the Republic Church of the Nazarene to establish a community garden in the heart of Republic, Washington. Although the grant has concluded, the project will continue to progress as we prepare for the 2026 growing season. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed their time or materials to help make this project possible.

Although it was a rainy day, that didn't stop our kindergarten crew! After equipping our little outdoorsmen with the tools needed to identify shapes in nature, we set out to collect as many objects as we could that were shaped like circles, squares, and triangles. The greenhouse provided a cozy place to warm up and create our beautiful leaf crowns. And what’s an outdoor field trip without a scavenger hunt and relay races?

Students spent the day at the Ferry Conservatio District Outdoor Education Center learning about soil types, forestry practices, leaf types, and bees!

This marked Republic Kindergarten's first visit to the Ferry Conservation District's Outdoor Education Center! We used our magnifying glasses to explore nature up close and learned about the common shapes found in the wild. The day concluded with the students playing hide and seek in the tall grass, creating lasting memories of outdoor adventures.

Join us on our adventure to the Ferry Conservation Outdoor Education Center with the Republic Outdoor Adventure Rangers! We went on scavenger hunts, we learned about the spread of weeds, and even became beekeepers for the afternoon and explored the bee hives.

A fun-filled day with the Republic Second Grade class included planting seeds, learning about weeds, preventing erosion, and bird-watching.