Creating Art to Teach About Nature

Yesterday, Liz, Rachael, and I, in collaboration with Footprints in the Soil (FITS), an environmental non-profit, set up a children’s craft activity at the Ojai Farmers Market. We wanted to do an art project that involved native plants, so we picked different materials that came from our orange grove: lavender, sage, rosemary, mustard, onion blossoms,…