Throughout our 25th year, we’ll be sharing stories of young people whose Boxerwood experiences shaped their passions and vocations. Have a young friend to recommend? Contact Catherine Epstein: catherine@boxerwood.org Growing up in the small town of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, Sarah Hollen loved every opportunity she had to get out of the classroom and explore outdoors. “Getting the chance to hold little critters, touch the snakes, all of those things…a highlight was macroinvertebr

Throughout our 25th year, we’ll be sharing stories of young people whose Boxerwood experiences shaped their passions and vocations. Have a young friend to recommend? Contact Catherine Epstein: catherine@boxerwood.org This past November, when Jake Osella was surveying the border between our Woodland Garden and the golf course, he found himself in an unexpectedly familiar position. “There was a Boxerwood kids’ program going on,” he explained. “They were walking through, so I wa

In 2018, Maya DeHart biked across the country from Virginia to Oregon. Thinking back on the trip, she notes that pedaling thousands of miles of terrain – as opposed to flying thousands of miles above it – strengthened her relationship to that landscape. Now 31, Maya reflected that the journey created a strong sense of “deepening the relationship to the world, and recognizing what it feels like we need to protect.”  Maya has been building this relationship to her environment s

Throughout our 25th year, we’ll be sharing stories of young people whose Boxerwood experiences shaped their passions and vocations. Have a young friend to recommend? Contact Catherine Epstein: catherine@boxerwood.org By the end of a work day, Olivia Saacke wants to be worn out. As a member of the trail crew at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Olivia spends many of her working hours hiking through the forest and building bridges, staircases, and ladders using only the mate

Meet Jacob Zimmerman, LDMS Math Teacher Throughout our 25th year, we’ll be sharing stories of young people whose Boxerwood experiences shaped their passions and vocations. Have a young friend to recommend? Contact Catherine Epstein: catherine@boxerwood.org Jacob Zimmerman loves math. He loves it so much that he majored in the subject at Bridgewater College, and he now teaches math to 6th and 8th graders at Lylburn Downing Middle School in Lexington. Growing up, though, math w

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Meet Sophie Dryden, conservation biologist Throughout our 25th year, we’ll be sharing stories of young people whose Boxerwood experiences...