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We are a homeschool enrichment program registered with the National Wildlife Federation's ECO-Schools agency. Under the guidelines of this program, Freedom Montessori Academy sets goals to create a healthy environment and provides opportunities for children to learn about environmental education, regenerative agriculture practices, and care for the planet. Learners enjoy working on our schoolyard habitat, learning about wildlife, and biodiversity.
Healthy Food Activities
Healthy Food Activities
Daily, learners engage in meaningful hands-on activities about nutrition and culinary arts on the educational farm.
Free Play
Free Play
Learners engage in uninterrupted free play where they enjoy building social skills, problem-solving, using their imaginations, and relaxing in our natural setting.
Farming
Farming
Our young farmers tend to the plants on the educational farm, learning about the life cycles of plants, scientific principles, and harvesting food.
2025-2026 FMA ECO-School Goals
Our year-long goals are met by using the Montessori Method of education through hands-on academics and meaningful lessons each day during homeschool enrichment sessions.
Maintain the Schoolyard Habitat
Maintain the Schoolyard Habitat
FMA learners maintain the garden by using regenerative agricultural practices, ensuring it remains attractive, healthy, and functional for wildlife, plants, and the learning community. The schoolyard habitat provides wildlife with food, water, cover, and places to raise their young. Eco-friendly farming practices will increase the garden's biodiversity, supporting birds, pollinators, and other animals during all stages of their life cycles.
Build an Edible Garden
Build an Edible Garden
Over the years, FMA learners have built engaging edible play areas. Through gardening, children will transform the grounds into spaces for hands-on learning and community collaboration. Students are engaged in sustainable living, ecosystems, healthy eating, and plant life cycles by building, planting, harvesting, and consuming an edible garden. Students connect to nature and support the growth of living systems.
School-based Composting
School-based Composting
FMA learners have been composting since 2015. Composting is the process of recycling organic waste materials such as food scraps (like banana peels and apple cores), paper products, and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. It not only helps to reduce the amount of waste headed for the landfill but also creates fertilizer that helps plants grow big and strong.
Sit Spot
Sit Spot
While we don't need to explain this concept to children, as they naturally relax in nature and are keen observers, it is exciting to intentionally create peaceful areas. A Sit Spot is a routine practice that cultivates awareness, observation skills, well-being, and nature connection by visiting one specific place in nature regularly. The natural environments around our educational farm offer a variety of opportunities for learning, discovery, and meaningful interaction with nature. This activity can take anywhere from 5-60 minutes per sitting, and is best when repeated over a period of time (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, or seasonally). Turned into a routine, a Sit Spot helps improve self-expression, creativity through nature journaling, as well as uplifting mental, emotional, and physical health. Learners deepen their relationship with nature and reflect upon their role in reconciliation through this simple, yet profound, place-based learning activity.
Build a Pollinator Garden
Build a Pollinator Garden
FMA learners are excellent pollinator garden builders. Learners plant flowering plants around our educational farm to give pollinators plenty of space to thrive.
Did you know that there are over 4,000 species of wild bees in North America? Bees are the most numerous and effective pollinators, but many other animals also pollinate plants, including butterflies, moths, wasps, flies, ants, birds, and bats.
Pollinators are vital to life on Earth. More than 85% of flowering plants depend on wildlife for pollination. Students learn how pollination works through maintaining gardens and observing pollinators.
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