09/18/2026
🍂 Turns out, the best classroom has a pretty spectacular view.
Colorado is showing off, and our adolescents are learning right in the middle of it. 🍁⛰️🚂
Colorado is more than our backdrop. It’s our classroom — where learning stretches beyond four walls, away from screens, and into the places, people, and stories that surround us.
Yesterday, our adolescents caught the first brilliant glimpses of fall as their classroom stretched into the Colorado mountains for a day of learning at the Georgetown Loop and Lebanon Silver Mine.
As part of their current Intercession exploring migration and the movement of peoples, students went underground and back in time, examining the forces that have moved people across landscapes for generations: resources, work, opportunity, transportation, geography, and the promise of building a life somewhere new.
But the learning reaches even deeper. Mining opens conversations about geology, labor, economics, engineering, human impact on the land, and the rise of Colorado’s mountain communities. The railroad tells another story: how transportation changed where people could go, where communities could grow, and how people and resources became connected across challenging terrain.
This is adolescence at The Farmstead: away from screens, beyond the walls of a classroom, learning directly from people, places, history, and the land beneath their feet.
And on a September day when the aspens are just beginning to turn? 🍁 There is something pretty extraordinary about getting to grow up, explore, and learn right here in Colorado.
The colors may have been vibrant, but so was the learning. 💛
