Nature Friends LC

Nature Friends LC Nature Friends explores the beauty and wonder of the natural world with your children. Southern, New Mexico

Today our Nature Friends put in the work on enteries for the youth group art booth competition at The 2026 Southern New ...
09/04/2026

Today our Nature Friends put in the work on enteries for the youth group art booth competition at The 2026 Southern New Mexico State Fair SNMSF&R

09/01/2026

🌱💧 Desert to Dish: Hydroponics💧🌱

Today our Nature Friends explored how plants can grow without soil through the science of hydroponics!

Ms. Hibah introduced the kids to hydroponics and explained how ☀️ sunlight, 💧 water, 🧪 nutrients, 🍃 leaves, and 🌬️ air all work together to help plants grow.

Then Ms. Felicia helped each child set up their very own hydroponic growing system complete with seeds to take home, care for, and use to grow food! 🌿🥬

Through Desert to Dish, kids are learning where food comes from while discovering different ways we can grow it! Paso del Norte Health Foundation

⭐️ Meet Our Members Monday ⭐️Today you get to meet 4 year old Taylor whose kind and caring nature brings positive and pe...
08/31/2026

⭐️ Meet Our Members Monday ⭐️
Today you get to meet 4 year old Taylor whose kind and caring nature brings positive and peaceful energy to each of our activities.

At Nature Friends, eating outdoors is more than having a picnic. Through our Desert to Dish project, we've discovered wh...
08/31/2026

At Nature Friends, eating outdoors is more than having a picnic. Through our Desert to Dish project, we've discovered where food comes from by harvesting vegetables on local farms, picking fresh fruit in orchards, gathering pecans, exploring microgreens, growing potatoes at home, cooking over campfires, making tortillas from scratch, baking cornbread, and even creating prickly pear lemonade.

Sharing a meal outside helps children connect the food on their plates to the land that provides it. Every outdoor meal becomes an opportunity to learn about agriculture, native plants, nutrition, gratitude, and stewardship of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Join Us as we host a Night Hike to celebrate Latino Conservation Week! All ages welcome for this free event generously s...
08/30/2026

Join Us as we host a Night Hike to celebrate Latino Conservation Week! All ages welcome for this free event generously sponsored by hispanicaccess

🗓 Tuesday, September 15th
⏰️ 6:30 - 8:30 PM
📍 Veteran's Memorial Park, Las Cruces
🥾 1.0 mile hike on an easy, flat, accessible trail
👒 Make a glow-in-the-dark hat
💡 Headlamps provided

08/26/2026

More apple orchard adventures 🍎 🍏 🍎
🔹️ Apple picking
🔹️ Apple stamping art
🔹️ Apple toppings bar

~ From Desert to Dish

08/26/2026

🍎 From Desert to Dish: Apple Picking 🍎

Nature Friends had the sweetest adventure at Nichols Ranch And Orchards ! Our kids got to experience picking fresh apples straight from the trees and connecting with where our food comes from. 🌳🍏

After picking, we turned apples into art by creating apple-stamped tea towels, then wrapped up the morning with an apple toppings bar filled with delicious ways to dress up our freshly picked fruit!

⭐️ Meet Our Members Monday ⭐️ Today you get to meet 4 yo Maximus whose determined personality brings confidence and a ca...
08/24/2026

⭐️ Meet Our Members Monday ⭐️
Today you get to meet 4 yo Maximus whose determined personality brings confidence and a can-do spirit to every Nature Friends adventure!

🐦 Migration Monitors: Survival Game!Today our Migration Monitors played a hands-on survival board game to experience the...
08/21/2026

🐦 Migration Monitors: Survival Game!

Today our Migration Monitors played a hands-on survival board game to experience the challenges birds face during migration!

Kids had to navigate obstacles while finding the food, water, shelter, and safe resting places birds need along their journey. They learned how predators, weather, habitat loss, and limited resources can determine whether a migrating bird survives.

A fun way to discover just how challenging migration really is! 🌎🐦🌿

08/18/2026

🏕️🌲Nature Friends stayed busy learning while camping in Cloudcroft - making mini fire-starting kits, pitching tents and hitting the trail for a hike.

One of the highlights was working together to make Friendship Soup over the campfire! 🥕🥔🥣 Each Nature Friend brought an ingredient to contribute to our vegetable soup. The kids did the work themselves, peeling, chopping, mixing, and pouring ingredients into the pot before watching it all come together over the campfire. 🔥

Camping gave us the perfect opportunity to practice outdoor skills, build independence, work as a team, and experience the joy of preparing and sharing a meal together in nature!

Thank you Paso del Norte Health Foundation for supporting our outdoor learning 🙏🏽

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