Enrichment Operation was created to provide additional academic, social, and emotional supports both in and outside school.
We are dedicated to extending students' learning by introducing them to fishing, cooking, arts, and countless more experiences.
08/01/2025
Come on out next Thursday (8/7) for a beautiful evening celebrating community and raising funds for area youth!!
Let’s introduce ourselves to one another. Let’s expand our circles. Let’s come together with the objective of making Fargo/Moorhead more safe and inclusive 🖤🧡
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come through. Ice cream treats, baked goods, and delicious food/drink from Harold’s on Main, Duck Duck Goose, and Addie’s Sunshine and Treats!!
And if you want succulents… they are going to go quick!! We will have a few of the biggest and best up for silent auction but all others will be priced to sell!! Sale starts at 4pm!!
You are loved
07/08/2025
Another powerful night of joy and happiness at Mighty Oaks Equine Learning Center made possible by NDAD!!
Communication is a tool that needs sharpening via practice. Doing that with animals and humans alike, while simultaneously challenging your comfort zone, builds friendships.
I want to live in a world where a friend of a friend is a friend… and last night, my friends became friends.
Thank you to everyone that has played a role in making these adventures possible 🖤🧡
07/01/2025
These incredible fellas gave me an afternoon I badly needed and will never forget. Being a part of these chaotic and crazy moments is a gift that I will never take for granted. Listening to my brothers excitement before, during, and after… I know they are on the same page.
Life is difficult. Experiences matter. Friendship is the answer. We must create the world we want to live in.
Mighty Oaks Equine Learning Center is a place where healing and growth happens. It is a place where we are met with love and acceptance by animals and humans alike. It is a place we are grateful to frequent ❤️ Thank you Angie, Amber, and every amazing soul that made last night and all nights possible.
An enormous thank you goes to NDAD and their Gibbens Memorial Grant, which will allow us to get many groups out for some time strengthening our relationships with nature and one another.
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My name is Peter Ferguson and I’m a proud product of Moorhead, Minnesota. During my 6 incredible years as a classroom teacher in Taiwan, Wisconsin, and here in Moorhead, I quickly realized that I was put on this planet to encourage and inspire children. It is difficult to put into words how special ‘my kids’ have always made me feel. I know the vast majority of the students I have worked with would say the same about me. Every one of my current and former students and colleagues have played a role in me moving forward with this dream.
While in Madison, I had the incredible privilege to teach at a middle school very near to Lake Monona. In the spring and fall when fishing was good, I held an after school fishing club. In the winter months I held cooking club. For someone born with a fishing pole in one hand and a spatula in the other, this was a dream come true. Many of the participants had never dreamt of catching a fish or baking a pie. The reality is, most young people don’t have these opportunities. It was during these ‘enrichment opportunities’ that I saw minds being blown. I got to witness firsthand the impact had when children are exposed to new experiences. After each of these club meetings, I would always mutter, “if only this were my full time job.” Being that I had a classroom to organize and prepare, curriculum to plan, papers to grade, copies to make, emails to send, calls to make (the list goes on and on - teachers are magicians), this life wasn’t sustainable. Although I knew it wasn’t sustainable, these moments ignited dreams within me that now are coming to fruition.
For the past year, working alongside our amazing educators here in Moorhead, my job has been quite simple. All day I am an additional adult in our classrooms, hallways, and cafeteria telling our students they are talented, brilliant, and capable of amazing things. Each morning I have the privilege to tell countless students I am happy they are at school today, to continue working hard and being nice to their peers. Every moment I am searching for the student that needs to be picked up and made to feel safe. Relationships have been constantly built on trust, respect, and consistency. It is absolutely amazing what can happen when you aren’t tied to one classroom or caseload and the exhausting workload that follows.
This work has been done fairly quietly in preparation for the second phase of our mission, providing exposure to enrichment opportunities. I firmly believe that if we ever expect behaviors, attitudes, and work ethic to change within the school setting, we need to take a more active role in our student’s lives after school. I wouldn’t be the man I am today without fishing, cooking, traveling, and the endless list of other opportunities I had growing up.
My friends, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for believing in me. I hope to make you proud as we work together to make this community and world a more safe, healthy, and welcoming place.
