I took a break from the farm last week to chaperone our daughter’s 7th grade class on a field trip to the Catalina Island Marine Institute. It was an amazing week full of snorkeling, kayaking, tidepooling, hiking, and learning about oceanography. If children in your life ever have a chance to attend this program I recommend doing anything you can to make it happen! (And alas, no, we did not see the oar fish–we were in the next cove over.)