Perhaps in gaining our safer, more predictable way of survival we have lost a secret language and sensory communion with the natural world? Let's get curious about what the forest has to tell us.

Young children have exquisitely receptive senses and soak up information like a sponge. They have not learned to filter their environment and therefore take it all in with amazing accuracy. We know feeding children whole foods is an important part of healthy development. Offering their senses “whole” or natural materials is also important for healthy child development.