Falling leaves & Garden harvest - Children's Program

For October's Family Program, we celebrated the beauty and bounty of autumn, as well as its bittersweetness, as the days get shorter and the nights colder. We first read the book The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia. In the book, Freddie the Leaf learns of the changes and cycles that life brings to us all, from bursting forth in spring and soaking up the summer sun, to changing color in the autumn and eventually dying and returning to the earth, only to be recycled into more life in the spring again. Freddie learns from his wise friend, Daniel, how we can either resist these changes or move with them gracefully and wholeheartedly. We then raked up a big pile of leaves and jumped in it, before moving over to the garden to help put the garden to bed and have a celebratory harvest potluck.

Ringing the Temple Bell

Gathering the squash harvest

Potluck Garden Harvest lunch at the Garden