On the first day of Arts First, Program Manager, Andrew Ciotola, Program Assistant, Dan Newman, Biology Professor, Mark Spiro and I led First-year students and Second-year mentors to Bucknell Farm, an in-process space with fields of wild flowers. Mark told students they could liberally pick flowers; I explained we would experiment with making dyes and using stalks as fibers. “Foraging” became a new concept and source of humor for students. Secretly, I think they enjoyed being outside.
