“To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path.” – Nicolette Sowder.
At Little House Farm Nature School we expose our students to the wider and wilder world through a hands-on immersion into all seasons! Nature is transformative and has the unique ability to build confidence, teach life skills, encourage creativity and imagination, promote movement, and connect us deeply to our environment and to each other. Children who play outside are happier and healthier!
Wild Hearts
(3-6 years old)
This class is enriched with child-led play. We incorporate nature-based, seasonal lessons that include art, simple experiments, songs, games, and stories.
Classes are held at Little House Farm in Maeser.
Tuesdays 10am-12pm
$55/month, $10 discount for each additional child in the same family.
Explorers
(7-11 years old)
Our older class incorporates nature-based, seasonal lessons, as well as wilderness skills and nature art. We also begin a sit spot and nature journaling practice
Classes are held at Little House Farm in Maeser.
Thursdays 10am-12pm
$55/month, $10 discount for each additional child in the same family.
Contact Heather at 435-633-7022 to register your child!
Meet the teachers!
Heather Speth (founder)
Miss Heather has been in love with nature since the age of 17, which led to a Bachelor’s degree in Recreation Management & Youth Leadership. Later she earned a Master’s degree in Education and a certification in yoga and permaculture design. She has worked with kids in the great outdoors at Beaver High Adventure Base, Philmont Scout Ranch, and Elevation Outdoors. This has accumulated to over 400 nights sleeping in a tent! She also taught Leadership and STEM for six years at a Williamsburg Academy Online Middle School. She opened the Nature School on her family’s little homestead in the fall of 2023. Heather has a particular fondness for the moon (and even wrote a book about it!), loves homesteading with her husband, homeschooling their son, and taking advantage of the many nature adventures throughout the Uintah Basin.
Jessica Musgrave
Miss Jessica has been a wife, mother and children’s educational program volunteer in many formats for over 2 decades. Her experience with children includes youth sports coaching, religious education instruction, homeschooling education coordinator, and early intervention planning for high risk children. She specializes in safety training and recently retired from 17 yrs as an expert in personal safety strategies, teaching threat prevention in the fields of bullying and abduction prevention. As a former seasonal Park Ranger aide in 3 states she has done wildlife rehabilitation, trail maintenance, nuisance species prevention and outdoor education. Presenting local wildlife and plant education to schools and nursing homes has been a long standing passion. Outside of the Nature School she loves spending time homemaking, serving, and continuing her education. She also loves foraging for herbs, natural remedies, making fermented foods, working with birds of prey, cooking over a fire, playing in the creek, and catching fireflies.