Discover a Love for Reading and Nature

Let’s Read Outside/Leamos Afuera

  • Let’s read bilingual, nature-themed books in a beautiful place!
  • Let’s play and sing in the garden!
  • Let’s make arts and crafts inspired by nature!
  • Let’s learn about the bugs, insects, and animals that live on the earth with us!
  • Let’s make new friends!

Reading aloud is the most important thing you can do to get your child ready for kindergarten. Time in nature has been shown to improve focus, wellbeing, and happiness. With Let’s Read Outside, our we’ve combined the two!

Let’s Read Outside is geared towards children 5 and younger and older youth are welcomed to participate and contribute as reading mentors.

Donate Books

Contact us at (707) 544-7284 to learn about how to donate books to Let’s Read Outside. We are always happy to take donations of gently used or new books, especially bilingual books about nature.

Jodi, Let's Read Outside participant.

" Wow, this is like practice for kindergarten! "

Thank you!

This program funded by the Outdoor Equity Grants Program, created through AB 209 and administered by California State Parks, Office of Grants and Local Services.

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What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn?  

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by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist at LandPaths I arrived at LandPaths’ Ocean Song/Myers Preserve at 7:30am, the sun rising over a thick ocean of fog, and …

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Reflections on Interconnection in a California Coastal Prairie

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by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn Stewardship Field Specialist The grasslands at Bohemia Ecological Preserve are California coastal prairie, a protected and unique habitat that contains an incredible amount of species …

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