On a grey Sunday, May 4, 2025, a group of 29 riders assembled in lower Manhattan as part of the TD 5 Boro Bike Tour. Everyone was pumped to bike for a cause — through city streets, across bridges and overpasses — all to raise resources for Christodora’s nature, learning, and leadership programs.

Spring 2025 featured two public volunteer days where Christodora friends and students helped to support our local parks.

Picture the end of October at the Manice Education Center: The OE staff wave goodbye as the last bus of field trip students departs for NYC, reeling from all they took in from the MEC landscape–The last of our summer veggies have been harvested for George; the golden rod, now bronzed, sweep the edges between the cut grass and wild forest edges; the chickens huddle closer together each night as the temperatures begins to dip…and then: the canvas tents come down, the yellow raincoats on the porch get counted, sorted and stored away, and the windows of the farmhouse get boarded up… inside, a once loud and lively dining hall is dark and quiet. 

Before there was the Manice Education Center in the Berkshires, there was Camp Northover in New Jersey - where generations of Christodora youth experiences the great outdoors every summer. Local historian, Ross Rapoport has been researching the history and geography of the old camp and has this dispatch to share.

In November 2024 our CORE students traveled to the Mianus River Gorge to learn about their old-growth hemlock trees and support the park through stewardship.

Check out all the fun and fabulous photos from The Campfire 2024!

A joyful celebration of community in support of Christodora!

Many hands make light work!

Manice welcomes Malus domestica to the campus.

Another year, another campfire - a night of warmth and community!

A new book chronicling the many lives of Christodora House by Joyce Milambiling is now available!

This past weekend, alumni spanning the generations gathered at the Manice Education Center in Massachusetts for a nostalgic weekend. The two days were about reconnecting with an important place and helping broaden the circle of our alumni across generations. Board members joined in the fun, too!

Thank you to all who supported our inaugural 5 Boro Bike Tour!

Learn how experiences in nature helped to shape Christodora’s new executive director — and more!