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.