The Farmer’s Wife, April Viles, built this curriculum on a working farm - tested with 1000+ children before it reached your kitchen table

Web of Life began at Sand n Straw Community Farm, our regenerative family farm in Vista, California.

In 2020, when the world slowed down, our farm became a place where families could gather, learn, and reconnect with the outdoors. From that season, Young Pioneers was born — a hands-on farm school where children learned science, gardening, cooking, nature, and homesteading by actually doing it.

Web of Life is the at-home version of that real farm-school experience.

Every lesson has been shaped by what we have seen work with real children — hands in the dirt, eyes full of wonder, questions being asked, recipes being made, seeds being planted, and learning coming to life outside of a textbook.

This is not a curriculum created behind a desk. It was grown on a farm, tested with children, and built for families who want learning to feel hands-on, meaningful, and connected to the world around them.