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The story of how one former teacher bought a farm and started weaving the concepts of permaculture with the principles of self-directed education to build a unique alternative to school for families in the Chagrin Valley of Ohio.

Sweden is known for being a child-friendly society. However, with educational laws rewritten in the last 10 years, Sweden has become extremely controlling over the schooling of its children. This is leaving the young people of Sweden in a dire predicament.

The mathematics found all around us in play and life are plenty to evoke wonder, interest, and conjecture. School math – which can also be seen in homeschooling and unschooling spaces – is taught as a lifeless set of rules with no context and techniques that are not much fun or very useful.