Learning outside: Each year, at the end of the school year, Dudley Elementary second graders travel to the Doug and Stephanie Block farm for a pasture hike/scavenger hunt, tractor rides, butter making, farm stories, relays and games.

This year, the 10th time the Block farm experience has been offered, youngsters went May 9. Right, Doug Block (top) took kids for tractor rides. Youngsters are, l-r: Trevor Mazour, Hudson Nickerson and Jordyn Franzen. Left, Arissa Ackerman participates in the “dress-like-a-farmer” relay.