Dominique Dhainaut-Medina along with her life partner Javier and their three children Pascal, Marai and Amelia moved to Davis and joined DWS in 2022. Growing up in the city in Chile she decided early on she wanted to be a farmer and went to school to ‘’become one’’. After Graduate School at UC Davis and becoming a mother over 8 years ago, she discovered the immense joy of spending time with children in nature and accompanying them in the exploration of our surroundings. Working with children she has witnessed the power of nature as healer and the rich sensorial enrichment it provides. She believes that involving children in the caring of our natural world is crucial for sustaining our life on this planet and one beautiful way to achieve this is by learning from the food we eat and the land that grows it.
The emphasis in the respect for the natural world was what initially drove her to Waldorf School where her children have attended since their preschool years. Now she joins DWS as the gardening teacher with the desire to keep making the garden a place to have fun, to learn, to eat together, to share our food cultures, and to inspire children and their families to care for our Earth. When she is not at school, she loses herself in her garden, tending for the plants and the soil and picking fruits and veggies for her family to enjoy.
EMAIL: gardening@daviswaldorf.org
