The Nisqually field trip is a trip where you learn lots of new things and get to walk around looking at many different kinds of beautiful scenery from mountains to trees and rivers. You start off your trip at the Nisqually cultural center where a man named Hanford introduces you to the land and starts to teach about his peoples’ history. He tells us about the wood they use and how they weave things like hats and baskets. He also explains how the trees are his trees ancestors and how instead of destroying the trees they shave the trees to use them without killing them.

After leaving the Nisqually Cultural Center, you take a van to the hike. This walk takes you through a forest wetland where you see multiple different kinds of animals and plant species. You learn a lot about the land with your new guide on the hike. It’s a really enjoyable hike when you pay attention to your surroundings. With the many different sizes and colors of water it’s hard to get bored on your journey in the forest.

The second field trip in trees is a trip down to the hilltop neighborhood in Tacoma. Hilltop used to be a cheap place for families with lower incomes to afford but now there is new houses being built leaving room for only richer people. Down there you learn a variety of different things about the city like the divide between the people and the government. You go on a walk with a guide named mereum. They take you through the neighborhood and you learn about things like little library’s and hugs free food.

Hugs is a program where they grow healthy foods in gardens for people who can’t get to healthy food because the neighborhood around them is built with only fast food restaurants and no grocery stores. Hugs grows food with the community, not only to give the community healthy food but to unite them as a people.