Prairie Woods opens its venture into nature-based education for preschoolers

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Prairie Woods opens its venture into nature-based education for preschoolers

SPICER — If you were to design from scratch what a nature-based, early childhood education center should offer, you would almost certainly come up with what the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center already has. Its setting in northern Kandiyohi County offers roughly 500 acres of rolling terrain with woodlands, wetlands and prairie, along with seven miles of trail to explore them. Add to that the Westby Observatory building, a five-classro…