By Laura Christman



Montgomery Creek School students got a hands-in lesson Friday — they put their hands right in the dirt.

"Everybody pick up a handful of soil," Common Vision volunteer Rinah Segal told several students standing around a tiny pear tree. "In this handful of soil are billions of creatures too small for you to see. It's really amazing, huh?"

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By Karen Rifkin

With the mid-day sun beating down on the valley of Ridgewood Ranch, they appeared simultaneously, seemingly choreographed, with pick axes and shovels in hand and began digging holes, about five feet apart, in a semi circle behind the gazebo of the La Vida Charter School classroom building. They are young adults, environmentalists, who share a common vision.

In 2005, Megan Watson, her husband, Leo, (both of Hopland) and Michael Flynn were working as volunteers planting vegetable gardens with students at continuation high schools in Los Angeles. When they introduced donated fruit trees the kids got really excited and felt like this was something that would last a long time, a gift they could give to the future. Inspired by their own students, the three founders of Common Vision realized they wanted to plant more fruit trees and work with students and schools throughout the state of California. With their idealism and one bus, they initiated the project.

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