WINONA, Minn. – An eighth-grade science teacher at Winona Middle School, Joseph Cynor, is taking students outside the classroom for immersion experiences living off the land. Nobody goes too far though. Students in Cynor’s elective class mostly stick to the school neighborhood, but they learn possibilities for securing food from their own backyards and nearby public land. The emphasis is on hunting, fishing and gathering.
CYNOR. He taps his experience in the outdoors from living in Alaska and learning he Yup’ik subsistence living culture.
