Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 22.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and today we're continuing with part two of my conversation with Sally Clarkson.

But first, a quick interview between Jennifer Pepito and Terry Woods.

They talk about the upcoming Wild and Free Conference in Nashville, what they're up to this summer, and homeschool plans for the coming year.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started. So tell me a little bit about what summer looks like on your farm.

Well, we school year-round, so in theory, we're schooling right now.

And I say in theory, because I was out of town all this past week, and the week before that,

we had a lot of things going on.

And so it's kind of hit or miss.

There's no schedule, really, which is, I know, pretty bad. But, you know, it just is what it is right now.

And yeah, we just kind of just read and do some narration.

But I told someone, you know, if I school year round like this, at least I know we get a basic

amount of schooling done because the school year for us, you know, we don't always get full days

during the theoretical school days. So I make up for it in the

summer. Well, and my big thing is just after years of homeschooling, I would give them an entire

summer off, and then we would start math again. They'd forgotten almost everything we had done

a year before. And so I found myself re-schooling for the first, you know, four or five months.

So I just thought, forget that.

So I try to keep some level of math going just because I don't want to have to reteach.

If they just do it a couple of times a week, it still sticks with them.

The whole summer off concept came because in the summer kids needed to help in the fields,

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