Under last Friday’s early October sun, a handful of Bolinas schoolchildren huddled under trees in a nearby orchard, filling buckets and expectant mouths with a dozen apple varieties. Out by the Pine Gulch Creek, another group of students cleared out invasive species. One girl passed a ball of black pond earth back and forth between her hands before smearing an environmental Ash Wednesday benediction on the forehead of her classmate.
The students were participating in…