A school without walls at the edge of Narragansett Bay — where kids and adults learn the water by getting into it, and where a community grows the way an orchard does: slowly, together, and for good.
The Bay School connects people of all ages to the natural world through education, exploration, and community.
The tree is the land. The sail is the water. The school is where they meet — and the apples are why the red stays rare everywhere else.
Hands in the water, eyes on the marsh. Education that sparks curiosity and builds real knowledge — of boats, of creatures, of this coast.
The bay is the classroom: its wildlife, its weather, its endless lessons. Freedom to wander, with watchful people close by.
Community built through connection, respect, and care — for each other and for the water that holds us all.
At the edge of Fort Getty, where the marsh meets the mooring field, there is an apple tree that generations of kids have climbed. It grows a stone's throw from salt water — fruit on one side, sails on the other. That tree is the whole idea: roots in the land, life on the water, and room for everyone underneath it.