<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2021/raising-nature-loving-family.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Raising a Nature-Loving Family</title><excerpt>When Karen Schmidt Jones ’97 and her husband first met, they searched for things in common. When she told him she loved camping outdoors, he was overjoyed. His type of camping, however, involved setting up a tent outside a parked car. Karen preferred backpacking deep in the wilderness, a skill she learned as part of Westmont’s Inoculum program. “When I took him backpacking for the first time, he had no idea what he was in for,” she says.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page/public/Karen%20Schmidt%20Jones%203.jpeg" alt="Raising a Nature-Loving Family"/>
        </image><caption/><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...</description></item>