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Cyanotype Sun Prints!

As Summer wanes, I thought it may be fun to soak up some sun by making Cyanotype Prints! This method of “printing” is an easy and striking way to capture your nature collection. This is a great project for kids, but it’s just as fun 

Practicing Naturalists and Other Notes on Nature

A Reason and Season for Nature School I’ve been hinting and sharing tidbits all Summer about the nature observation project that the kids and I have been practicing. This project emerged from my desire to do better at studying and connecting with the natural world, 

Everyday Woolgathering: Bone Fragment

So, I spent most of yesterday morning praying to the Creative Gods for a sign telling me how to better shape my business. Creatively, I am pursuing a lot of different projects, and I think it’s too many directions to market effectively. It’s SUPER hard for me 

Everyday Woolgathering: Damselflies and Mosquito Clouds

Have you ever walked into a Mosquito Cloud?  Are these the boys flying in circles while the women mosquitoes go out and get blood? This is what I think about everytime I walk through a particular mosquito cloud that hovers over the path  to my 

Everyday Woolgathering: Chicory

The kids and I have been practicing being naturalists this Summer. We have found this structure, designed by Claire Leslie in The Nature Connection, to be a useful means for capturing a moment or phenomenon of a day. Since I am obsessed with marking time and 

Aldo Leopold Benches

Well, it was challenging to finish varnishing these benches with all of the rain, and then even more rain prevented us from getting them in the garden! But, today, we finally cleared spaces for them in the forest garden, and now they are part bench-part 

The Long Haul of Forest Gardening

Two years ago Pat started to transform a grassy meadow near the barn into a forest garden.  I couldn’t explain it at the time, but I was struggling with our altering the natural environment. (Turns out, it would be the first of many projects that