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May 21, 20226 min read

How To Prevent Children From Having Nature Blindness

For most of my childhood I lived with my grandparents. Long before edible landscapes became fashionable, a large chunk of my...

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Dec 21, 20213 min read

What a Mushroom Eating Squirrel Teaches Us About Nature

After a rainy spell a couple weeks ago, mushrooms appeared in a section of my rewilded yard. About a week later I started noticing...

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Dec 17, 20214 min read

The Future is Dependent on Connecting Children to Nature Every Day

"Today’s children, growing up on lawns and pavements, will not even have nostalgia to guide them, and soon the animals will be not only...

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Mar 16, 20213 min read

We Can Teach Our Children How to Interact with Nature One Squirrel, Earthworm and Ladybug at a Time

OR Teaching Our Children How to Appreciate Nature Using the Peter Parker Principle. I was in earshot of hearing a neighbor’s young child...