I love homeschooling for many reasons, but this one is definitely at the top of the list. I love that on a gorgeous fall day, we have the freedom to spend it all outside. Everyone agrees, children (and adults alike) need to spend more time in nature. Books have been written about it (like this [...]
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When the sun is shining (and when it’s not), we are outside learning.
Posted in children, education, fall, family, farm, home, tagged autumn, family, home, homeschooling, mother, nature study, unschooling on November 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Blog For Food Campaign
Posted in community, cooking, education, food bank, food saftey, gardening, health, hunger, nutrition on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Because our farm is young and because we started the whole thing coming off of five years of living on a single meager income, whenever we make arrangements to donate to the food bank, Andre always jokes that it is the needy helping the needy. Luckily, we aren’t needy in the food department, being able [...]
It takes a village to build a farm…
Posted in community, education, Halloween, potluck, winter on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This past week flew by in a flurry of activity, and unlike the feeling we often have after having a lot of extra curricular activities–the kind of tired, needing to withdraw back into the warm, fuzzy boundaries of our farm to recover from the energy mounted to be social feeling—we came into this week refreshed. [...]
Hope for the Future
Posted in children, education, election, politics on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two things have been at the forefront of our minds this last week, two things that we hope have the potential to affect the future…for the better. Politics is something often talked about in our home, but not something I ever feel inclined to talk about on this front or even with many friends. It [...]
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