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The Way of the Eco-Warrior">The Way of the Eco-Warrior
By D. CAMERON LAWRENCE
Growing up in southern New England in the 1960s and ’70s—pre-sprawl—I had what many children today do not have: a birthright of outdoor adventure. We opened our doors to a huge, undivided landscape of green fields, tumbling brooks, hummocked marshes and quiet woods. My little brother and I roamed the outdoors like… »
Nature Camp, Nature Walks at Meadow Glen Farm
From Meadow Glen Farm’s Web site
Nature Camp
An exciting summer in the great outdoors is being planned for our 2009 Nature Camp at Meadow Glen Farm. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the fields, woods, pond and lake that surround our farm while becoming junior botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and trekkers. Enrichment studies will focus on… »
ESSAY
All Things Wild and Wonderful:
How a foraged mountain food connected two children
Essay and photos by KAREN DILL
In April, the wild things emerge: Bears crawl from their dens; baby wolves are born while their parents howl at the moon; and mysteriously tender green shoots climb bravely from the ground. To an unsuspecting eye, the tiny foliage may resemble weeds, but to my mountain-bred father, they were supper.
My… »
Common Work
NONFICTION
By DANA WILDSMITH
“As a poet, I hold the most archaic values on earth: the fertility of the soil … the common work of the tribe.”–Gary Snyder
“I think we’re neighbors. Tell me again where you live.” Kathy’s on the phone with me about some community theater business, and I’ve tried twice already to explain where I… »
Food, Love and Ms. Fannie Neal
ESSAY
By MAEGEN NEAL
As a choir of tree frogs and cicadas sang the night’s lullaby, the soft laughter of Fannie Neal’s survivors echoed off the evergreen trees and rusted junk cars. The thickness of a Kentucky summer still hung in the air, perspiring onto the blades of bluegrass and weeds that grew together in a sort of… »
