To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. .. Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
- Alfred Austin, 1835-1913
I have always been in love with the idea of a huge vegetable garden and all the tomatoes and beans and peppers […]

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“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have always loved dandelions. A lawn that is yellow and fuzzy with their blooms is almost magical. When I was little, I believed that if you ever were to find a unicorn, it would almost certainly be in a field of dandelions.
I’m not sure […]

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A child who takes a lunch to school will produce about 70 pounds of garbage every year.
Seventy. Pounds. When I read that, I didn’t believe it and went right away to look it up somewhere else. Yup. The numbers come in at 45-90 pounds per student per year. That’s the weight of a 10 year […]

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The fuss about the consumption of bottled water is getting louder and even some who are not conscious of their personal environmental impact are starting to notice. In short: bottled water is excessively consumptive, polluting, expensive and wasteful. And with the dramatic increases in consumption of bottled water, the overall effects on the environment […]

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Keeping a Nature Journal will help inspire you to deepen your relationship with the Earth, and to develop a greater awareness and caring for the Earth.
- sierraclub.org

Catkins on the clump birch.

Lady’s Mantle growing beneath the cedar.

Magnolia flower.

Wild violets.

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Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You by […]

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