Urban farmers Jon McNamara and Emily Mabry operate River Road Gardens, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project on the campus of the Tucson Waldorf School. The multiple beds of Jon and Emily’s farm lie on the south side of the school property, alongside a busy county road that is the major thoroughfare on the north…READ MORE >
Urban Sustainability and Business
What the Kids Are Up To These Days
It’s 6:00 am on a Wednesday. Barry Paull is getting ready for another full day. Wednesday is always the longest day for Compostwheels drivers, as that is the day we have scheduled the longest of our pick-up routes through metro Atlanta. As Barry eats breakfast he checks the primary Compostwheels email one last time to…READ MORE >
Amy Crown: Fairy Tales for Brave Hearts
The words “fairy tale” evoke different feelings for different people. Many of those feelings meld memories from childhood with considerations of literature and academic definitions, and the memories come with images – from the favorite images in favorite books through the moving pictures of technological media and back around to the very personal pictures that…READ MORE >
Day is Done
We appreciate the response to the cd Day Is Done. The idea arose three and a half years ago with the birth of our first grandchild and finally got off the ground with the birth of our second—lullabies. Two of the songs, “The Riddle Song” and “All the Pretty Little Horses”, were recorded in…READ MORE >
Who Speaks? Hans Pusch and Practicing the Spoken Word
It has been my good fortune working with Waldorf Education to experience inspiration in classes devoted to artistic, pedagogic and therapeutic speech for teachers. I was a grateful student in those sessions, presented at various times by more than one excellent teacher who helped us with exercises in speaking, a fundamental classroom activity. Those speech…READ MORE >
Kathryn Ashley-Wright and Ewetopia Fiber Shop
As a young girl, Kathryn Ashley-Wright moved with her mother Lisa Ashley from New York to Wisconsin where farm life became their life, and Kathryn learned to spin wool on her mother’s wheel. She learned to knit at Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School, and later as a student at the University of Wisconsin she studied rural…READ MORE >
Rosa’s Quilts
Rosa Smiley was born in 1901 in southern Kentucky. Her father was a farmer and a banjo player. She learned the skills of cooking, sewing, planting, harvesting, and preserving food at an early age, and spent most of her life close to the red clay, rocky land along the backwaters of the Cumberland River. …READ MORE >