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A Drop of Water and Another and Another

December 11, 2013 by Kate Walter

I started painting pictures of the Mississippi River when I was living in Canada.  Always a northerner,  I felt at home in Canada as long as I stayed within breathing distance of the mists off the Great Lakes, and I became familiar with the names and histories of the great rivers of Canada.  I learned…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Painting, Water Tagged With: art, artist, fine art, gallery, Kate Walter, mississippi, oil painting, painting, river, rivers, water

Farm Festival at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood

December 6, 2013 by Kate Walter

When We Grow Our Food, Our Community Grows November in Tucson, Arizona, signals a change in season.  The intense summer sun has relaxed, and while we wait for the winter rains, people, plants and animals reach a place of contented wellbeing.  We find joy in the warm soft brightness of an autumn day in the desert.  …READ MORE >

Filed Under: Education, Farming, Festival, History, Sustainability Tagged With: arizona, autumn, desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, education, garden, irrigation, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, renewable, resources, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban farming, urban sustainability, water

A Visit to Panther Peak Bindery

November 4, 2013 by Kate Walter

   Mark Andersson greeted us at the door of Panther Peak Bindery, smiling a welcome as we pulled into the parking yard of his workshop.  We emerged from vehicles, a seventh grade class from the Tucson Waldorf School, driven and accompanied by four adults, already enjoying our field trip of exploration having just driven through a…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Books, Craft, Small Business Tagged With: artistry, bookbinding, books, craft, craftsmanship, history, restoration, tucson

Building Compost Piles at River Road Gardens

October 18, 2013 by Michael Wright

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 >

Filed Under: Farming, Sustainability

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What the Kids Are Up To These Days

October 2, 2013 by Leo Cox

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 >

Filed Under: Small Business, Sustainability Tagged With: atlanta, barry paull, compost, compost kids, david paull, entrepreneur, garbage, leo cox, organic, renewable, resources, small business, sustainability, urban sustainability, young, youth

Amy Crown: Fairy Tales for Brave Hearts

July 1, 2013 by Kate Walter

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 >

Filed Under: Children, Education, History, Speech and Drama, Storytelling

Day is Done

January 17, 2013 by Michael Wright

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 >

Filed Under: Music, Small Business

Who Speaks? Hans Pusch and Practicing the Spoken Word

September 1, 2012 by Kate Walter

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 >

Filed Under: Education, Speech and Drama

Kathryn Ashley-Wright and Ewetopia Fiber Shop

January 9, 2012 by Kate Walter

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 >

Filed Under: Fiber, Small Business

Rosa’s Quilts

January 1, 2012 by Michael Wright

Rosa's Quilt - Fans

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 >

Filed Under: History, Textiles

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Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

Beechnuts

Each morning on the way to the barn we walk under the hanging limbs of the great beech tree that stands by the corner of our house. Names and dates carved long ago on the smooth, gray trunk are dark and distorted, barely legible. The tremendous number of beechnuts that grow on a tree this…READ MORE >

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