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Getting Out the Word

February 1, 2014 by Kate Walter

Letters, the foundation of our literacy, the beginnings of our intellectual technology, lead the way in the study of history and art, traditions of the intellectual life of people on earth. The western Roman alphabet, A to Z, reached a design pinnacle with 23 letters in second century Rome. For 2000 years the identifying shape,…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Books, Craft, Education, History Tagged With: alphabet, craftsmanship, letterpress, printing

11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta – A Neighborhood Event

December 28, 2013 by Michael Wright

Nov 26, 13 Pedaling quietly down tree lined streets in the crisp autumn morning, we round the corner into Dunbar/Spring Community Park and meet the sounds of gasoline engines driving mills grinding mesquite pods. It is the 11th Annual Mesquite Milling, Pancake Brunch, & Fiesta at the Dunbar Spring Community Garden, Orchard and Mini Nature park in…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens Tagged With: desert, desert agriculture, desert farming, farming, mesquite, Michael Wright, neighborhood, tucson, urban sustainability

Celebrating Local Food, Celebrating the Mission Garden

December 19, 2013 by Kate Walter

Being a food explorer in the southwest can be a demanding job, and on Saturday, November 9, there was more than one community festival calling us. Leaving Las Milpitas de Cottonwood, we headed north, traveling a couple miles to reach the party at the Mission Garden to celebrate the November issue of Edible Baja. Published…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens, History, Music, Seeds, Sustainability Tagged With: desert, food, garden, history, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban sustainability

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

Urban Sustainability and Business
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

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by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

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 >

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