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When the Earth is Sick

August 27, 2020 by Kate Walter

Corn fields in the heartland, toxic to wildlife

Since the spring flooding in the Missouri/Mississippi watershed, I have been haunted by an image I saw as a televised news flash: a farmer, a clean-cut white man in work clothes, standing on sorely cracked red clay ground. The news story was about flooding, from the picture we were to see that the farmer lost…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, Sustainability Tagged With: coronavirus, health, illness, organic, pandemic

In These Times – A Window for Healthy Changes

April 26, 2020 by Kate Walter

I remember one day in a Waldorf school in a big city where I worked as a class teacher, finding my way down long hallways and flights of stairs to a basement room, with a door, that held a couch, a bookshelf, and a small table with coffee supplies. A colleague was sitting on the…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, Education, Farming, History

SPRING while homebound

March 23, 2020 by Kate Walter

  The daffodils are in full bloom, and that means it is time to get the garden ready to plant. Some weeks ago Michael tilled leaves into the beds of rich red clay that we are enticing along on the journey to rich brown humus.  Then he hauled wheelbarrow load upon wheelbarrow load of compost…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty, Conservation, Education, Farming, Food, Gardens, Horse

A Glance into the World of Gourds

July 5, 2019 by Michael Wright

  My interest in gourds began when I was introduced to the axatse, a rhythm instrument used in West African drumming ensembles. The axatse is a dried gourd that has been emptied of its seeds and covered in netting with small shells attached. When the gourd is shaken, the shells rattle and make a loud…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Art, Articles, Conservation, Craft, Education, Farming, Gardens, The Crows Nest, Uncategorized Tagged With: Michael Wright

BACK FORTY REPORT

September 12, 2018 by Kate Walter

Afternoons I wear many hats, but mornings I get to be a farmer. The job pays nothing, indeed it costs money, but the rewards are priceless. Yesterday, glimmery, gloriously light and cool, and the sun smiled on the work of many spiders.   They must have been working all night, creating mystical magical receivers in…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Art, Conservation, Education, Farming, Horse, Uncategorized

The Rule of Law

August 29, 2018 by Kate Walter

Environmental Lawyers are at work in 2018 to exercise and strengthen the laws that protect earth.   A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. –Benjamin Franklin  I’ve heard a lot of lawyer jokes. I’ve read some history and enjoyed conversation with friends and family who practice law, and I know…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Conservation, History, Sustainability, Water

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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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