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Links I visit

• 5 Acres and a Dream
• A Growing Tradition
• Big Adventures with Little Buddies
• Casaubon’s Book
• Chelsea Green (My Fav Pub!)
• Cold Antler Farm
• Daphne’s Dandelions
• Doomstead Diary
• Handbook of Nature Study
• Journey Through Art
• Not Dabblin in Normal
• One Straw
• pile of o’melays
• Simple Green Frugal Coop
• Skippy’s Vegetable Garden
• Stony Run Farm
• Subsistence Pattern
• The Archdruid Report
• The Chatelaine’s Keys
• Throwback at Trapper Creek
• Transition Culture

Resources

• How to keep a field journal
• Hinchman's A Trail Through Leaves
• Comstock's Handbook of Nature Study
• Seed Savers Exchange
• Fedco's Seed School
• Backyard Chickens
• Journey North: Migrations

Tools/Toys

• pottery wheel
• pottery studio/workshop
• solar cooker
• chicken run, coop
• outdoor earth oven
• solar battery charger
• solar thermal collector
• rain barrel toilet tank
• hatchet/axe
• air tight food bins
• grain mill
• stainless steel food strainer
• food dehydrator
• potting shed
• bike for Mama

Books we're reading

Birds (link=photo)

• Great Horned Owl
• Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Dark-Eyed Junco
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Red-Bellied Woodpecker
• F Downy Woodpecker
• F Hairy Woodpecker
• Black-capped Chikadee
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• American Crow
• M Yellow House Finch
• M, F Red House Finches
• M, F American Goldfinch
• Carolina Wren
• Orchard Oriole
• Northern Cardinal
• Blue Jay
• American Robin
• Common Grackle (?)
• Tufted Titmouse

Articles

• About
  • Riot Year One: November 08 – November 09
• Author Bio
• Calcium and Other Nutrients in Soil, Water and Plants
• Child’s Play
  • First Puzzles for a Child under Two Years
  • Young Children and Television
• Drawing as it Develops
  • 1. First Drawings of a Very Young Child
  • 2. Circles, and Coloring Books (a Mistake?)
  • 3. More Circles, Graphs and post hoc Naming
  • 4. Naming and Representation
  • 5. Explosion of Color
  • 6. How Toddlers See Our Bodies? Play Dough Experiments
  • A. Children’s Tadpole Drawings: Some Theory
  • B. Tips for Drawing with Very Young Children
  • C. Children’s Drawings: a Bibliography
• Natural Birth
  • 1. Why (Not) a Natural Birth?
  • 2. Pregnant: Dealing With Pain
  • 3. Giving Nature a Place in My Body
  • 4. My Birth Story
• Product Reviews
  • Diapers Review: Seventh Generation, WF 365, gDiapers
  • Green Diapers: SAP, biodegradability, chlorine, woodpulp
• Saving the Planet
  • Manifest
  • WHAT WE DO

Articles Elsewhere

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• (co-)sleeping (5)
• (home)(un)school (14)
• about (2)
• arts/crafts (children's) (101)
• arts/crafts (grown-ups') (57)
• bees (38)
• birds (29)
• books (children's) (25)
• books (grownups') (49)
• chickens (7)
• child development (47)
• child's play (53)
• comic (6)
• community (1)
• compost (19)
• daycare/preschool (5)
• diapers (6)
• discipline (3)
• drawings (childrens') (66)
• emotional development (21)
• family (22)
• food (growing, cooking, preserving) (215)
• Freeze Yer Buns (19)
• future worries (76)
• games and toys (27)
• garden (181)
• garden structures (50)
• herbs (9)
• homestead (140)
• huh? (8)
• imagination-stories (8)
• Independence Days (22)
• journal (8)
• language development (11)
• me elsewhere (11)
• mushrooms (4)
• natural birth (3)
• natural world (111)
• nature study (49)
• nursing (3)
• One Local Summer (7)
• Outdoor Hour (13)
• pain, illness, death (24)
• permaculture (4)
• photographs (16)
• place (22)
• pottery (5)
• pregnancy (3)
• preparedness (5)
• products (baby, kids) (10)
• reading and writing (16)
• Recent Riot Posts (49)
• reduce reuse recycle (61)
• self-knowledge (14)
• skills (14)
• soil (9)
• technology (6)
• television (7)
• The Potboiler (7)
• Thoreau (6)
• Transition (10)
• when she grows up (8)
• whimsy (45)
• Winter Harvest (6)
• working mother (1)

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• July 2010 (5)
• June 2010 (18)
• May 2010 (22)
• April 2010 (18)
• March 2010 (26)
• February 2010 (23)
• January 2010 (27)
• December 2009 (17)
• November 2009 (20)
• October 2009 (22)
• September 2009 (21)
• August 2009 (18)
• July 2009 (14)
• June 2009 (10)
• May 2009 (14)
• April 2009 (16)
• March 2009 (22)
• February 2009 (22)
• January 2009 (23)
• December 2008 (17)
• November 2008 (13)
• October 2008 (21)
• September 2008 (2)
• August 2008 (7)
• July 2008 (6)
• June 2008 (16)
• May 2008 (10)
• April 2008 (3)
• March 2008 (9)
• February 2008 (15)
• January 2008 (14)
• December 2007 (21)
• November 2007 (5)
• October 2007 (18)
• September 2007 (17)
• August 2007 (2)
• July 2007 (12)
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• May 2007 (26)
• April 2007 (17)
• March 2007 (2)

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