Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium or Chrysanthemum parthenium)
Fleabane (Erigeron)
Golden Chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Elecampane (Inula helenium)
Mashmallow (Althaea officinalis)
Echinacea
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Challenges
A Look See
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Bees
Links I visit
- 5 Acres and a Dream
- A Garden for the House
- Bridgman Pottery
- Casaubon’s Book
- Chelsea Green (My Fav Pub!)
- Cold Antler Farm
- escleali
- Journey Through Art
- Nature Memories
- Not Dabblin in Normal
- Root Simple
- Scintillating Speck
- Simple Green Frugal Coop
- Stony Run Farm
- The Archdruid Report
- The Automatic Earth
- The Contrary Farmer
- The Door Garden
- The Roost
- Three and a Third Homestead
- Transition Culture
- Viridian (bluish-green)
- Weather Underground
- Wit's End
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 thermal collector
- rain barrel toilet tank
- hatchet/axe
- air tight food bins
- stainless steel food strainer
- small solar car
- 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
- Apothecary Inventory
- Author Bio
- Calcium and Other Nutrients in Soil, Water and Plants
- Child’s Play
- 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
- Herbs Growing in the Garden
- Natural Birth
- Product Reviews
- Saving the Planet
- The Skinny on Honey, Propolis and Pollen
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