Yes, I like nature9thApril
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Village Life by Tony Deis on Apr 09, 2009
The other day I had a conversation with a friend who's life is dedicated to tending to our phenomenal greenspaces. He told a story about a city leader who recently made a bold statement, "We need to find less ways to say 'no' and more ways of to say 'yes'." Of late, this is not the first tale I heard of intelligent relationship building overcoming jaded skepticism and the status quo. In the age of failed corporate duplicity we hear more leaders talking about transparency. We find more individuals…
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HomeSteading School Responses2ndApril
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Raising Kids by Tony Deis on Apr 02, 2009
I received many incredible responses from parents about our proposed HomeSteading School. In fact, I was wonderfully inundated with emails. I want to give you a taste of how inspiring some of those letters were. Since the HomeSteading School blog last Thursday there's been a lot of excited feedback about the notion of a school. We may have…
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Raising Kids by Tony Deis on Mar 27, 2009
Whether you home school or not, this blog may be relevant to you. One day I was hanging out with a circle of Trackers staff. We were having pizza that Jason made from his sourdough starter. It was topped with buffalo we recently butchered from a local rancher. I asked the question, how can we provide an immersion experience for kids, not…
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Urban Homesteading by Tony Deis on Mar 26, 2009
While this is the adult programs newsletter, I have to tell you about a new kids summer camp I'm excited very for, Little House in the Big Valley. No matter how old we are, Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books strike a spark in us all. At this camp kids will make…
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Raising Kids by Tony Deis on Mar 20, 2009
What did I do as a teenager? Take tests? Play football? Run for student government? What I really did was spend three to twelve hours a day in my garden on Oatfield Road in Oak Grove. I grew everything you could think of, from wild native plants to the old timey seeds that I bought during that 90's renaissance of nurseries or begged and stole…
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Wilderness Survival by Tony Deis on Mar 18, 2009
At a recent taster day at Lost Valley Education Center the gray sky poured buckets of rain. In the early morning all our instructors looked laconically outside, wondering how new students would fare through the deluge. Tasters are supposed to be about inspiring people. They're the first step in a courting process, one where we see if Trackers…