Treat the Earth Well

“Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestor. We borrow it from our children.”
Ancient Native American Proverb, quoted in The Green Gardener’s Guide, Joe Lamp’l, Cool Springs Press, 2007

How to Make a Winter Bird List

Here I’m going to tell you how to make a winter bird list for your area. I made a winter bird list for Kansas, you can make one for wherever you live using the same steps. It can be a list for your nature garden, or it can go beyond this.
Why Make a Winter Bird [...]

Win Orangutan Story DVD

This one is for the kids. Enter this give away to win The Orangutan Story, a documentary DVD from the Emmy Award winning Shamu TV’s Saving a Species Series. This give away is part of 3 Days of Green Give Aways.
The Orangutan Story DVD was provided by Busch Gardens. I was given this item through [...]

50 Under $10 Books for Nature Kids

A list of under $10 nature books for kids. As well as seeing nature while playing outdoors kids need to learn about nature from books.
Books prompt the kind of questions which start great nature conversations and help kids learn and place their knowledge in context. Every one of these under $10 books is fun, colorful, [...]

Montessori Great Lessons – all things are connected

“… all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. The child is satisfied, having found the universal center of self in all things.”
Maria Montessori, To [...]