Art and Literature

July 27th, 2023

5-6 PM ET

Bishop Educational Gardens

13200 Little Cola Rd., Rockbridge, OH 43149

Hosted by SE Ohio WOW

 

Join us as we learn how to document different aspects of nature and dive into the phenology of plants. We will also be learning about cyanotyping also known as sun printing. All are welcome.

 

Space is limited and registration is REQUIRED for this FREE program.

Friday, April 28

 5:00-7:00pm ET

Bengel Wildlife Center, 6380 Drumheller Road, Bath, MI 48808

Last week, I listened to an audio book from my local library titled, The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, best-selling authors of The Confidence Code.

This book is written for teens and pre-teen girls, but it is also written for moms and other superhero women who remember the struggles of their own teen years and want to support the girls in their lives. I even found some take-home lessons for myself as a grown-up, confident woman.

Save the Date!

More details at www.DelawareHighlands.org/watw

This past September marked the 5th Women and Their Woods Educational Retreat hosted by the Delaware Highlands Conservancy. The event this year was held at the Highlights Family Foundation's Workshop Facility in scenic Wayne County, PA.

In 2008, I helped set up an 

The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors (Viking) by David George Haskell

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Penguin) by David George Haskell

--by Jois Child
"The early leaves surprise me... "

The forest is an inspiring place. Enjoy this poem by Cindy Iberg, Pennsylvania Forest Landowner

Guest Writer: Mary Hightower, Cooperative Extension Service
U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, [email protected]

Do knives, spoons in seeds and wooly bear stripes translate into an accurate winter forecast?

It makes perfect sense to heat with wood. We harvest from within a 10-mile radius of our home. We remove wood from the national forest, from fire-suppressed choked stands full of dead standing and dead downed lodgepole pine. This is forest restoration at it’s most sustainable.