Category: General
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Craft is good for your Health
An article in The Conversation explores the benefits of practicing craft for a healthier life with a similar theme and sources to my previous blog Spooncarving- A Gateway Drug to pro-environmental behaviour and landscape advocacy?
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Spooncarving- a ‘gateway drug’ to pro-environmental behaviour and landscape advocacy?
We’ve had regularly good class sizes (5-6 people) for the four spoon carving workshops I have delivered here as part of the Ontario Rural Skills Network and interest doesn’t seem to be abating. SpoonfestUK in August 2019 is sold out as well. I cannot keep up with the number of wonderful ‘Spoon People’ out…
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Life IN the hedge- toward a monitoring programme for Ontario’s hedgerows (Earth Day 2019)
Yesterday- Earth Day 2019- felt like the warmest day yet this Spring here in Ontario- a balmy 19 degrees, a perfect day to get started on the monitoring programme for our Mount Wolfe Farm hedgerows. We planted two hedgerows here at the farm in 2017 and 2018. The 2017 hedge was started in the…
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Beyond Knowing Nature – 5 Pathways to Nature Connection
Originally posted on Finding Nature: Owing to the benefits to both human and nature’s well-being, and wide spread disconnection, a connection with nature is something many people and organisations are keen to increase. So there is a need to know how best to do this. We’ve already developed specific interventions, such as 3 good things…
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Hedgerows and network models: nodes, edges and hedges
Last night I tuned into Professor Danielle Basset‘s Sante Fe Institute Community Lecture called Networks Thinking Themselves. The talk had many many inspirational moments but one I would briefly like to share is this harmony between the language used to describe elements of network structure and a network close to my heart: hedgerows. In the…
James T Jones 