Tag: Community

  • The Schoolhouse in the Woods: An Earth Day Long Read

    The Schoolhouse in the Woods: An Earth Day Long Read

    Happy Earth Day! Despite my best intentions for a monthly long blog this is only my second of 2023!  This wasn’t intended as an Earth Day blog, but its seems apt to be publishing this today as a story about connection to place, love of natural landscape through art and community, and renewal. I have…

  • The Certainty Merchants

    In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…

  • The Ontario Rural Skills Network finds a new home at Mount Wolfe Farm: Poppa’s Workshop. Just needs a tidy.

    The Ontario Rural Skills Network finds a new home at Mount Wolfe Farm: Poppa’s Workshop. Just needs a tidy.

    A major frustration to putting on any outdoor workshops this time of year is the inclemency of the weather. The site where we held our first spoon-carving workshop in September last year  is now under a thin blanket of snow (which is thickening even as i write!) and the temperature with wind chill is  -4…