Runamuk Acres Conservation Farm
Soil-first farming, building health from the ground up!
Okay, so I wasn’t completely honest. I want my own homestead, sure. But I desperately want to break into what is quickly becoming a fast-growing industry. Micro eco-farming. Micro eco-farming is living and growing sustainably on local tracts of land–usually less than 5 acres.I just read Barbara Berst Adam’s book, and while I had known…
There are some great opportunities for scientific involvement this summer, and it’s not too late to get in on it. I like citizen science projects. I think they’re a really fun way to get my family practicing science, and we love the feeling of doing our part to help real scientists. Usually the projects are…
For a long time I’ve wanted to learn how to press plants. I like the idea of creating beautiful framed works of art using pressed flowers and herbs. I had saved two large squares of cardboard for the project, and today I begged some newspaper from my mother-in-law’s recycling bin. I attempted to entice both…
We save all our change for our homeschool field trips. It’s gotten to the point where Summer will fish the coins straight out of his Daddy’s pockets to put in the pickle jar that now serves as a coin-bank. Papa saves his change for the boys too; and between the two jars I rolled a…
Back in October when we decided to make the shift from homeschooling to unschooling, I had no idea how drastically it would change our lives. I hoped it would have a positive impact on our family, but there was no way I could comprehend the full implications of this change; no way of knowing how…
The snows and cold used to come a lot earlier to Maine thirty and fifty years ago, but now, in this time of increased climate change, winter doesn’t seem to really get underway until January and February. I remember my mother’s stories of snow that reached the second-story window, and how she and her brothers…
Maine is fortunate to have a bounty of state parks and public reserved lands. We also have a number of organizations whose only goal is to get the people of Maine outside to enjoy and appreciate this great state and it’s natural wonders. On Saturday, January 29th from 10-3 families can participate in the Mt…
It was originally scheduled to meet last Wednesday night, the 12th of January, but because of a messy Nor’easter last week I had to postpone the first meeting of Somerset Beekeepers to Monday, the 17th. So Monday night we all gathered at the Somerset County University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Skowhegan to establish…
Field trips with a focus on science are a great way for your family to learn more about science in real life. Providing examples of professionals utilizing the tools and processes of science can lead your own children to pursue careers in science, technology, and industry, for which our nation has a growing need. When…
I’ve mentioned it a couple of times in some of my posts, participating in a citizen science program at-home. I also wrote about central Maine’s lack-of citizen science and environmental activism programs. I even started a new blog recently, called Green in Central Maine–hoping to create more opportunity for citizen science where I live. But…