Vernal Pools

Visit a vernal pool and experience all the fragility, resiliency and miraculousness of life coming to life on the blue/green/brown planet Earth. Vernal pools are temporary, or ephemeral bodies of…

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The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown's  classic story of a mother's willingness to go to any lengths to care for her child communicates a profound sense of love, caring, and kindness. This story…

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April 2018 Children in Nature

Mary Holland in her essential book for New England naturalists, Naturally Curious, describes April as the month of transformations. The earth thaws and the world begins to turn green. Birds…

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Composting Fever

This week's stories are both about composting. Oftentimes we see the discontinuities between human beings and the natural world. But if we look at how the natural world recycles dead…

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