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Heart-shaped lessons from a white-tailed visitor

3 Comments / Gardening, Homeschooling, Homesteading, mammals, Nature Study, Our Backyard Book

It was our first garden on our new homestead and we needed to learn how to deter the deer from dining on our veggies. The corn was getting just tall enough to offer real promise of delicious August meals. And the tomatoes were the size of bright green golf balls, starting to show hints of […]

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Beautiful Imperfections in Nature Studies

8 Comments / amphibians and reptiles, Homeschooling, Insects, Nature Study, Our Backyard Book, The Granite State

Nature Studies have always been an intimate, intricate part of our family. First, as part of our elementary years of homeschooling, but then as a part of a family heirloom that my teen daughters still add to today, almost 2 decades after it all started. Read on if you’d like to know more about our family’s

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