April 21, 2015 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 4
What makes a seed sprout? Warmth and water make the seed swell and split. Tiny roots grow downward as shoots grow upward trying to reach the light. Not only do the roots help to stabilize the plant and keep it…
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April 20, 2015 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 5
Faith in a Seed Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to…
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April 13, 2015 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 18
What We Learned From Our First Garden 1. Get bigger tomato cages. The tomatoes get a lot bigger and heavier than you think they will. 2. Plan ahead a little bit. We started the first garden Mother’s Day weekend 2011,…
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January 29, 2015 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 0
Winter nature study is just as fun and interesting as any other season, and getting outside in the crisp, cool weather is just the thing to cure the winter-blahs. All you have to do is head outside to find something…
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December 11, 2014 DIY, Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 6
Making journals from scratch My boys have been using blank sketchbooks as nature journals, but often, we find that they get too full before they are finished. Because the boys add lots of extra items besides drawings, like photos, specimens (leaves, dried…
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December 8, 2014 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 6
Even if it’s really cold outside, you can still enjoy nature study projects in the winter. So, pull out your nature journals, and bundle up! It’s time to go explore what’s outside in the winter world. 1. Fill up the…
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September 21, 2014 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 0
If you’ve been following our adventures with our hens, I showed off their new digs in my posts: Back Porch Chicken Coop Tour and Chicken Coop Tour: Surprise Inside! Now, I’d like to show you our chicken playground. The girls have a new sand…
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August 12, 2014 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 0
I’m on a quest to incorporate more outside play into our school days this year. Even though my kids are getting older, there’s always a benefit to going outside and expending some energy. With schoolwork, media, and Minecraft taking so…
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July 30, 2014 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 0
This humongous spider has a nice little hidey hole in our flower bed. We found out some cool stuff about it when we started investigating to find out what it is: Carolina Wolf Spider (Hogna carolinensis) Largest wolf spider in…
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July 15, 2014 Home Keeping, Outdoor Play 2
Did you see our new chicken coop reveal? Check out this post for part one of the coop tour! Now that you’ve seen the basics, let us show you around a bit! Amadeus (Ah-mee) is happy you’re here! Come on in…
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