1 large butternut squash given as a gift from my Grandma and also Cora’s Great-Grandma 4 organic carrots 1 small local onion 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon better than bouillon tap water from Old Town, Maine a little organic lowfat plain yogurt Rice and Beans 3 cups organic short brown rice 1 can of […]
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 with old and new friends. “For homeschool families, Summer begins in September,” says John Picone, a Wassookeag dad. To honor this special time for family, Wassookeag launches two weeks after the regular academic year. Woohoo! Â
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Forging the Future representative Michael Katchen of Franklin Furnace presented the “Future of the Present” at the Society of American Archivists in San Francisco in August 2008. Michael focused on the coalition’s plans for combining folksonomy and taxonomy vocabularies.
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How to talk with plants “Sometimes it is not easy to make contact with a plant. It takes being very open but also, I believe, the plant must know that I mean it no harm. It is important that the plant knows I respect it.”
From Rogers Farm newsletter: Tuesday we received a group of intelligent, thoughtful, and incredibly enjoyable kids from Wassookeag home school’s summer program,
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More people than ever will be able to access and contribute to academic research and development, thanks to tools built by Still Water faculty and Fellows to help creative thinkers share their work. Recently showcased at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and soon to appear in
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Still Water’s living-learning center on Chapel Street, LongGreenHouse, has been exploring the intersection between Native culture and Permaculture with students from many walks of life. In July thirty students from the university’s Upward Bound program attended Joline Blais’ workshops on greenhouses and plant guilds. Meanwhile kids from LongGreenHouse’s Wassookeag school have been busy too: in
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Upward Bound students at UMaine joined us at LongGreenHouse through July to re-connect to the Earth via permaculture gardening.
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Wassookeag launched their Summer permaculture & craft program today, which will run through the summer on Tuesdays 10-3 pm.
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Over forty authors from the National Poetry Foundation’s conference on poetry of the seventies have published their work using a new Still Water tool that reveals connections among different peoples’ writing. Now poets and poetry scholars at other universities appear to be jumping on the bandwagon. Who knew that “1973” and “John Ashbery” were on
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