Category: Discovering Nature
Gardening – It’s Like Watching Water Boil, But More Exciting
| May 10, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Food, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
I’m so glad I decided to plant the sunflower seeds the same day as the tomato plants, because for days and days nothing happened. We opened the growing thingy each day to find nothing, except one random weed that popped it’s head out. I was beginning to think the Heinz Grow Your Own tomato plants…
Getting Into Gardening
| May 5, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 1 - 2, 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Playful Parenting, Projects, Raising Conscious Children |
For the last two years, I have had the worst luck with my garden. What pregnancy didn’t take out of me, sickness and a newborn did, and then, to top it off it rained so much last year that even my mint died. Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill mint?…
Free And Almost Free Resources For Outdoor Activities In The UK
| March 8, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 2 - 3 years, 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Reading and Resources |
I know in this weather I’d much rather be snuggled up under a sofa reading a book than stomping around cold and damp countryside with a baby and toddler in tow – or more realistically, chasing down a toddler while the baby and I try to keep up. Unfortunately, however, my children aren’t game for…
Pick Your Own And Eat It
| August 14, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Carnival of Natural Parenting, Cooking, Discovering Nature, Food, Foraging for Food, Incidental Learning, Kids in the Kitchen, Seasonal Cooking, Summer |
Welcome to the August 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Farmer’s Markets
How To: Make Bird Feeders For The Garden
| May 17, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under 2 - 3 years, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World |
It’s spring time and while the weather is horrible and Ameli is young, I see no reason why not to get her as involved in nature as possible. We have a garden which is pretty small and currently overgrown, but pretty full of animals – if by animals you’ll accept squirrels, a variety of birds…
Autumn in England
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
There are many things about life and living in the UK that it seems, even after eight years, that I will just never get on board with. There are things that make me realise painfully, that this is not home. (Home isn’t home any more either, but at least it’s familiar.) But there is something…
Growing In The Outdoors: Plants And People
| May 10, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Carnival of Natural Parenting, Discovering Nature, Foraging for Food, Home Education, Incidental Learning |
So, here’s something you didn’t know about me: I don’t have green fingers, but my heart does. It’s the classic battle between doing and knowing, really. Â I love the thought of a beautiful garden, a veggie patch, a herb garden, some sweet peas filling spring with their scent, and roses to beautify the view outside…
Foraging For Food – The Rules
| April 10, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Discovering Nature, Food, Foraging for Food, Incidental Learning |
Last year I became really interested in food foraging, or ‘Invisible Food‘ – food from plants most of us don’t even notice. We began attending Invisible Food Walks in London, which really opened my eyes to what there is around us – even in the very urban parts of the world.
Becoming a mother has changed me in more ways than I knew possible. I am passionate today about things I’d never heard of two years ago. I also spend a lot more time around animals than I ever did before, since we’ve tried to get Ameli outdoors and into nature as much as possible.
Over the last two years I’ve started a ‘collection’ of sorts, of photographs I’ve taken of wild animals practicing ‘attachment parenting’. These are the best I have so far, but I intend to extend my collection whenever I have the opportunity.
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