by Learning Lead – Amy Darrell I am not sure when it happened, but I have become a total energy geek. I love hearing about creative ways to produce and use energy. I get positively giddy when I read stories about a company in Scotland developing an inventive way to store energy using abandoned mine shafts or…
by Learning Lead – Paul Whipp Finally the time has come. The time we have all been waiting for. It’s time to start building my boat! I am splitting the build into two blog posts. In this first blog post (1/2), I am going to share how I gathered and prepared supplies and built my…
by Learning Lead – Melinda Munding Most learning experiences would not feel whole and fulfilling without some side steps and mistakes. It is these challenges that really get my brain processing the experience! In my last post, I detailed that we had migrated our worms from the first bin and into the second bin. Using…
By Learning Lead – Melissa Dick As a Learning Lead with Waterlution, Melissa is learning about wild soundscapes by capturing audio recordings and listening. Read about her first soundscape recording experience here. My second soundscape recording and listening activity took place at Lac des Battures, a small lake located on Îles-des-Soeurs in Montréal, Quebec, on…
by Learning Lead- Katie Yantzi It’s taken me a bit longer than I’d hoped to tackle this next mending skill, for a few reasons: I’ve been busy with other life projects (including moving to a new city and home), but I was also a bit intimidated by mending knits. Why exactly? I’m not sure. I’ve…
by Learning Lead – Kristen Tymoshuk Hey everyone! Welcome back to my journey to learn how to fix bicycles. When we left off in blog one, we had just finished assessing the repairs that needed to be done to my bike. To start the repair process, this blog is all about general bike maintenance for…
by Learning Lead- Amy Sinclair I don’t know if you have ever had the chance to touch a sheep. But if you have, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that your hand feels greasy afterward. That greasy feeling is caused by lanolin. Sheep produce lanolin to repel water to keep their body…
by Learning Lead- Joanne Cerdan The Gardening in Small Spaces project continues! In this blog, I will showcase some of the highlights, successes and failures of my gardening journey. I will also show you the Filipinx dish I learned to cook! I’m discovering more and more that I long for “roots” and a connection to…
by Learning Leads – Caden Hebb & Lily Barraclough When we last touched base, we had a raised bed layered inside with newspaper, grass clippings, manure, soil and sticks. This constitutes a “hügelkultur”; a self-fertilizing mound of organic matter on which plants grow. Organic matter can include grass, sticks, manure, soil, coffee grounds, spent tea…
by Learning Lead – Hannah Brown “If you’re new to mushroom foraging, it’s recommended that you don’t actually eat the mushrooms you pick; at least not for the first year or two.” *Disclaimer: Throughout my entire investigation, I need to stress how important it is you do not take my advice at square value. This…