https://www.hannahharder.com/blogBLOG RSSSun, 03 Sep 2023 02:47:32 GMTSun, 03 Sep 2023 02:47:32 GMThttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/where-to-find-me-these-daysHello, besides archived posts, my new homepage for ongoing writing content is:https://ko-fi.com/hannahhardernaturePlease support me there exploring permaculture, gardening, sustainability, and nature photos alongside research on current science issues, avoiding toxins, allergy chronic diseases, and patient advocacy.You can also find me through @hannahharder on SubStack.Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:39:53https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/where-to-find-me-these-dayshttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/creating-a-farm-city-a-responsive-book-reviewArchived from Cheaper Nuggets. Recently, kind of by accident, I had the pleasure of discovering and meeting Novella Carpenter [you can also find her blog here.  I was so impressed with her book Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and can't wait to visit and revisit her new book The Essential Urban Farmer. I was impressed at her poetry and honesty about the realities of raising and butchering animals. And the whole thing combined with my reading of Green Metropolis had me wishing forTue, 05 Sep 2023 19:26:23https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/creating-a-farm-city-a-responsive-book-reviewhttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/prayers-fluttering-sputtering-byhttps://shop.monarchwatch.org/product/bicycling-with-butterflies/mw101First published on Cheaper Nuggets blog on Oct 3 2012Did you see it? Right under your window this week little orange and black prayer flags are fluttering by. These beings, seemingly more fragile than a piece of paper are flapping over and over again, unbelievably, one beat at a time, till they reach their pilgrimage up to 3,000 miles away- that birthplace where their great great grandparents started out last spring.Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:21:13https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/prayers-fluttering-sputtering-byhttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/blue-skies-nothing-but-blue-skiesArchived from Cheaper Nuggets. Blue jays. Blue birds. Blue bonnets. Blue skies that seem to go on forever. And occasionally, very occasionally, blueberries in Oklahoma. These are some of the things that color my world. Berry picking is such a delight. But perhaps even more so, when you realize how hard it is for these little guys, the underdog, the bottom race horse, the low man on some proverbial mid-west agricultural totem pole to get here.No doubt, this climate is rough. Last year overWed, 06 Sep 2023 14:31:40https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/blue-skies-nothing-but-blue-skieshttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/the-year-of-the-rabbit-or-go-fishArchived. Originally published on Cheaper Nuggets on September 22, 2012. On the other side of adorable baby farm animals is usually someone's dinner.Several places are discussing this week some grim prospects for farmers, animals, and food prices for next year. 2012 was  considered to be the worst drought since the 1930s in much of the mid-west, according to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Drought Report (link no longer available). The grain that was intended to beTue, 05 Sep 2023 19:13:01https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/the-year-of-the-rabbit-or-go-fishhttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/welcome-to-our-blog-but-what-is-it"Go to the fair...you will find that the conditions at a fair will surpass your wildest dreams." E.B. White Charlotte's WebFor most of the two days before my son's kindergarten class went to the fair he reminded me, "I am not going to school. I am not going to the fair. There will be a lot of animals there. They stink. Bad. I do not want to smell them."Geesh. Just what every environmental educatin' nature lovin' mother wants to hear. Well he went. And after getting to hold the flailingSun, 03 Sep 2023 02:41:27https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/welcome-to-our-blog-but-what-is-ithttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/why-your-titles-should-be-no-longer-than-thisBy Hannah HarderIt was a grueling hot day, the kind where you step out of the car and sweat beads on your lip, when we went to pick peaches in mid July. I had hoped yearned for blackberries, but although the guides said they should be in season, there were none to be found. They had either shriveled or been knocked over by the recent golf ball to softball-sized hail. Farming is not for the faint of heart.So my sons and I got out, sacks in hand at Berry Creek Farm [Still there in 2023!].Sun, 03 Sep 2023 02:05:06https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/why-your-titles-should-be-no-longer-than-thishttps://www.hannahharder.com/blog/6-top-tips-for-a-tip-top-blogBy Hannah Harder(archived from Cheaper Nuggets. Excerpted)From 2012 - 2020 I wrote sometimes on a blog , "of the swashbuckling tales about one eco-mom's shortcomings and successes in getting her family to eat and learn about sustainable local sourced food." However, lots of life happened, I developed an immune/allergy disease, cooking around allergies became a lot more complicated and writing about food became not as fun, and *let's normalize that sometimes life with young kids is just equalSun, 03 Sep 2023 01:38:17https://www.hannahharder.com/blog/6-top-tips-for-a-tip-top-blog