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      Company towns, racial tension, stereotypes, natural beauty, and resilience
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 25
      • 3 min

      Company towns, racial tension, stereotypes, natural beauty, and resilience

      5 things Gary, Indiana and Costa Rica have in common A view of the block where Andrew Means had a contractor company that built quality...
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      Food deserts: Korry Shepard of the Gary Historical Collective
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 4
      • 2 min

      Food deserts: Korry Shepard of the Gary Historical Collective

      In what I hope can be a regular conversation, I got to speak for a second time with Korry Shepard about his ideas for how to address food...
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      More than money
      Kat Peters
      • Dec 6, 2021
      • 8 min

      More than money

      When we give money, we are saying that the world of money is what we value. A few valuable things that aren't money: notes from your...
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      Whatever happened to the actual backwaters?
      Kat Peters
      • Nov 29, 2021
      • 6 min

      Whatever happened to the actual backwaters?

      The water was drained, but I don't believe that all was lost. Around 80 of the 35,000 sandhill cranes stopping over in what used to be...
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      Linking passion, community, and resilience for well-being
      Kat Peters
      • Oct 4, 2021
      • 5 min

      Linking passion, community, and resilience for well-being

      Also published on the Indiana University Healthy IU website, which you can find here. A demonstration plot at Christ Lutheran Church in...
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      The cutting edge in coffee
      Kat Peters
      • Sep 9, 2021
      • 8 min

      The cutting edge in coffee

      A better future is within reach, and one local coffee roaster is leading the way through the direct purchase of high quality specialty...
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      New Backwater is turning 1!
      Kat Peters
      • Aug 3, 2021
      • 2 min

      New Backwater is turning 1!

      My first post on New Backwater was on August 8, 2020. On this last week of the first year, I look back, and look ahead. Soooo many...
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      Learning Cycle: Reading Things
      Kat Peters
      • Jun 1, 2021
      • 4 min

      Learning Cycle: Reading Things

      Need a road map? Pick up some reading on your intended topic in order to help you find your way. Finding his way with an actual map....
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      Urban gardens in Curridabat: A maternity leave mini-IP
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 19, 2021
      • 6 min

      Urban gardens in Curridabat: A maternity leave mini-IP

      When I am not sure how to handle change, I go to my toolkit. Here, a study I did in my neighborhood in Costa Rica to pass the time...
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      Of machetes and solidarity
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 5, 2021
      • 5 min

      Of machetes and solidarity

      Beyond my sleep-stealing babies, I have been thinking about fatigue and solidarity related to other events, both long-term and current. I...
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      Let's look for birds! / ¡Busquemos pájaros!
      Kat Peters
      • Feb 6, 2021
      • 3 min

      Let's look for birds! / ¡Busquemos pájaros!

      It's time for the Great Backyard Bird Count (Feb 12-15, 2021). I'll be spending at least 15 minutes during that time looking for birds...
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      New perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Asi Comemos en Casa recipes
      Kat Peters
      • Jan 25, 2021
      • 4 min

      New perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Asi Comemos en Casa recipes

      Announcing an exciting new partnership with Pri Montano, my friend and amazing home chef / Anunciando una nueva asociación emocionante...
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      We keep going (but we stop to rest, too) / Seguimos, y también descansamos
      Kat Peters
      • Dec 9, 2020
      • 4 min

      We keep going (but we stop to rest, too) / Seguimos, y también descansamos

      Sandhill cranes travel hundreds of miles, but they stop (by the tens of thousands) to socialize, eat, and rest. You and I can go far,...
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      What's a burger worth? Protected lands, the hamburger connection, and “COOL” beef
      Kat Peters
      • Nov 15, 2020
      • 7 min

      What's a burger worth? Protected lands, the hamburger connection, and “COOL” beef

      There’s one issue that has connected our backwater regions for decades, and it hasn’t become less challenging for justice and...
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      Sugar: a little bit that goes a long way
      Kat Peters
      • Nov 10, 2020
      • 8 min

      Sugar: a little bit that goes a long way

      Small blips in the global economy can have big impacts in rural areas and developing countries. Sugar being harvested (left) in...
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      Women, crisis and creativity
      Kat Peters
      • Sep 28, 2020
      • 7 min

      Women, crisis and creativity

      In times of crisis, women’s projects go beyond creative solutions to survival strategies for themselves and their families. Members of...
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      “I believe in the healing power of gardens.”  Trice Booker of Living Green Garden
      Kat Peters
      • Sep 14, 2020
      • 7 min

      “I believe in the healing power of gardens.” Trice Booker of Living Green Garden

      Trice sees gardening as offering simple tools of our past, like time in nature, heirloom varieties, and community connection as solutions...
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      Monitoring: Notes to your future self
      Kat Peters
      • Sep 11, 2020
      • 5 min

      Monitoring: Notes to your future self

      What happens when we look back in history and check the record, the monitoring, that has been done? We might find glimmers of clues as to...
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      Reflections from the backwaters
      Kat Peters
      • Aug 27, 2020
      • 4 min

      Reflections from the backwaters

      In this blog I hope to reflect for myself and share with you some of what I have experienced and learned in all of these marvelous...
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      I'm an intercultural educator, Spanish professor, and former Assistant Director of study abroad in Costa Rica.

       

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