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Kat Peters
Apr 4, 20222 min read
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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Kat Peters
Dec 6, 20218 min read
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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Kat Peters
Nov 28, 20216 min read
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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Kat Peters
Oct 4, 20215 min read
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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Kat Peters
Sep 9, 20218 min read
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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Kat Peters
Aug 2, 20212 min read
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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Kat Peters
May 31, 20214 min read
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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Kat Peters
Apr 19, 20216 min read
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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Kat Peters
Apr 5, 20215 min read
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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Kat Peters
Feb 6, 20213 min read
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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Kat Peters
Jan 25, 20214 min read
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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Kat Peters
Dec 8, 20204 min read
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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Kat Peters
Nov 15, 20207 min read
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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Kat Peters
Nov 9, 20208 min read
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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Kat Peters
Sep 27, 20207 min read
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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Kat Peters
Sep 14, 20207 min read
“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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Kat Peters
Sep 10, 20205 min read
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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Kat Peters
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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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