Kat PetersMar 77 minHow to: Achieve the impossibleAlso known as: winter sowing One impossible thing I did was work with a five-year-old on a project that I cared about! I have been...
Kat PetersFeb 221 minOn history: with Gary historian Korry ShepardI had the great good fortune to converse with this historian from Gary, Indiana, in February. 2022. Korry Shepard dropping knowledge at...
Kat PetersNov 29, 20216 minWhatever 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...
Kat PetersNov 15, 20216 min5 ways to connect with your bioregionPlace-based living is something we modern middle class US people can learn to do better. Seen on a recent bike ride near the Little...
Kat PetersOct 4, 20215 minLinking passion, community, and resilience for well-beingAlso published on the Indiana University Healthy IU website, which you can find here. A demonstration plot at Christ Lutheran Church in...
Kat PetersAug 3, 20212 minNew 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...
Kat PetersMay 9, 202112 minNotice, Connect, Find Joy: Costa Rica-US Migratory Birds (transcript)Find the video transcript, full credits, and extra resources for helping you identify and protect migratory birds in your community....
Kat PetersMay 3, 20214 minI return to the place where I was bornI wonder which place migratory birds consider home. I wonder if they don’t even think of the two places as separate. Dipping my feet in...
Kat PetersApr 19, 20216 minUrban gardens in Curridabat: A maternity leave mini-IPWhen 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...
Kat PetersApr 7, 20212 minNew perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Environmental reflections from Living ConnectedAnnouncing an exciting new partnership with Katrina Martich, my friend and environmental engineer / Anunciando una nueva asociación...