How to: Achieve the impossible
Also 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...
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Kat Peters
- Feb 21
- 1 min
On history: with Gary historian Korry Shepard
I had the great good fortune to converse with this historian from Gary, Indiana, in February. 2022. Korry Shepard dropping knowledge at...
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Kat Peters
- Nov 28, 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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Kat Peters
- Nov 14, 2021
- 6 min
5 ways to connect with your bioregion
Place-based living is something we modern middle class US people can learn to do better. Seen on a recent bike ride near the Little...
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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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Kat Peters
- Aug 2, 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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Kat Peters
- May 8, 2021
- 12 min
Notice, 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....
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Kat Peters
- May 3, 2021
- 4 min
I return to the place where I was born
I 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...
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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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Kat Peters
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
New perk for subscribers to New Backwater: Environmental reflections from Living Connected
Announcing an exciting new partnership with Katrina Martich, my friend and environmental engineer / Anunciando una nueva asociación...
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