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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...

Kat Peters
Mar 6, 20227 min read


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...

Kat Peters
Feb 21, 20221 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...

Kat Peters
Nov 28, 20216 min read


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...

Kat Peters
Nov 14, 20216 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...

Kat Peters
Oct 4, 20215 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...

Kat Peters
Aug 2, 20212 min read


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....

Kat Peters
May 8, 202112 min read


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...

Kat Peters
May 3, 20214 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...

Kat Peters
Apr 19, 20216 min read


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...

Kat Peters
Apr 7, 20212 min read
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