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Sharing What The Land Teaches – ConTEXTing Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Trees, wildflowers, birds,/

bugs, fields. The land teaches me /

much. I want to share.

Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Canoe the Right Thing: Chickamauga Creek Lesson
ByMarnie February 26, 2019April 10, 2019

This isn’t meant to toot my horn or anything. It’s just a reminder: When you’re living out in nature, it’s always good to do the right thing, even if nobody else knows. Case in point? Several days ago, the dirt road to our place flooded. Yesterday, it was still flooded, BUT, it was sunny, so…

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Eco-Activism | Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering | Practical Environmentalism

Earth+Us: Lessons from Braiding Sweetgrass & Pulling Privet
ByMarnie January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

I’m reading “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s about Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants written by a scientist who is also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer teaches botany and ecology at a university several times a week. One morning, she surveyed her 3rd year students, asking them…

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Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Get ‘Er Done: Vashon Island Treehouses Starts Growing
ByDavid Kuhns May 10, 2018May 10, 2018

A New Project: Vashon Island Treehouses My brother Gene Kuhns Jr. has always been a “doer”. With his wife Jan by his side (and often, slightly in front of him), they get more done in a week than many folks get done in a year. That’s why I’m excited and anxious to watch the progress…

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Nature Observation

Cooling Georgia Heat: ImproVerse Prose
ByDavid Kuhns July 4, 2019August 20, 2019

I sit deep in my deciduous and cedar woods, shaded, sweltering in the hot afternoon Georgia heat. The still air, like an open oven, stifles me. I must escape. But just as I start to rise, a cool breeze starts from the creek bottom below, racing across the newly-mown fields. Wind rushes like a cresting…

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Natural Health | Natural Remedies | Nature's Laws | Practical Environmentalism

Water Rapids, Negative Ions, Immune System Boost
ByDavid Kuhns July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

Recently, I relaxed in the water rapids and deep pools of the #WestChickamaugaCreek near my home in Northwest Georgia. It was a typical hot, muggy, sunny Georgia noon, and the cool water called my name. As I floated, wandered and sat in the creek — sometimes only inches deep, sometimes over my head — I…

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Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

If You Look For Mushrooms, Will They Appear?
ByDavid Kuhns May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

It’s a dream to find edible wild food, but you have to really look for mushrooms. Gene and Jan are interested in putting up tree houses on their acreage on Vashon Island, WA, and running a bed and breakfast. They also enjoy foraging for wild food (and creating their own, where possible). Dreaming of oyster…

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