Day 13 of the Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild, and we have been so busy doing "wild things" that sitting at the computer writing is the last thing on our minds! Only when the day is done, and the young "wild things" are themselves settled in to their quiet evening activities do I feel that I can justify some "quite time" on the machine that so often distracts me from the wild. I find myself resenting the fact that I am now sitting here, with the children but alone---typing while they chat and pr...
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AS we enter the seventh day of June, I plan to spend the day working with other volunteers and staff from one of our local natural resource management groups. We will be smoking and heating seed from native plants that will be used to re-vegetate a farm which has been degraded by years of farming. The area to be planted is alongside a creek which leads in to the Stokes Inlet, an estuary within the Stokes Inlet National Park. The location for this exercise is my family's small farm overlooking...
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I live in a part of the world which has beaches regarded as some of the best in the world: we are an hours drive from the magnificent Great Western Woodlands to our north; the rich in biodiversity Fitzgerald biosphere lies to our west; we bathe in the cool waters of the Southern Ocean 20 minutes away to our south, and to the east of us lies the Nullarbor Plain, the vast expanse of limestone based country separating Western Australia from the other states of our vast country. So why did I feel...
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On my bed side table there is always a pile of books, often half read as my ability to process them has waned considerably with the advent of children. Among them there are always some that have really made me think; made me cross, or motivated me to do something better than we are already doing it.

This week, I cleared off the table three books, two to put back on my own shelves, another destined for the local library. All are worth a look. I also borrowed a fourth, one which has me riveted a...
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Shopping with Conscience

Grocery shopping used to be so easy.

As a student, long before a husband and children, living on part-time work and a meager student allowance it was a case of eat what you could afford to buy: Then it got more complicated. Full-time work meant grocery shopping was slotted into a limited timetable, even though the available expenditure may have improved. A partner meant catering for their needs as well (more meat and beer!); the a...

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