Resources
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Imagining City in a Forest
How might our imaginations help dream into being other possible worlds? Dream into being a City in a Forest? We've begun exploring this question as we collaborate with community to grow Little Forests. This is one experiment for imagining. -
Junior Non-Fiction that loves Trees, Forests and the Natural World
Here are some junior non-fiction titles that deepen our love for and relationship with Trees, Forests and the Natural World.
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Picture Books that love Trees, Forests and the Natural World
Picture books that explore Trees, Forests and the Natural World with links to the KFPL Library Catalogue and read-alouds. -
Greening Schoolyards America- Resources for Teachers
Last year, Karen Dobrucki, Green Project Team Leader with the Toronto District School Board, introduced me to this important group working in the United States to bring trees to schoolyards... -
Stewarding the forest
Learning from Indigenous Knowledge, our approach to stewardship rests on a foundation of relationality. Our role, as humans, within the little forest community is to help maintain an ecological balance. -
Conversations with land, trees, and non-human others
How do we learn to listen to the land, shifting from human-centred to earth-centred ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world? What are some relational practices that connect us with the kinship that surrounds us, helping us see ourselves within a web of relations? How might we open our senses, beginning to learn the language of trees, birds, and insects? We've compiled this list of possibilities for entering into conversation with the natural world. -
How to prepare the forest floor
How does seeing the forest floor is an interconnected living community, a web of relations, influence how we prepare the forest floor? In urban areas, too often we've treated soil as an object, as dirt. As a result, soil is often compacted, low in organic matter, and bacterially dominant.
