naturalist

Dr. Marijke Hecht is an Assistant Professor at Penn State whose research of urban greenspaces involves the interaction between humans and more-than-human nature. In 2019 I read Dr. Hecht's paper about cultivating 21st-century naturalists. When I sat down with Dr. Hecht to discuss her research, she was then a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. I am excited to share that Dr. Hecht's dissertation is now complete and has been published. 

If you have an interest in identity development, out-of-school learning, informal science education, or curriculum design, consider reading Marijke’s dissertation. You’ll find a link in the show notes.

Before you dig in, listen to our conversation first. This will give you a solid introduction to Dr. Hecht's research.

LINKS

Marijke Hecht (Faculty Profile at Penn State)

Dr. Hecht's Dissertation (2020)

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Listen Laugh & Learn Five Days a Week with Pinkie the Pig & Mildred the Cow ! This Episode: Poet Henry David Thoreau

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Rey Arrastia, a kink educator, naturalist, and online content creator, joins us for our first-ever full episode covering kink. Because we’ve been told that our kinks aren’t normal-- but in reality, they’re not only completely natural-- but most of us have them. And if we would do more to learn about them, there would be more to embrace, and less to be afraid of.

Featured in this Episode:

Rey Arrastia

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• TikTok: @selkiesmoothest
• Twitter: @selkiesmoother
• Check out Rey’s Nature Quickie: Getting Knotty
   

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Hosted and produced by Laura Borichevsky.
Cover artwork by Hailey Hirst.
Music by Wild Wild, Red Licorice, Módl, and UTAH, licensed via MusicBed.

We're kicking off Black Birders Week 2021 with a good friend of mine, Alex Bailey. Alex is the Founder and Board President of a wonderful organization called Black Outside Inc. based in San Antonio, Texas dedicated to setting up black youth in the outdoors where they can connect to nature and their culture in a safe and fun way. Join us as we adventure down memory lane of our college years together, how we found ourselves in the outdoor world and how the freedom of birds elicits the joy in birding for black folks. 

Be sure to visit https://www.blackoutside.org/

and follow them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/blackoutside_inc/

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to keep the podcast running and help to ensure I can pay the Black, Indigenous and People of Color that share their stories with you. 

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Sometimes we forget how very precious and unique our own backyards are, and that we don't need to travel thousands of miles to be some place that exists nowhere else on the planet.  For today's guest the Perth Hills is that very fabulous and special place. And it was this appreciation of knowing  the Perth Hills was the special land at the end of the yellow brick road, that led this young woman to write and publish her very own bird watching guide of the special birds endemic to her own patch of paradise.
Talitha may only be a young woman, but she knows the value in the Jarrah and Marri trees that create the Perth hills forests. These forests have evolved in this special part of Australia for millions of years and are found nowhere else on the planet.  As such they have created a unique ecosystem in which Talitha has explored and provided an insight into the birds that chose to make this special forest their home.
Join us in this episode to listen to the intriguing story of why a young Australian chose to share her passion for birds with the rest of us humans who share this world.

Talitha mentions several organisations and businesses - these will be listed below.
If you wish to obtain a copy of her book "Birds of the Perth Hills" you can visit one of these mentioned places or contact her via email -
talitha@westnet.com.au
Books are $22 each and $5 postage within Australia.
If you are wanting international postage please email Talitha directly.

Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
https://www.kanyanawildlife.org.au/visit-us/

Snap Printing Midland
https://www.snap.com.au/snap-midland.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb_Midland

The Environmental Printing Company
https://www.environmentalprintingco.com/

Places where "Birds of the Perth Hills" will be for sale:

1. Mundaring Tourist Bureau aka Perth Hills Mundaring Visitors Centre
https://www.perthhillsmundaring.com.au/Pages/default.aspx

2. Hot Shots Coffee Van
https://www.facebook.com/hotshotscoffeevan

3. Gidgegannup Post Office

4. Robyns Coffee Van

Don't forget we have pictures of the book on our instagram page:
birdman_dad

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Success InSight Podcast

Today's episode of Success InSight is another addition to our Outdoor Adventure Series.

It's a pleasure to introduce you to Ken Keffer. Ken is a freelance writer and speaker. a professional naturalist, and an award-winning environmental educator and author. Ken’s career is spent highlighting the importance of nature and encouraging people to explore the outdoors. Ken has penned seven books connecting kids and the outdoors.

Ken received the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education’s Nonformal Educator of the Year Award, and “The Kids’ Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do In Nature Before You Grow Up” was awarded a National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention.

Ken is also a regular contributor to Birds & Blooms magazine, he has also written for regional and national outlets in both print and online including Wyoming Wildlife, Backcountry Journal, the National Wildlife Federation, Parks & Recreation, and Outdoors Unlimited.

He is often featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including appearances as the outdoor adventure contributor on Milwaukee Public Radio and on Iowa Public Radio, and he is currently on the Outdoor Writers Association of America Board of Directors.

Click the links below to find a few of Ken’s most popular books on Amazon:

Ranger Rick's Travels: National Parks
Earth Almanac: Nature's Calendar for Year-Round Discovery
Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up

To learn more about Ken and his work, visit his website at http://www.kenkeffer.net

You can also connect with Ken on the following social sites:

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Byron Ballard grew up wild and “unchurched” in the mountains of rural western North Carolina.  That lack of religious structure allowed her to grow her own spiritual practices - which later she would identify as Paganism/Wicca, a collection of earth based spirtual practices.   

Such beliefs manifested around the world with similar ideas.  Ballard is a folklorist specializing in the cultural history of the Scotch/Irish who immigrated to the Appalachian mountains.

You can find more about her here:

 https://www.myvillagewitch.com/

If you order her latest book from Malaprops you can get a signed copy:

https://www.malaprops.com/book/9780738764535

H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at Sacred Space Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Glastonbury Goddess Conference, Heartland, Sirius Rising, Starwood, Scottish Pagan Federation Conference, Hexfest and other festivals and conferences. She serves as senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on “Wyrd Mountain Gals.”

Her essays are featured in several anthologies and she writes a regular column for SageWoman Magazine. Her books include “Staubs and Ditchwater” (2012), the companion volume “Asfidity and Mad-Stones” (2015) “Embracing Willendorf” (2017), “Earth Works: Ceremonies in Tower Time” (2018),“Roots, Branches, and Spirits: the Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia” fromLlewellyn (Feb. 2021) and “Seasons of a Magical Life: a Pagan Path of Living” (Weiser, August 2021). Upcoming: “The Ragged Wound: Tending the Soul of Appalachia” (Smith Bridge Press), “Porch Food: a cookbook from Wyrd Mountain” and a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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In this episode of the Classified History Podcast we talk with Marty Main, the founder of the Florida Master Naturalist Program. The FNMP celebrates it's 20th anniversary this year and Marty joins The Gainesville Sun's Brad McClenny to talk about the history of the FMNP and what does it mean to be a Master Naturalist. A pair of instructors, Ken Gioeli and John Nelson, also take a moment to share their thoughts on the program as well. Join us for another show.

40 years ago, in the midst of the resplendent Ranthambore National Park in India, one man discovered his true purpose. This man not only went on to pioneer one of India's oldest wildlife magazines for kids but also took it upon himself to champion the forefront of wildlife conservation.

Join our journey into the wild and beyond with the founder of Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Bittu Sahgal.

David has worked (and continues to with some organizations) with many of the wilderness survival programs in the country, including Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), Rabbit Stick and Winter Count (bi-annual primitive skills training events), Reevis Mountain, California Survival School, Pollen Circles, and Preppercon. He teaches on Native paints, ground stone tools, water procurement, desert navigation, stone age options vs. modern, desert food collection and preparation, shelter-building, fire-making and so much more.

David is famous for his delicate arrowheads, beautiful stone pendants and bears and more recently paintings. David lovingly and mindfully works his craft and you know that whatever you might possess that David has created is imbued with his deeply spiritual love and respect for nature.

David has been guiding people into the wilderness for decades, teaching them how to live and even thrive in the only seemingly desolate land of the SouthWest. He has worked with many struggling teens and their families with the Anasazi Foundation, and Aspen Achievement Academy, led the foundational Passages To Recovery group (an adult wilderness recovery program), was a senior instructor with BOSS for many many years, and leads groups into Mexico's very rural Copper Canyon to experience the Tarahumara, a very reclusive culture.

If you are around David for any length of time you find him drumming or playing the piano, guitar or his lap dulcimer, singing songs both beautiful and sometimes funny and instructional - he has a great rap song called "Brush Your Teeth."

 davidholladay.rocks

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Elliot Connor

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George Moore was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Although his work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist, influencing such authors as James Joyce, who we have also featured on this series. "So On He Fares" is the 10th chapter in a collection of short stories called "The Untilled Field" first published in 1903.

DRAMATIC READING by Eric R. Hill

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Thank you so much for your support! If you’d like to help support the show and hear your name listed before future episodes, head on over to Patreon.com/StoriesTellingStories

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In the Earth Day launch of the Wonder Outside Podcast, naturalist and outdoor educator, Ted Mattison, also known as Ranger Ted, talks with Annabeth Gish about how to find simple, practical and available adventures in the great outdoors. Covering a wide range of topics from New Mexico to Iowa; from hikes with kids to finding solace in the vast expanse of the prairie, from walking in our own neighborhoods with our senses open to remembering where the biggest strawberry in the world is located, Ted and Annabeth highlight the need to get outside regularly for our physical, mental and spiritual health.

Annabeth comes to the show prepared! She brings a wonderful, truly grounding and much needed in these times, poem by William Stafford, Being A Person.  Many people know her excellent work as an actor in scores of television including series regular roles on: The X-files, Halt and Catch Fire and The Bridge. She's appeared in several movies including Mystic Pizza and Before I Wake.   

She also talks about her first voice over opportunity on the documentary, America's Lost Landscape, The Tallgrass Prairie. 

Wonder Outside is much more than just an interview show. It's a variety show thats specifically designed to keep it fun, useful, practical and motivating. Ted talks about asking the question, 'What do you notice?' over 'What do you know?' in the opening segment. In the 3 x3 Challenge we look at some nature escapes right in the middle of Brooklyn, New York. The Where in the World Are You game tests your knowledge of geography and weather.  DJ Shark is our musical expert as we discuss how the great outdoors influences our art and There's No Planet B gives you practical steps you can take to protect our planet and all its inhabitants.

Every episode of the Wonder Outside podcast features an examination of a song or piece or art that is influenced by the great outdoors.  None other than DJ Shark talks with Ted about John Denver's iconic Rocky Mountain High for this debut episode on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

Ranger Ted has been building community his entire life. That's especially true in this podcast where you can access a wide variety of experts to help you experience the great outdoors in more meaningful ways. 

In episode 1, you'll hear about Super Nature Adventures www.supernatureadventures.com and their downloadable adventure kits.

Also he'll talk about the wonderful people at Save Our Monarchs. www.saveourmonarchs.org who help people everywhere plant milkweed and thus save our monarchs.

http://supernatureadventures.com

http://saveourmonarchs.org

Erica Fielder is the owner of Erica Fielder Studio, an interpretive studio that creates interpretive displays for parks and visitor centers. Erica has worked with over 50 creative partners during the studio’s 30-year history and has guided the production of almost 1,400 interpretive displays.

How did Erica become a designer of interpretive panels?

How does she prepare watercolor paintings for her panels?

How does Erica begin conversations with prospective clients?

Let’s find out.

LINKS

Erica Fielder Studio

Sam H. Ham•

Freeman Tilden •

Jug Handle Creek Farm & Nature Center

Maraya Cornell on Twitter 

National Association for Interpretation (NAI) 

North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)

Pannier Graphics - Outdoor Signage and Exhibit Bases

iZone Imaging - Custom Signs and Environmental Graphics

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Music: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License; 

SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.

View The Freelance Project Portfolio to learn more about Independent environmental education professionals and how they strengthen environmental literacy.

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On this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with, graphite artist, Zoe Keller.

We discuss her time growing up in the Catskills, the various artist residencies she's done, her love of graphite, and so much more! Communing with nature on Art Affairs 009.

Follow Zoe:

• Website: zoekeller.com
• Instagram: @zoekellerart
• Facebook: @zoekellerart
• Twitter: @zoekellerdraws

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Catey Terry, President and CEO, shares her personal story of how she is connected to nature and the Great Smoky Mountains through her time as a young girl at Tremont and then today as its leader. She speaks about the important work that Tremont Institute is doing to promote conservation and enable youth and adults to engage in hands on learning. 

From Firefly Camp to becoming a Southern Appalachian Naturalist, Tremont offers many ways for participants to immerse themselves in the beauty and diverse ecosystem that the Great Smoky Mountains offer. 

Connect with Tremont Institute:
Instagram: @tremontinstitute
Website: gsmit.org

Connect with Lori:
Instagram: @thehikepodcast, @lori_the_explorer
Twitter: @thehikepodcast
Blog: thehikepodcast.wordpress.com
Facebook: @thehikepodcast
Email: hikepodcast@gmail.com

Special thank you to Isabella for being a show patron!


Music intro track from Thorn & Shout, used under the Creative Commons license.

Music outro track "Two Mountains at a Time" from Live at the Fillmore by Pachyderm, used under the Creative Commons license. 

Connect with Hike:
Instagram: @thehikepodcast
Twitter: @thehikepodcast
Facebook: @thehikepodcast
Email: hikepodcast@gmail.com

Marijke Hecht is a doctoral candidate in Learning Sciences and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is focused on how people learn about nature outside of the classroom. I shared her paper, “Becoming a Naturalist,” this past summer (see Episode 21).

What has Marijke learned about how a naturalist identity develops?

How can guest educators contribute to an outdoor program?

What drives learning ecosystems in the informal sector? What should be driving them instead?

Let’s find out.

LINKS

View Marijke’s research

Follow Marijke on Twitter (@marijkehecht)

Visit the UPCLOSE lab at the University of Pittsburgh

iNaturalist

Episode 21: Cultivating Naturalists

Transcript: Ep40, Marijke Hecht, Developing a Naturalist Identity

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Welcome to the Season 1 finale of Our Nature! This week’s guest is a very special one to me because he happens to be my boyfriend. David Sleininger is a former jazz musician turned homesteader turned energy healer. His story is one of both devastating injury and immense healing. I don’t want to give too much away because I think it’s important for him to share his story in his own voice, but I will say that after years of darkness and suffering, he turned to nature for support...and it was instrumental in helping him heal from chronic pain. His journey is so inspiring to anyone dealing with chronic pain or injury, anyone who is interested in learning more about homesteading or simply being more self reliant, and anyone who is looking to witness someone who has followed their intuition even when the path seemed uncertain.

In this episode, we talk about what homesteading is, why there has been a recent resurgence in homesteading, what David’s homestead looks like, his journey from music to bread baking to homesteading to energy healing and what each shift has taught him along the way, why he can’t use power tools and how that affected his building project, what nature taught him about himself, the balance of feminine and masculine and so much more. It was vulnerable and fun for me to record this podcast with David. We’re very real with each other as you’ll hear. David doesn’t have social media at all and I don’t put him on my social media, so it feels really special to use this platform to share his story. I hope you enjoy it and I’ll see you in 2020!

“I tend to think about things like - am I moving away from something, or am I moving towards something?” - David Sleininger

“I have had a few dramatic shifts in my life and I have found that when my intuitive voice is loud enough, if I follow it, those transitions are actually much smoother and more settled than you’d think.” - David Sleininger

“Being with nature is a dance.” - David Sleininger

RESOURCES:

• Holisticism
• Birth Chart Tool
• Seth Godin's Akimbo: Episode about sunk costs
• Biggest Little Farm Movie
• Helen + Scott Nearing
• Back to the land movement
• The Good Life Center
• Living The Good Life Book
• David's Homesteading Apprenticeship
• EP 08: A Pain Free Existence With Alexander Technique Practitioner Alan Katz
• David’s email

SHOW NOTES:

• What homesteading is
• Why there has been a recent resurgence in homesteading
• A description of David’s homestead
• The devastating injury that caused David to give up playing music permanently
• David’s journey from a bread baker and homestead apprentice to purchasing his land in rural Maine
• What it was like for David to transition from an urban to a rural place
• Why David couldn’t use power tools and what that meant for his homesteading project
• How David got through his darkest moments
• What nature taught David about himself
• David’s newest chapter in New York City
• The Last 5 Questions

Connect with David:

• Email: David.Sleininger@gmail.com

Connect with The Our Nature Podcast:

• Follow Our Nature on Instagram
• Sign up for the Our Nature Newsletter: www.ournaturepodcast.com
• Email me at: ournaturepodcast@gmail.com

Gratitude List: This podcast would not be possible without the group of talented individuals below. I offer them my sincerest thanks and love.

• Graphics by: Tim LaSalle
• Music by: Nick Ceglia

THE LAST 5 QUESTIONS:

1. What is your favorite place in nature? Anywhere that can wake me up despite myself.

2. What is the animal, mineral or plant that resonates with you the most? I have always felt deeply connected to trees.

3. What is one thing we can do right now to connect with the natural world and bring more harmony into our lives? Look up a tree, or rock or plant you’re curious about and learn about it.

4. What’s the greatest lesson nature has taught you? That I’m capable. That I can do it. And that – nature will support everything I need, anytime I need it.

5. Complete this sentence: Nature brings me…If I listen to what’s going on in my inner nature and connect to the natural world around me, I’ll have the information, I’ll have the intuitive messaging, I’ll have the health that I need to do what I feel drawn to do.