School gardens are in my blood. I’ve been continually involved in planning, planting, and caring for school gardens since 2004! Fifteen years! Wow, that is a long time! And, more remarkably, that span of time only involves two gardens! My first school garden involvement was at the elementary school where my boys attended their first…
Today, I feel compelled to write about monarch conservation. We are in the height of monarch breeding season here in the midwest, and I am seeing post after post on social media about these amazing creatures. In fact, earlier this week, I found four monarch eggs on the common milkweed patch at my house. No…
Today, I presented nine times on prairies! In the morning, I saw four kindergarten classes. I like students of all ages, including kindergarten. The weather was fine, although a little overcast and cooler. They listened to me talk for about 10 minutes, and then, went on an I SPY walk in a man-made prairie looking…
All Photographs, © Carol Labuzzetta, 2019
My second garden club group is coming to an end. I have mixed feelings about letting it go. Last week, I turned in my resignation to the principal at a local elementary school where I have served as a co-curricular advisor for their garden club. I started in the fall of 2017 and will end…
Okay, so this morning, I woke early, about 5:30 a.m.. It is early for me. I have friends that awaken an hour before that time. But, for some reason the old Thomas Dolby song, “She Blinded me with Science” was stuck in my head. Anyone that knows me well, knows that I love science! I love life…
We moved to the Midwest in 1999 from Western New York. The topography here is much the same as it was there. However, looking back I believe I had was is known as a transformative experience shortly after we arrived. I was driving down Highway 53 in the Town of Onalaska on a fall morning….
Last week I fell behind on my daily blog postings. Writing these posts is something I truly enjoy doing. Truthfully, it is something that I want to do everyday. When I cannot get to it, after almost two years of posting daily, I feel like something is missing or I’m not living up to an…
While we were driving our son back to school on Sunday, we crossed the great Mississippi River. Due to the mild weather, parts of the river are still open and not frozen. There, in the trees, lining one of the pieces of land in the slough, were a pair of Bald Eagles, resplendently sitting with…