When Too Safe Becomes Unsafe
When Too Safe Becomes Unsafe By Jacob Rodenburg Recently, I watched a frustrated teacher struggle to fill out a risk assessment form for a field trip to an outdoor education center. It made me wonder: if there are risks to spending time outside, what are the risks to...
Rewilding Our Words
How Language Shapes Our Relationship with Nature By: Jacob Rodenburg Words are powerful. They are the building blocks of our thoughts. We use them to make sense of our experiences, connect with each other, and imagine new ways of being in the world. But sometimes, our...
Belonging Beyond the Self: Healing Natural Loneliness The Quiet Belonging We Forgot
Belonging Beyond the Self: Healing Natural Loneliness The Quiet Belonging We Forgot By Jacob Rodenburg So many teenagers tell us they feel lonely. Their digital lives—filled with followers, likes, and scrolling conversations—give the illusion of connection, but lack...
Carrying Nature Inside: Why Full-Bodied Knowing Matters…
Carrying Nature Inside: Why Full-Bodied Knowing Matters… By Jacob Rodenburg I have a friend who is an incredible naturalist. A short walk of just a few hundred meters through meadow or forest might take more than an hour in his company. He pauses often, sharing...Rotary Health Centre
Health Centre The Camp Kawartha Health Centre is an eco-friendly straw bale building (2021) that has a fully equipped clinic with first aid supplies, over-the-counter medications, as well as patient assessment tools (BP cuff, thermometer, stethoscopes, oxygen...Stories in the Snow
Every trail has a story to tell and if you are patient enough you can learn to read the writing each footprint makes in the soft snow of winter. To practice reading tracks try this simple ac-tivity. Find an area of fresh snow. Ask your children to...A Tapestry of Colour
This is a part of a series of articles based on Jacob’s new book called The Book of Nature Connection – 70 Sensory Activities for all Ages, published by New Society Press and released on April 18th, 2022. Right now, move your head slowly from side to side. Look around...Your Better Sense of Nature
This is part of a series of articles based on Jacob’s new book called The Book of Nature Connection – 70 Sensory Activities for all Ages, published by New Society Press and released on April 18th, 2022. Nature is calling… Our environment is a delightfully textured...The Magic of Nests…
If you think about it, a bird egg is a beautiful thing. Within this fragile container is the promise of new feathered life. And bird eggs come in a surprising variety of shapes, sizes and colours. No matter what they look like, there is one fact that may seem obvious but deserves mention – eggs roll. And a rolling egg is not a safe egg. Keeping her eggs both warm and safe is the challenge every mother bird faces. That is why she makes a nest – sometimes an elaborate affair like the woven, hanging nest of a Northern Oriole, or sometimes as simple as a hollow scrape in the ground like that of a Killdeer.
