Tag Archives: Aldo Leopold

What’s on Your Plate? or, How to Visit Your Food

By CircleReader | October 25, 2008

One of the things that has blessed us in our time in this part of Wisconsin has been the chance to live close to our food. It’s not that we sat farther from our plates in the city where I grew up, of course; it’s that we sat further away from the land that was our food’s native home.

Posted in Reading Around | Also tagged Ann Vileisis, Blanchardville, Catherine Gund, Circle M Farm, Cities, Food, Movies, Rick Sanger, Seasons, Stories, Thomas A. Lyson, Troy Community Farm, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Family, Heroes, and History

By CircleReader | February 12, 2008

One thing that Aldo Leopold did to become great was find, and use, his voice. His family was in many ways similar to mine and to thousands of others here in Wisconsin; his famous shack seemed completely familiar to us–just like Grandad’s place up north. But he made a difference in the world by figuring out what he had to say that was worth saying, and saying it wisely and well.

Posted in Continuing Stories | Also tagged Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Earth Day, Education, Energy, Environment, Heroes, History, Home School, Homer Daehn, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac, Wisconsin | 2 Comments

Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

By CircleReader | December 19, 2007

Here, right here, is where it happened–the Leopold family and their farm, the acorn, the rabbits, the Civil War, the covered wagons (with all the Ingalls family times), the Great Depression, the dust bowl drouths, floods, storms, fires, extinctions, and acts of government; and the lightning, and the heat from the fire.

Posted in Continuing Stories, Having Faith | Also tagged China, Education, Environment, Forest, Good Oak, History, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac, StarLogo, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Locals in a New Place - Reading Aldo Leopold

By CircleReader | August 9, 2007

The literacy of children thus follows the passions and engagements of the parents, and starts where they are.

Posted in Continuing Stories | Also tagged Chicago, Cities, Education, Environment, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lawrence University, Madison, Nelson Algren, Reading Leopold, Stories, Stuart Dybek, Studs Terkel, Wisconsin | Leave a comment