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Figuring Out Homeschool Graduation Requirements
Our state requires “instruction and training in orthography, reading, writing, the English language and grammar, geography, arithmetic, drawing, music, the history and constitution of the United States, the duties of citizenship, health education, physical education and good behavior.” The number of annual hours of instruction for middle and high school is 990 per year. Because…
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In Defense of Democratic Food
Our food system is so broken that I get overwhelmed just thinking about it. Some of the symptoms of this on the consumer end are food deserts, food insecurity and health impacts of processed food. Some of the larger systemic problems are deforestation for meat production, overuse of petro-chemicals for monoculture crops, subsidy allocation for…
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Permaculture Plans 2023
The kids and I are working together on the #freepermaculture Yearlong Course available here. https://courses.ecodesignhive.com/ Everything is offered free of charge, but if you can make a monetary contribution I recommend it. So far the resources have been well worth what we voluntarily paid for them. As part of the process Heather Jo Flores talks…