Holly is an author, storyteller, and Florida Master Naturalist who loves to share heritage skills taught to her by her grandmothers. Florida has been her family home for generations and preserving that lifestyle for the future is her goal. Holly enjoys coming alongside women to share skills and help them discover their own natural gifts and talents.
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Hands-on learning works wonders here on the Frontier, so anytime I can match a lesson with the outdoors it is going to be a hit. On a hot, sticky day we invited our friends to Katie’s Landing State Park to do a class on tadpoles. Katie’s Landing is a beautiful hidden gem frequented by canoers […]
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Cattails grow in abundance across America. They have been used as a source of food, clothing, tool making, and comfort for hundreds of years. Here are a few uses for cattails that might pique your interest in learning more about this versatile plant. The “fluff” from the brown heads can be used for fire tinder, mattress stuffing, […]
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Exploring a pond habitat will reveal many things. It is made up of pond plants, pond creatures, and the water that sustains it. Food chains and ecology play an important role in the health of the pond. Take a trip to a nearby pond to complete this lesson and take along a habitat to bring […]
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Field Expedition: Service Serving America through Parks Did you know that many National Park volunteers are serving our country by keeping parks and historical lands open to the public? Many of the beautiful places we visit would be closed if it were not for volunteers. Our family was on a working vacation in Tennessee visiting […]
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Field Expedition: Science Reconnecting through Parks Taking a road trip with just one of my boys does not happen often. I took advantage of an opportunity to take Grayson to several state parks and to Alabama to see my grandmother. I wanted to reconnect with my first born. Whenever we hit the road, we have […]
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Rocks and Minerals Children love rocks, minerals, and fossils. I can usually find a rock rolling around in my dryer from the latest visit to a park. Rocks and minerals can be a fun and interesting study. You can collect for a few months or years and probably not discover all the cool things to […]
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Rock Collection Box: Using an empty mint tin, shoe box or cardboard jewelry box, have your children create a collection box for their finds from the yard, nature walk or park visit. We used an Altoid Mint box, some cardstock paper for dividers and leftover pillow stuffing from the craft box for the bottom. We […]
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Field Expedition: History Our video is from a visit to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings state park. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for The Yearling. She also wrote Cross Creek and many other books based on life in Florida during the early 1900s. Her Florida farmhouse in Hawthorne is a state park. It is a place […]
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