Diane S.

Earth Day BY JANE YOLEN I am the Earth And the Earth is me. Each blade of grass, Each honey tree, Each bit of mud, And stick and stone Is blood and muscle, Skin and bone. And just as I Need every bit Of me to make My body fit, So Earth needs Grass and stone […]

Some people countdown individual days to an important event.  I count down Saturdays. I started doing this as a child to countdown the days to Memorial Day Weekend (Memorial Day was my very own  official start of summer at Candlewood Lake).   Special events never seemed so far away when I counted the Saturdays (only 8 more

The Following was written by Pratt Intern Brendon Satmary. Brendon is a senior,  studying Biology  at Ursinus College. The following is his Internship Analytic Essay ENV 381B August 22, 2012 The Pratt Nature Center’s Effect on Young Children My time at the Pratt Nature Center this summer has been a great experience and showed me many aspects

  Ecological Autobiography (11/1/12) I remember more and more of my childhood in a slight haze, a feeling that maybe my memories are invented or maybe just not my own. But across the ice frosted river and up the winding trail through beech trees that have forgotten to shed their rattling brown leaves and into

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! “The words of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. SO… Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It’s a Truffula Seed. It’s the last one of all! You’re in charge of the last of

The following was written by our friend William. William is a “Pratt Kid.”  It  was written for his own blog… found here….Williams Blog  This is the first in a series of two from William.     Maple Syrup part 1 On February 13, 2013 I tapped my first maple tree at the Pratt Nature Center in New

Look closely Aqua-ponic lettuce has begun to germinate! Stay tuned to see if we are successful.

Your favorite Pratt Center staff and friends will be on tour locally this Saturday. Bruno and I will be at Home Depot, New Milford from 10-12:00. So while you are out clearing the shelves of bread and milk, in preparation of the upcoming snowstorm stop by Home Depot for a new shovel and don’t forget

Aquaponics Drew and Pratt’s middle school  group threw this  aquaponic system together this afternoon. The simple explanation, the one we explained to  our preschool  and younger school age kids goes like this…..Everything that eats poops, the fish poop in the water and the water gets pumped up to the plants and seeds, the “poopy” water provides “food” for