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    How the Accokeek Foundation is Supporting Teachers and Students in Making the World a Better Place
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 8, 2018
    • 5 min

    How the Accokeek Foundation is Supporting Teachers and Students in Making the World a Better Place

    by Ashley Thompson, Director of Education and Interpretation “Trees are nature for all of us.” – First Grader, Montpelier Elementary...
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    Love Letters in the 18th Century
    Kate McGowan
    • Mar 29, 2018
    • 3 min

    Love Letters in the 18th Century

    “Now Letter-Writing is, to me, the most agreable Amusement and Writing to you the most entertaining and Agreable of all Letter-Writing”...
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    Nurturing Young Minds Through Service Learning
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Jun 27, 2017
    • 2 min

    Nurturing Young Minds Through Service Learning

    On June 7, the blueberries weren’t quite ripe yet. A few weeks before, eight students lovingly weeded and side-dressed the blueberry...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 6
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 6

    Episode 6 :How should we define the Accokeek Foundation’s guiding principles? /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/6_Guiding%20Principles_soundsca...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 5
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 5

    Episode 5: What are the most effective approaches to historical interpretation?/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/5_Interpretation_soundscape.wa...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 4
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 4

    Episode 4: How do we represent sustainable approaches to food and agriculture?/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/4_Agriculture%20and%20Food_soun...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 3
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 3

    Episode 3: How can we place visitors in dialogue with the land?/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3_Dialogue%20With%20The%20Land_soundscape.wav...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 2
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 2

    Episode 2: How can we best serve present day communities?/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2_Present%20Communities_soundscape.wav...
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    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 1
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue Pieces: Episode 1

    Episode 1: What stories should we tell?/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1_What%20Stories%20Do%20We%20Tell_soundscape.wav #dialoguepieces...
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    Every Kid Enjoys Outdoor Education in National Parks
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 17, 2017
    • 2 min

    Every Kid Enjoys Outdoor Education in National Parks

    Protecting the space-time continuum isn’t normally a task trusted to elementary school kids. However, on the Eco-Explorers: Colonial Time...
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    Accokeek Foundation
    • Apr 9, 2017
    • 2 min

    Build a Food Forest with the Accokeek Foundation

    Cognizant of worldwide ecological and food security challenges, the Accokeek Foundation has begun taking action to meet these challenges...
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    Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Our Way to a Cleaner Potomac.
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Apr 5, 2017
    • 2 min

    Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Our Way to a Cleaner Potomac.

    Serving as a source of drinking water for more than five million residence and as a home to a plethora of local plants and animals, the...
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    Permaculture Design Certificate Course – UPDATE
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Mar 30, 2017
    • 3 min

    Permaculture Design Certificate Course – UPDATE

    This past weekend, Permaculture course participants studied Natural Building and Passive Solar Energy at the Ecosystem Farm in Piscataway...
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    Hiking in Piscataway Park Just Got Better
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Mar 13, 2017
    • 2 min

    Hiking in Piscataway Park Just Got Better

    Hiking in Piscataway Park just got better!  Last month, thanks to a collaboration between the Accokeek Foundation, the Potomac Heritage...
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    Permaculture Design Offers a Solution
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Aug 17, 2016
    • 3 min

    Permaculture Design Offers a Solution

    The term, Permaculture, was coined by Bill Mollison, an Australian scientist, research professor, and author, who borrowed the concept...
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    Interns Explore Careers in Sustainable Agriculture
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Aug 12, 2016
    • 3 min

    Interns Explore Careers in Sustainable Agriculture

    “With it being so hard to make a living as a farmer, is it just the will to do it that keeps people farming?” That was just one of the...
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    Bringing Farming to Life with the FDA
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Jun 1, 2016
    • 1 min

    Bringing Farming to Life with the FDA

    Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have the important job of creating regulations that keep our food safe. Sometimes...
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    Food Waste and Fun?
    Accokeek Foundation
    • May 20, 2016
    • 3 min

    Food Waste and Fun?

    by Andrea Jones, Director of Programs and Visitor Engagement The issue Each year the average American family of four throws away $2,200...
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    Invasion of the Tennis Balls
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Apr 20, 2016
    • 2 min

    Invasion of the Tennis Balls

    April 16, 2016. It was a peaceful morning on the Potomac River. The sun was shining, there was hardly a breeze to ripple the river’s...
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    That’s a Wrap! Lattes with Lambs
    Accokeek Foundation
    • Apr 7, 2016
    • 2 min

    That’s a Wrap! Lattes with Lambs

    In like a lion and out like a lamb. No, I’m not talking about the month of April, but last Saturday’s annual Lattes with Lambs event at...
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