Magness Memorial Tree Farm is the World Forestry Center’s education forest. It’s 80 acres located about a half an hour’s drive from the World Forestry Center itself. We’ve only visited once, & I’ll admit that I left there a bit underwhelmed. I don’t know why. It was a nice place, just not what I was expecting. I think maybe I was envisioning an education center
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31 Days in Oregon: Rice Rock Museum
Day 3 includes yet another house in the Portland area. The house is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, but that’s not why most people visit the house. The house is now a museum, the rooms turned into galleries. If you enjoy natural science then you will adore this museum. If that’s not your thing, then you’ll be really bored here. It really
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Pressing Flowers
A couple years ago Farm Kid2 wanted a flower press, so I cobbled together one. We haven’t used it in awhile, so I thought it would be fun to pull it out. The kids loved it. I like this project because it’s appropriate for all ages.
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Solar Paper Silhouettes
This is the extreme version of making sun prints on construction paper. I walked passed this solar print paper at the store and decided to give it a try.
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