Can I ask what Oberon's job as an ecologist looks like? My eldest (also homeschooled) wants to go into some sort of environmental science and we're currently figuring out what that will look like and how to get there.
Love the update, I've followed your family for so long and it's so nice to see the other end of the parenting/homeschooling journey. There's so much support and representation when kids are younger, but you feel as if you disappear a bit as they get older.
Hi Jacinta, Oberon's a threatened species ecologist for NRE (state government). He focuses on threatened plants and their conservation. He provides advice, processes permits, writes listing statements, collects data and observes what practical actions might be needed in the field, helps brief ministers and helps formulate conservation strategies. He works with landholders, members of the public, consultants and government across Tassie. He studied geography at uni, then part of a PhD before getting a job as an environmental scientist working with plants.
so good to hear your update. we have a great deal of resonance with so much of this. we’re putting extra energy to the garden to soften the extreme prices, potatoes are our predominant guild member! we’ve ‘officially’ graduated unschooling so there’s a sense of spaciousness. we’ve also had some major dietary shifts and have less coherence, but the experiments are fruitful. focusing on systems that make things easier really reduces waste where it crept in, but as you observe, the cultural shift toward packaging more is disheartening. we are of course in the madness of summer to your winter quiet, and we’re trying hard to pare down as these life changes mean we just don’t need as much and can release more. it’s intense but gratifying. you are all such a lighthouse for us, thanks for your leadership and your care xx
Enjoyable update. Yes , I definitely notice the increase in prices but on the whole it's just meant re-prioritising where we want the dollars to go. Our needs are few so if I focus on the necessities first and then go back to look at the rest it seems the wants can mostly be met too. We are now out of potatoes so it's on to the Jerusalem artichokes. I've pickled them this year for the first time which has resulted in more people enjoying them and less of the unintended side effects that they normally come with ;-). Nga mihi
Can I ask what Oberon's job as an ecologist looks like? My eldest (also homeschooled) wants to go into some sort of environmental science and we're currently figuring out what that will look like and how to get there.
Love the update, I've followed your family for so long and it's so nice to see the other end of the parenting/homeschooling journey. There's so much support and representation when kids are younger, but you feel as if you disappear a bit as they get older.
Hi Jacinta, Oberon's a threatened species ecologist for NRE (state government). He focuses on threatened plants and their conservation. He provides advice, processes permits, writes listing statements, collects data and observes what practical actions might be needed in the field, helps brief ministers and helps formulate conservation strategies. He works with landholders, members of the public, consultants and government across Tassie. He studied geography at uni, then part of a PhD before getting a job as an environmental scientist working with plants.
so good to hear your update. we have a great deal of resonance with so much of this. we’re putting extra energy to the garden to soften the extreme prices, potatoes are our predominant guild member! we’ve ‘officially’ graduated unschooling so there’s a sense of spaciousness. we’ve also had some major dietary shifts and have less coherence, but the experiments are fruitful. focusing on systems that make things easier really reduces waste where it crept in, but as you observe, the cultural shift toward packaging more is disheartening. we are of course in the madness of summer to your winter quiet, and we’re trying hard to pare down as these life changes mean we just don’t need as much and can release more. it’s intense but gratifying. you are all such a lighthouse for us, thanks for your leadership and your care xx
Enjoyable update. Yes , I definitely notice the increase in prices but on the whole it's just meant re-prioritising where we want the dollars to go. Our needs are few so if I focus on the necessities first and then go back to look at the rest it seems the wants can mostly be met too. We are now out of potatoes so it's on to the Jerusalem artichokes. I've pickled them this year for the first time which has resulted in more people enjoying them and less of the unintended side effects that they normally come with ;-). Nga mihi
Loved your post Good reminder to reassess.
Great post Lauren and Oberon. Waving from the NW. J