We have to be intentional in our society. We have to think about how we want to bring outside into the daily rhythms.

We're just more of an indoor culture. We've got screens to help entertain us and teach us.

We've got all kinds of books to read and Legos to play with. It's now become something we have to be thoughtful about.

It's so hard for moms just to wrap their brain around getting outside.

It's like, well, now I have one more thing I need to be adding to my to-do list.

And really, I think what I want to encourage is this is actually something that creates a home culture

for everyone. It's good for everyone. It actually adds more life and vitality to your day when you're outside.

My name is Lisa, mother of seven, and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boom.

Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch, cooking, and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.

Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today we're going to be talking about a subject that we hit on this podcast a lot.

And that is getting kids outside. How to do it, practicality of it, why it's important.

I always love chatting about this. And today I'm going to discuss it with Joy Cherrick of Nature Study Hacking. So let's dive in.

All right. Well, thank you so much, Joy, for joining me on here. I was taking a look at your website.

And we're going to talk about getting kids outside, but you have all of these guides, like insects, mammals, trees, weather.

So it's more than even just getting kids outside. It's also taking advantage of the learning opportunities when they're out there.

So let's dive in. Tell us about your family, your mission, and yeah, just a little bit about yourself.

Yeah. So I homeschool our seven children. My oldest is 13, almost 14. I've got all the way down to a one year old. He's almost to like holding on to that last little bit of babyness.

Yes.

And I have I realized a few years ago that it's really hard for families when they are trying to learn how to do nature study as part of their homeschool.

Most of us start off not really knowing what the name of the tree is that's in our yard or what the name of the weeds are just around us.

You know, we're just a really not sure about all of those things. So I started going through the handbook of nature study, which is this like very thick tone that a lot of the homeschoolers love to use.

And it's like nobody knows how to use it. So I use that as my spine. And it has a section each of mammals insects, all of that. So I pulled from that knowledge from, you know, 100 years ago.

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