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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 121: Bringing Outdoor Programming to Your Local Library | Lori Goins and Kelly Konieczki

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Combine the power of reading with the power of nature! In this 1000 Hours Outside Community Episode, Lori and Kelly walk us through how they started outdoor programming at their local libraries and all of the benefits they've seen from their implementations. They cover many other topics as well. Lori talks about being a 1000 Hours Outside grandma and Kelly talks about their transition to homeschooling during the pandemic. Kelly also runs The Detroit Butterfly Nursery and is a citizen scientist about all things pollinators. You can learn more about Lori and what she is heading up at the Monroe County Library Ellis Branch in Michigan here >> https://mymcls.evanced.info/signup/calendar?et=20&nomobile=1 . Look for the "Literacy on the Lawn" events. You can learn more about Kelly on Instagram at: @momcatkelly @detroitbutterflynursery You can find the monthly outdoor programming she is heading up at the Gross Pointe Public Library on Instagram at @thegppl . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Yurich. I am the founder of

0:06.3

1000 Hours Outside and the host and producer of this podcast. We have something new

0:11.8

in 2023.

0:13.0

At the end of 2022, we recorded some community

0:17.0

podcast episodes that's members from the 1000 hours outside community

0:21.0

who had something that they wanted to share on a

0:24.0

podcast episode. We had hundreds of applicants and we chose some special

0:28.1

guests who will be joining us throughout the year. In this episode you'll hear from Lori and from

0:34.2

Kelly who have brought outdoor programming to their local libraries. They are

0:39.4

inspirational in several different ways and I know you'll get a lot out of listening to them.

0:45.0

If you haven't already please make sure you've subscribed to the 1000 Hours Outside

0:48.7

podcast and left a review it really helps.

0:52.0

Enjoy learning from Lori and from Kelly. Here we go. Okay. Friends I am so

0:58.4

thrilled to welcome Lori Goins to our podcast. She is a fellow, Michigander.

1:03.7

We've been connected for a while.

1:05.5

Thanks for being here.

1:06.9

Thank you so much for having me.

1:09.2

Good, this is great.

1:10.6

Well, you're bringing the grandma perspective and the librarian perspective to this episode which I know people will be so thrilled about and you're sitting amongst a bunch of books.

1:21.0

I sure am.

1:22.0

Stayed right at work today for this.

1:24.0

Perfect. I love books. Yeah I think we're both connected in that spot. So before we

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