The day is finally here! I’ve been waiting for this day for a long while. Many folks pre-ordered The Order of the Trees and so finally this book is on it’s way to you. We launched the book Vermont style a few weeks ago and folks outside of Central Vermont have had to wait for […]
(Here’s a new interview by Ann Brock of Moms Clean Air Force about my new middle grade eco-adventure book The Order of the Trees! It comes out nationwide on Friday.) Moms Clean Air Force blogger, Katy Farber has been an environmental health activist, public speaker, instructor of graduate level courses in service learning, and creator […]
This is a sponsored guest post from Tesco. I hope you find it valuable and useful. Please let me know in the comments! If your patio could do with a makeover or an update then it may be time to invest in some new items to create a fresh new look. These days we’re a […]
I am so blessed to have launched my new middle grade fiction book, The Order of the Trees, on Friday. You should have seen it– fiddle and guitar music, former and current students and families milling around, friends and neighbors gathered at our local school’s library on a sunny Friday afternoon. There were tree cookies. […]
A broad coalition of health, firefighter, consumer and science groups filed a petition asking the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban four categories of consumer products — children’s products, furniture, mattresses and the casings around electronics — if they contain any flame retardant in the chemical class known as organohalogens. Petitioners include the American […]
Less than one month (gulp!) until the publication of my first middle level novel, The Order of the Trees, with Green Writer’s Press! This is an eco-adventure novel that is set in the Vermont woods. Here’s what our school librarian, Lynne Woodard, had to say about it! “Katy Farber’s new book The Order of the […]
There is a wolf in sheep’s clothing in the Senate this week. It’s parading as true chemical reform, which is something our country desperately needs. The Toxic Substance Control Act, written in 1973, is broken, outdated and allows over 60,000 chemicals in the marketplace that have never been tested for reform. So clearly, we need […]
(It may be spring where you live, but not here. This post was inspired by this article in the Washington Post and my many friends who have had school and recess cancelled regularly this winter when the temperatures have been below 20 degrees.) The wind stings my face. I squint to look out on many of […]
