Monday 9am/9pmET

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The Story Walking Radio Hour with Wendy Fachon

Tune in to Nature’s loving vibes. Listen to nature-inspired stories and interviews with environmental educators for new ideas about how to make our world a better place. Sustainable Living Newswriter, nature walker and youth educator Wendy Nadherny Fachon hosts the Story Walker Radio Hour to talk about issues that matter and to introduce you to people who are coming up with creative… sensible… solutions. Let’s engage with Earth… with Spirit… and with one another… heart to heart… to solve problems and co-create more meaningful life stories. By integrating environmentalism into our professional vocations and passionate avocations, we contribute to building a healthier, more beautiful and sustainable world

www.storywalking.com  and www.wendyfachon.blog
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New! Wendy’s Special Book to Be Published

The Difference Maker is Wendy Fachon’s inspirational memoir of her son, Neil, a high school student and environmental activist who espoused a different style of leadership. He was touched by many lives, and he touched many lives in return, before passing away at age 20. Download the pdf version for free. Fans can also help by sending a brief review to wendy@netwalkri.com.

Broadcasts Weekly Monday 9am & 9pmET

Wendy’s Planet Health This Week

Monday 9am/9pmET

Lawns into Meadows: Rebuilding Biodiversity
Guest Owen Wormser, Landscape Designer, Abound Design

Imagine planting native wildflowers in pots on a terrace or transforming a section of your high-maintenance lifeless lawn into a low maintenance meadow habitat, rich with biodiversity.  Recent satellite photographs show that lawns now occupy 45.6 million acres, about three times the size of New Jersey, making the American lawn the largest irrigated crop in the U.S. in terms of surface area.  Perfectly manicured grass lawns were marketed as an essential feature of the American dream in the 1940’s and 50’s. Today, lawn maintenance demands evermore precious resources – time, money and water. Lawns require labor, expensive motorized equipment and fuel consumption.  They also involve toxic treatment applications – synthetic fertilizers, weed killers and insecticides – that poison life.

In this episode landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with beautiful, low-maintenance meadows, that sequester far more carbon than a lawn.   Owen is the author of Lawns into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape, an award-winning book published by Chelsea Green.  Owen received a degree in landscape architecture in 1998 before founding his own landscape business, Abound Design.   He offers consulting, installation and sustainable landscape design services inspired by permaculture and deep ecology.  His work serves as a means for sharing his deep connection with nature, while further cultivating that connection within himself.   He actively practices the skills and perspectives necessary to effectively weave people and the natural world back together.

MEADOW GARDENING RESOURCES

Purchase Owen’s book, Lawns into Meadows – https://stonepierpress.org/store/lawns-into-meadows-second-edition

Visit Owen’s Abound Design website – https://abounddesign.com/

Download the Meadowscaping Activity Guide from Kids Gardening – https://kidsgardening.org/the-latest-meadowscaping/

Shop for seeds and plants at American Meadows – https://www.americanmeadows.com/

View this Pesticide Action Network webinar on Pesticides and Climate Change – https://www.panna.org/resources/webinar-recording-pesticides-and-climate-change

PerusePollinator Pathway native plant lists – https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/native-pollinator-plant-lists

Take the NO MOW MAY Challenge – https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/rethink-your-lawn

Follow ReSeedingRI on instagram.

Join the Story Walking Radio Hour group on facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio

Learn more about Food Forest Abundance – https://foodforestabundance.com/get-started/?ref=WENDYFACHON

Learn more at www.storywalking.com , https://netwalkri.com email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.

Subscribe to Wendy’s blog Writing with Wendy at www.wendyfachon.blog.
Join Wendy on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio
The Empowerment Factory https://www.theempowermentfactory.org/

BIO: Story Walking Radio Host, Wendy Nadherny Fachon empowers young people, by showing how to step forward into each new life learning adventure with clarity, confidence and positive energy. Wendy began her youth work training in the school of life by observing and listening to her own daughter and son as they faced the challenges of growing up with bullying, fickle friends, and tough teachers. When her nephews, aged 5 and 7, lost their father on 9/11, she joined the boys and her sister on their bumpy journey along the road to recovery from deep trauma and upheaval.

As Wendy’s children grew into their independence, she entered into youth work and earned her RIPQA certification, Rhode Island’s 21^st Century Community Learning Center program quality training. At the same time, she joined a holistic community, which informed and inspired her Story Walking practice, and in 2011, Wendy created a lyrical Storywalker CD, Fiddlesticks, to introduce the concept of Story Walking to children and parents. Wendy’s stories and associated lessons combine mindful walking, word play, environmental education and spirituality to nurture the personal development of her followers. From there, Wendy began leading programs for in-school and out-of-school-time (OST) enrichment.

One of her first youth work assignments was to form an after-school walking club to help an unusually obese child get more physically active, make friends, and increase self-esteem. At the core of the Story Walking practice is the concept that each individual is the main character in his or her own unique life story, holding the power to weave the fabric of that story through the conscious energetic choices of words, thoughts, intentions and actions, elicited in response to both fortunate and unfortunate situations. Inevitably, each story becomes an important piece of the great storied tapestry of humanity.

In 2014, Wendy published her Storywalker children’s book, The Angel Heart. Dedicated to her late father, this poetic story presents a metaphor for finding the peace, love and joy within ourselves when confronted with sadness, loss and grief.

In 2016, Wendy’s faced the unimaginable, when her 19-year-old son, Neil, was diagnosed with DIPG, an aggressive, rare, inoperable form of the brain stem cancer. Doctors said he would be dead within three months. Neil’s story was an epic battle on multiple fronts, where he rose above overwhelming adversity to outlive his prognosis enough to create a lasting impact on the world, before finally departing from his physical body. His story continues beyond his passing, as his spirit guides Wendy and the rest of his family in finding ways to bring greater hope and joy to children experiencing life threatening illnesses and other challenges. After a year of caregiving and a time of intense grief, Wendy was guided back to her Story Walking practice with a higher sense of purpose and seeks to expand her practice through the Story Walking Radio Hour.

Affiliated with The Empowerment Factory, Wendy is recognized for her creative collaboration with many youth-focused organizations and Title I schools. She is also a regular contributor to Natural Awakenings healthy living magazine, writing articles about children, health, and environmental issues.

Learn more at storywalking.com, email wendy@netwalkri.com or call 401 529-6830. Connect with Wendy to order copies of Fiddlesticks, The Angel Heart or Storywalker Wild Plant Magic Cards.

Subscribe to Wendy’s blog Writing with Wendy at www.wendyfachon.blog.
Join Wendy on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/StoryWalkingRadio