Kerryg on HubPages

Hi there, and welcome to my "hubography!" My name is KerryG and I've been a member of HubPages since January 2008. I've really enjoyed the community here so far, as well as the opportunity to write about some of my favorite subjects.

And I do have a lot of favorite subjects! I was lucky enough to be homeschooled throughout my middle and high school years, which gave me a lot of free time to explore all sorts of things in depth. I aspire to be a "Glorious Generalist," but am, in the end, also perfectly satisfied with knowing a little bit about a lot of things, and a lot about some things. The "some things" tend to center around literature, history, politics, nature, health, and saving the world. :)

I am currently a stay-at-home mother and wife, part-time research assistant, and internet content writer. I enjoy reading, writing, playing with my daughter, gardening, hiking, and procrastination.

I became interested in tallgrass prairie restoration when I was 12 or 13 and when I was 14, I started my first tallgrass restoration project (pictured to the right) on my family's acreage near Omaha.

Since then, I've become interested in many other aspects of prairie conservation and restoration. I am a firm believer in the power of sustainable agriculture to restore health to both ourselves and our environment, and on the Plains, I support efforts to bring back bison on a large scale as meat animals and for tourism, to harvest the wind with small wind systems, and to restore and conserve wildlife habitat.

PrairieWeb is a del.icio.us account I opened recently as part of a mad attempt to bookmark and tag every useful prairie-related resource on the internet.

What? I like to be organized.

The most recent bookmarks are:

Part and parcel of my interest in prairie restoration and sustainable agriculture, I've also developed a strong interest in natural gardening. My hubs focus on natural gardening in the Northern Plains and prairie regions of North America, because this is what I am most familiar with, but I do my best to incorporate a range of information and resources suitable from either a philosophical or practical standpoint for other climates and continents as well.

I'm one of a rare breed: a Nebraska liberal, and a full-on tree hugging bleeding heart, no less. I tend to take a fairly holistic view of saving the world, so two of my primary interests are organic agriculture and sustainable development, which often go hand-in-hand and which promise to improve the health of both our environment and ourselves. Other interests include women's rights, climate change, and, as you might guess from the prairie thing, habitat conservation/restoration and biodiversity issues, both among wild and domesticated plant and animal species. I tend to see these issues as more interconnected than not also.

I suffered from severe menstrual cramps for many years, in the course of which I became pretty disillusioned with the medical system and interested in the effects of dietary choices on health in general and cramps in particular.

Okay, so "thwarted" is too strong a word. It was more that I got sidetracked by Russian. But I maintain a strong interest in both history and literature (English and otherwise), and love writing about them.

I especially like classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry, 19th century British, Russian, and French novels, 20th century drama, and the poetry of Robert Frost and Anna Akhmatova. (Yes, I'm picky - so many books, so little time.) Historically, I am especially fond of medieval European history and the US-Indian Wars of the 19th century.

Just because a lot of my favorite books are things like Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice and The Iliad doesn't mean I'm not perfectly capable of enjoying books and other entertainment of a far less exalted nature. Not necessarily bad, mind you. Just not Shakespeare.

I love travel and am lucky enough to have parents and a husband who do too. I've visited more than 40 states, lived in four states and one foreign country (Russia), and travelled not nearly extensively enough in Western Europe.

A rotating selection of hubs made by others in response to requests I've made. Thanks for your answer, guys!

I am also active on Squidoo, where I have been a lensmistress since October 2006.

Thinking about joining Squidoo?

My fellow Lensmaster-Hubbers darkside and relache both have excellent hubs comparing the two services: