Melodie at Breast­feed­ing Moms Unite put together a great list of blog car­ni­vals that cov­ers top­ics like breast­feed­ing, real food/whole foods, attach­ment par­ent­ing, green liv­ing, and other related issues.

Not sure what a car­ni­val is?  Well, dif­fer­ent car­ni­vals work dif­fer­ently but the gist is that sev­eral blogs are writ­ing about sim­i­lar top­ics on the same day and there is a link on at least one to all oth­ers who are par­tic­i­pat­ing.  Some car­ni­vals are monthly.  Some are weekly.  Some are irreg­u­larly.  Some­times there is a place to add a link to your blog post, and some require sub­mis­sion of your post ahead of time.  In addi­tion to find­ing some really great blogs to read and hav­ing an oppor­tu­nity to explore dif­fer­ent top­ics, if you join car­ni­vals it can be a way for oth­ers to get to know you.  I have writ­ten posts for the Breast­feed­ing car­ni­val a cou­ple times in the past.  It was a great way to get to know some new blogs and have some input on posts that I wrote.

Do you par­tic­i­pate in or host any carnivals?