Citizen Science Raingarden Transformation
Over a 6 week process, I got to know 10 girls very well, and I am very proud of the work that they did for planning the garden. I thought […]
Over a 6 week process, I got to know 10 girls very well, and I am very proud of the work that they did for planning the garden. I thought […]
Today was a day for transformations! During early April, the girls got together and we created concrete “badges” to permanently decorate our “sash”. and leave our mark on the project […]
Well, I am like over a year behind on the writing of this blog (life is busy, and actually running my programs take precedent to writing about them.) I will […]
I do a lot of workshops with youth on weekends (including my Citizen Science programs). Most of these workshops involve teaching about the 12 different soil textures, which are made […]
So, this year has been an awful year for Downey mildew in NC. The sorghum failed because it stopped raining, and the pumpkins were a casualty of mildew. I planted […]
So many weeds, squash bugs are out, vine borers are out… So, apparently, a weekly neem application isn’t enough. I spent over an hour and a half weeding one plot… […]
We are on the verge of starting a new citizen science program in Agronomy with the Girl Scouts. It will focus on local food and poverty, and how agriculture is […]
So, on Wednesday night, Bella and I went out to fertilize pumpkins and measure their heights. Some of the plants are over a foot tall, and others are only 3 […]
For week four, the engineers came back out (as did the CFO of the girl scouts). The girls got into groups and had to plan out a garden size and […]
So, I have been derelict in posting these last sessions for citizen science, mostly because life got kinda busy (new house, new hobbies, new jobs, etc.) But, I am going […]
So, each hole that I dug got two seeds in it. With the idea that after two full leaves have emerged, the second one gets pulled. Well, in the third […]
Well… The awesome pictures that I got from the installation of PRS nutrient probes (more on these later) and nutrient sampling with my interns Karyn and Bella went into the […]
After a several month delay due to health circumstances, the ground is finally broken on the Citizen Science Agronomy project. The sweet sorghum crop is in my hand, and will […]
This week, I got my Sawzall and angle grinder, so I have been tearing up the pallets needed to construct the new quail and guinea pig cages! YAY! I also […]
I realize that I am skipping ahead like seven blog posts… but my girl scouts are doing amazing job teaching younger girls about rain gardens before we plant our final […]
For those of you who didn’t get to read, Duke Energies gave the Girl Scout Council a grant to build a rain garden at the Camp Mary Atkinson Leadership Center […]