Citizen Science – Week 3
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 […]
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Groundbreaking!!!
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 […]
African Mud Cloth: Soil and Art at it’s Best!
African Mud Cloth: Soil and Art at it’s Best! So, I love combining art and soils, and this is by FAR my favorite activity! I have done several variations of […]
Six Weeks of Crazy, and a Saturday to Forget
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 […]
Citizen Soil Science Rain Garden Day
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 […]
Soil Science: Citizen Science Series Week 1 & 2
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 […]
Kids in Agronomy Plot Layout
It has been awhile since I have posted anything, what with the selling/consuming of all of my rabbits, and I have been busy with my doctoral written prelims. So, I […]
Make Your Own Soil Color Book
Soil comes in many different colors, including purple, white and green! This is a project I came up with, and will be testing it later this week for the first […]
Soil Horizon Cupcakes
I love soil, it is super important to a lot of basic life functions, and it very pretty!Soils generally have different horizons. The topsoil (A) contain a majority of the […]
Camp Acres – Week 9 and 10
So, I have had back to back weekends with Agility Trials, so I haven’t gotten to update as planned. Every year at camp, the state health inspector comes. My boss […]
Ipad Program: Awesome Fungus in Raccoon Loft
Camp owns 8 Ipads for use in technology education. I was tasked with coming up with engaging activities. We are doing citizen science combined with a fungus hunt! With all […]
Camp Acres, Week 8
The chickens have moved permanently to a new home. The 12 of them are snug inside the coop at night (as it is only 0.7 square feet per chicken); however, […]
Chicken Program #2: Finished Tractor!
We made many different colors of paint (acrylic) available to girls aged 6-9 (and the helping CIT2’s). I didn’t know exactly what would happen in this mural of craziness, but […]
Chicken Program #1
So, last week, I featured the rabbit program. They are still majorly successful due to the cute, fuzzy factor. Well, what about the chickens? Today, I was going to do […]
Finished Tractor
Bloo and I finished the chicken tractor before lunch today. It is a beautiful masterpiece, even though some of the plywood got warped in the storm we had Tuesday night. […]
Counselors in Training Program 1: Chicken Tractor Building
So, we have some lovely chickens, which means it is time to build them a house at camp. I decided on building them a triangular chicken coop, with a nightly […]
Camp Acres! Week 7
After returning from Harvard/MIT, I had discovered that one of the chickens died during the storm that knocked out power. They did not have access to water, or light (to […]
Bunny Program #1
This week, they are running an iCamp session with 18 girls. Each girl gets an ipad to photograph and document everything. We were going to head out and document and […]
My Agronomy Program
I just submitted a grant proposal, and have another to finish by midnight tonight… Reinvest in the American Society of Agronomy. It is for $10,000 and is a Girl Scout […]
New Youth Development Programs on the Docket
These are the programs I am running this fall for the Girl Scout Council… excited much?!?! You know it _____________________________________________ Program 1: Citizen Science: Soil and Water Conservation in Action! […]
