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 […]
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Citizen Science Good Earth Adventures: The Final Chapter
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 […]
Citizen Science Week 5: October 26-27th, 2013
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 […]
Pumpkin Problems
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… […]
Citizen Science – Week 4
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 […]
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 […]
Digging and Transplanting Pumpkins
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 […]
Germinating Pumpkins!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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