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At Home Soil Conservation

At Home Soil Conservation The use of fertile land for crops is essential for our society. However, a report on agriculture notes that US soil is seeing high soil degradation and a drop in soil fertility. To make up for this loss, farmers use fertilizers containing...

Learning with Lil’ Sprouts: Homemade Dressing and Salad

Learning with Lil' Sprouts: Homemade Dressing and Salad I don’t like salad! is the first response of most students when I tell them we are making a dressing and salad for cooking class. You don’t have to like it, but you may have fun making one I tell them....

Fall Recipe: Swedish Apple Cake

Fall Recipe: Swedish Apple Cake One of my favorite things about fall, without a doubt, is the food. The scents, tastes, and memories that surround autumn dishes always make me look forward to the cooler weather and falling leaves. One recipe that has been a staple...

Combatting College Food Waste

Combatting College Food Waste Since moving away for college, and having to buy ingredients and cook food on my own, I’ve become very aware of how fast my food sours, spoils or even sprouts. I’ve found that when purchasing produce to make meals for one person, I have a...

Beekeeping in the Burbs

Beekeeping in the Burbs I'm a mom to three young boys which means our days are full of lots of silliness, crazy energy, some screaming and of course, laughter. It also means that with all of the extra energy that three boys ages four, six, and eight, create, the very...

Getting Started with Native Plants

Getting Started with Native Plants The Colorado Native Plant Society hosts an annual conference early every spring, for which the keynote in 2022 was the great ecologist, Doug Tallamy. His presentation challenged what has become the status quo of talking about how...