Greenagers will offer a $2,000 scholarship to a graduating senior or young person under the age of 25 pursuing secondary education or work experience in the sustainable agriculture field.
Tag: Judy Isacoff
NATURE’S TURN: The Year of the Bird
I realized that my solitary experience of birdwatching is genuine social engagement outside human community, a capacity that has been evolving between humans and other life forms for millennia.
NATURE’S TURN: Buds, berries, and beetles
There is also the deep breath drawn in anticipation of going to battle with striped cucumber beetles, if they have invaded your garden as they have appeared in mine.
NATURE’s TURN: Solstice time plant supports, growers gather, a turkey struts
At Fern Farm on Mt. Washington, baby animals capture the essence of spring’s progress from embryo to new, burgeoning life.
EYES TO THE SKY: Sun-centered days, moonlit nights, the astonishing analemma
We experience sustained maximum sunlight during the six-week period that spans from May 30 through July 13, when days are 15 hours or longer between sunrise and sunset.
NATURE’S TURN: Early morning, early evening in the garden
From about 6 a.m. – 9 a.m. and again from 6 p.m. until nearly 9 p.m., give or take half an hour on either side, are most salutary for this gardener.
Councils on Aging annual picnic at French Park in North Egremont
Throughout the walk and lunch, people had the chance to reconnect with old friends but, more importantly, to make new friends.
NATURE’S TURN: Relationships thrive in and beyond the garden
With gardening season in full swing, I am also energized to redouble my efforts to interplant as many row-seeded crops as possible.
EYES TO THE SKY: Mars, the almost all-night bright planet
The luminous, ruddy planet seemed to be an ember in the dark sky, yellowish Saturn to its left, both atop the beautiful Scorpion constellation.
NATURE’S TURN: Vegetable varieties for the 21st century garden, Part 2
In her most recent book, “Eating on the Wild Side,” health writer and food activist Jo Robinson points out that qualities vital to our well-being have been bred out of our food plants.
EYES TO THE SKY: Chasing North America’s upcoming solar eclipse
I had a chance encounter with another luminary, Joe Rao, and learned up close about how fervent astronomy enthusiasts are when strategizing to assure a spot from which to see a solar eclipse.
EYES TO THE SKY: Mercury, Jupiter, spring stars and constellations
As spring stars and constellations rise in the east and travel the heavens all night, winter’s dazzling stars and constellations are poised to set in the west before midnight.
NATURE’S TURN: The 21st-century gardener
While the media informs us about the devastating affects of carbon dioxide pollution in our atmosphere, we remain uninformed about the role of carbon as an integral part of life on our planet.
EYES TO THE SKY: NEAF – astronomy enthusiasts’ oasis
Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930, will be remembered in a NEAF presentation by his children, Alden and Annette Tombaugh.
NATURE’S TURN: Spring planting, summery weather
May 11 through 24, 2015 Mt. Washington — With the sudden onset of unseasonably hot weather, the vegetable gardener is in a tailspin. We’ve gotten caught without a stretch of early spring conditions, having moved abruptly from winter deep freeze to summery heat, along with drought. I’ve decided to push on with the cool season
EYES TO THE SKY: Saturn and Scorpius, Venus and Mecury, with crescent moon
In mid-January the northern hemisphere comes out of the darkest days of the year, the days on either side of the winter solstice. At a quickened pace, daylight lifts the late afternoon. An increase to 9 hours 57 minutes will be experienced on January 31.