During a 2019 re-installation of an Early Byzantine floor fragment, Museum staff invited three members of our community—an artist, an ecologist, and an archaeologist—to offer their perspectives on this mosaic. Recognizing that there are many ways to in……Continue Reading Label Talk: Museum Mosaics—One Object, Many Voices
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Summer Grad Course in Agroecology & Grad Certificate @ UVM
Interested in agroecology and applying its transdisciplinary lens to local farms and issues? Please consider our summer graduate course PSS 311: Introduction to Agroecology. This course can be taken as a stand-alone or as the first course of our Certificate for Graduate Study in Agroecology (CGSA). We also offer it as a non-credit option, which, […]…Continue Reading Summer Grad Course in Agroecology & Grad Certificate @ UVM
The Trees are Alright
Abnormal weather always has people worrying about their trees and shrubs in the yard, and this winter is anything but normal. It’s the warm temperatures that are troubling, and many people have come up to me asking if the trees are going to be OK, or if the warm temperatures mean they are going to […]…Continue Reading The Trees are Alright
Satin Moth
I love getting emails from people concerning the landscape. After all, with more than 300 acres, there are probably things happening I’m missing. And in the chaos that is Commencement and Reunion, I was missing a big one. Professor Jeff … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Satin Moth
Emerald Ash Borer Presentation-This Wednesday
Part of my absence from the blog would be teaching my winter term class “Trees and the Urban Forest” again this semester. It’s a great class, in a super rushed sort of way all winter term classes probably are. As … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Emerald Ash Borer Presentation-This Wednesday
The Botany of Syrup
Any kid will tell you maple syrup is special, but how special? Is tapping a maple tree like putting a spigot in the trunk? And why maple? In a wonderful book I’ve written about before by Nalini M. Nadkarni called … Continue reading →…Continue Reading The Botany of Syrup
The Butternut Seed Orchard
I’ve learned this summer a wonderful way to get attention is to build a one acre, 8′ high deer exclusion fence out on South Street past Eastview, brush hog down the existing corn, and not tell anyone what we are … Continue reading →…Continue Reading The Butternut Seed Orchard