Air's Wild Acres

Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.

Category: Regenerative Agriculture

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  • Creative connections

    Creative connections

    I love the website Brain Pickings. This, in particular,  is pretty fantastic in thinking about identity and how we come to create knowledge: “The idea that in order for us to truly create and contribute… Read more

  • Camel spiders for the win!

    Camel spiders for the win!

    Since I’m writing and analyzing my data these days, and haven’t spent hardly any time in the field since 2013, I figured it would be a nice time to have a #flashbackfriday to a video… Read more

  • Patterns and pastures.

    In the recent weeks, I passed my comprehensive exam, visited with a fantastic Carabidae specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (another #loveyourtaxonomist post is likely to follow about this trip), and camped at one… Read more

  • I really don’t like milk, but I love my job…

    I really hate milk. I hate it. So much. As is the case with some young parents, mine weren’t particularly versed in childhood nutrition. But, somewhere along the line, my mother decided that my sister and… Read more

  • Excited Scientists?

    I’ve had several interactions with people in the last few weeks which have lead me to question what level of enthusiasm is “appropriate” for science. Quite commonly I am one of the loudest and most… Read more

  • Podcasts, selfies, and specimens

    Podcasts, selfies, and specimens

    One of my entomology colleagues, Brittany Dodson, and I were recently discussing the idea of starting a blog. I had commented that I rarely post anything in my actual blog, and the most recent post… Read more

  • Snow

    The snow makes getting a burrito much more difficult. Read more

  • Sentinel Waxworms

    I expanded my sentinel waxworm sampling to include more samples early in the Spring. While we’ve been sampling with waxworms after crop emergence for several years, this year I wanted to see if we could… Read more

  • Insect IDs

    Recently, I was asked why entomologists spend so much time google image searching arthropods for something similar to a specimen they are trying to ID.  I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, it… Read more

  • A few days at CIMMYT

    I spent a lot of time planning research and a lot of time meeting people this week.  It was awesome.  Being at CIMMYT is something dreams are made of, and no one ever told me… Read more