Air's Wild Acres

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

Category: Travel

The environmental effects of war and peace

I’ve been spending some time in the last few weeks reading “The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov” by Peter Pringle, which I have wanted to read for some time due to my mad science crush on… 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
“If you got a tattoo of an insect…

… what would it be?” one of my friends recently asked me (who, has a tattoo of a green lacewing). In the few days prior to that, I had spent some time working with an… Read more
Inspiration

A conversation I just had with a 41 year old coworker: Me: Where did you meet your wife? Him: In Tierra del Fuego Me: Aww! That’s one of the places my Grampa rode his motorcycle… Read more
Exploring Texcoco de Mora.

CIMMYT is located about 5 km from the town of Texcoco de Mora, which is roughly 25 kilometers north and east of Mexico City. Apparently, Texcoco was once a major Aztec city, located on a… Read more
Panama 2012

ITEC Students Todd Cline, Margie Tomann, myself, and Kevin McLean in Bocas del Toro, Panama Read more