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Understanding Food And Climate Change: A Systems Perspective, Megan Brockelbank

Sustainability Education Resources

Climate change will profoundly affect our lives in many ways, even down to the very food we eat. Food is essential for survival and our complex food system, and all that depends on it, face a big threat with climate change. Throughout the semester we will explore the links between the food system and our changing climate with an emphasis on systems thinking. In science we tend to segregate, looking at just one part of a system, while systems thinking looks at the whole picture. Using this approach, we will think critically about how to build a more resilient food …

Contemplative Practice In Sustainable Food & Farming, Sarah Berquist

Sustainability Education Resources

PowerPoint presentation at the Institute of Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development at UMass Amherst. Offers contemplative practices applied in the Sustainable Food and Farming program including yoga; breathwork; reflective writing and dialogue; stories and poetry; and exploring personal values.

Evaluation Of Corn Gluten Meal For Preemergence Weed Management In Cranberry Sare One 13-193, Hilary A. Sandler, Katherine Ghantous

Cranberry Station Research Reports and Surveys

No abstract provided.

Evaluation The Nitrogen Needs And Efficiency Of Rizhobia Strains To Provide Nitrogen To Chipilin (Crotalaria Longirostrata Hook. And Arn.), Fatima Del Rosario Camarillo Castillo

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

EVALUATION THE NITROGEN NEEDS AND EFFICIENCY OF RHIZOBIA STRAINS TO PROVIDE NITROGEN TO CHIPILIN (Crotalaria Longirostrata HOOK. AND ARN.)

FEBRUARY OF 2013

FATIMA DEL ROSARIO CAMARILLO CASTILLO, B.A., AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF CHAPINGO

M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Directed by: Professor Francis X. Mangan

Chipilin (Crotalaria Longirostrata) is a leguminous plant native to Central America and Southern Mexico and used in the preparation of traditional dishes in this region. Starting in 2009, farmers in Massachusetts have been growing chipilin with a weekly production of 800 kg∙ha^-1. However, as much as 300 kg∙ha^-1 of nitrogen has been …

Winter 1967, James J. Reidy, S. H. Whitter, J. W. Tanner

Turf Bulletin

Massachusetts Turf and Lawn Grass Council
Better Turf Through Research and Education

Summer 1967, Geoffrey S. Cornish, William G. Robinson, Irene H. Stuckey, James B. Beard, Joseph L. Beasley, E. H. Wheeler, George A. Bean, V. Allan Bandel, Peter A. Kaskeski, Herbert C. Fordham, Lewis Hodgkinson, Elwyn E. Deal

Turf Bulletin

Massachusetts Turf and Lawn Grass Council
Better Turf Through Research and Education

Turf Clippings Conference Proceedings, The Stockbridge School Turf Management Club

Turf Clippings

1. Recent Developments Affecting Golf Course Design (page 1)
2. From the Editor (3)
3. Five Year Results (3)
4. Turf Management Club News (4)
5. Quotes from 1960 Seniors (5)
6. Poa annua - - Friend or Foe (6)
7. The Horticulture Show (7)
8. Cartoons (8)
9. Message from the Winter School President of 1960 (10)
10. The Most Outstanding Turf Senior for 1959 (10)
11. The Value of the Proper Use of Lime (11)
12. Summer Placement (12)
13. A Greenhouse on the Golf Course (13)
14. More Opportunities in the Future for the Aggressive Superintendent at Country Clubs (14)
15. Soil, Sawdust and Turfgrass (15)
16. Picture - Senior Stockbridge Turf majors …