Meet Bitty the Beta! Need a fun activity to do with kids at home, or just by yourself? Try some simple aquaponics in your fish tank! Meet Bitty the beta fish. She is part of our home aquaponics experiment. Aquaponics For Beginners defines aquaponics as, “the combination of fish and plants.” The reasoning being that the …
“when you met me two years ago, did you ever think one day we would be chasing a peahen through a soybean field?” The field is wet. The soybeans are only a foot tall, so it’s easy to get a shoe on either side of the row. As my legs brush against their leaves, rain …
Unveiling Sugar’s Hidden Secrets… Its fall here in Southeast Michigan, which can only mean one thing- the weather will make you super happy and want to die, sometimes both in the same day. One day it’s snowing on halloween and then the next week, its 70 and sunny. As the world around us starts to …
Chip and Chop “I almost cut my thumb clean off” I hold up my hand, the second knuckle is dashed with a bit of blood. “There’s no way that you almost cut your thumb off with the tile knife,” Ellen responds. We are standing in the near pitch-black night. Staring at each other with the …
“I’ll fix that!” my dad says loudly to the car. We all heard the gnarly sound of metal grinding metal. I look back and part of the siding of the trailer has connected with the metal poles that protects the gas towers from being rammed with incoming cars. I look at Ellen and Sara next …