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22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
There is a forest reserve near my home where I enjoy taking hikes on the weekends. In the forest, there are two small ponds. One is directly adjacent to one of the trails that offers a beautiful view in the Fall as the leaves begin to change, and the...
21 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Taibah
Every second counts: What if every couple of seconds we lost world forest the size of a football court? Today,21 March 2021 we celebrate International Day of Forests. This year's theme is "Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being". As...
15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
I had another free day this weekend and decided to head out to a forest reserve I had never visited before. The reserve has mixed stands of pine and hardwood that ring along the slopes and valleys that border the reserve's central lake. The undulati...
14 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
I decided to go for another walk this weekend to test a new camera I am borrowing. The location I visited is a small forest reserve and environmental education center with stands of both pine and mixed oak forest. Attached are images of various funga...
23 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Sarchimor Rather than a single variety, the term 'Sarmichor' refers to the subset of coffee varieties derived from the successful cross of the Villa Sarchi and Timor Hybrid coffee varieties. In effort to preempt the global spread of coffee leaf rust,...
22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Pacamara The Pacamara variety is the result of a cross between the Pacas and Maragogipe varieties first cultivated by the Salvadoran Institute of Coffee Research in the 1950s. While the variety inherits its short stature and high productively from th...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Villa Sarchi Like Caturra, and Pacas, Villa Sarchi is a dwarf Bourbon mutant variety that exhibits a short stature and densely packed internodes as the result of a single-gene mutation. The compact shape and sturdy branches of this cultivar make it p...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Pacas Pacas is a natural mutant varietal of the Bourbon lineage that was originally discovered on farmland owned by the Pacas family located in the Santa Ana region of El Salvador in 1949. Just over a decade later, in 1960, the Salvadoran Institute f...
18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Taibah
The long fight ends well, but the war hasn't over yet. Meratus is still threatened. Hi, glad to see you again as I continue my story about the same poetry, Piluku Meratus. Previously I've talked about the background location of the poem. About Mera...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Daryl Tan
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards that socially conscious investors use to screen a company’s operations. Companies can also use the ESG frameworks to develop strategies which allow for financial sustainabilit...
