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‘Soil Your Undies’: Keepers of Mono Pollinator Garden bury underwear to learn more about soil health

October 9, 2020 [email protected]_84 bury, garden, Health, Keepers, Learn, Mono, pollinator, Soil, underwear, Undies

Volunteers at Mono’s pollinator garden gave new meaning to the term “soiling your undies” this year.

Of course, they didn’t do so in the traditional sense.

Earlier this year, the volunteers at Mono Pollinator Garden decided to celebrate the opening of their gardening season with a “Soil Your Undies” test that has become quite popular in North America.

“It was kind of funny, but it was also educational,” said Jutta Holdenreid, head of the garden maintenance group. “We had done it in the past and just wanted to repeat it.”

The test, with its tongue-in-cheek name, is built on sound biological and scientific principles and involves “planting” cotton underwear in various parts of the garden. The biological breakdown caused by microbes in the soil is expected to cause some degeneration to the cotton fabric.

Those soil microbe levels determine how much the underwear would break down and disappear, which helps to demonstrate soil health.

“We wanted to learn a bit more about how we could enrich the soil that’s there,” said Trish Keachie, a volunteer member of the maintenance group.

“This was an experiment that could give us a clearer idea of where we needed to put more effort into providing nutrients for the soil.”

When the planting and maintenance season began, the underwear were planted in four different areas of the garden in order to gauge different levels of organic material and fertility.

In mid-July, volunteers dug up the undies and evaluated their appearance.

“The (tests) showed the condition of the soil in different areas, and whether it was good soil or bad soil,” said Holdenreid. “We now know where things need to be improved.”

Microbe activity was recorded in three of the test areas, with only one area failing the test.

This means that there is a very low level of organic material and poor soil health. The volunteers noted that there was a correlation between the low test score and poor plant growth in that area.

“In that area, we’ll compost more heavily and then try this test again in another year or so to see whether it’s made any difference,” said Keachie.

The garden is already planted, but this knowledge will help the team to be able to know why certain areas aren’t thriving and how to improve growth.

Although volunteers don’t think this experiment will alter mainstream agricultural soil testing, they found it was a fun way to evaluate their own soil.

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“In part, we’re just trying to draw attention to the garden by doing something fun and interesting that might let people know the garden is here and cause them to come and take a look,” said Keachie.

Mono Pollinator Garden is located on Hockley Road, one kilometre east of Highway 10, and is open to visitors.

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Learn How Interior Designer Kristin Corley Revamped Her Career With an Executive MBA.

October 6, 2020 [email protected]_84 career, Corley, Designer, executive, interior, Kristin, Learn, MBA, Revamped

Author Nathan Watson – October 6, 2020October 6, 2020
Kristin Corley, Auburn Executive MBA, Class of 2008. Photo via Nathan Watson for Bham Now

For working professionals wanting to boost their careers, an executive MBA allows you to learn valuable business skills without interrupting your career or personal life. Just ask Kristin Corley, a local professional who transformed her interior design career with the skills and knowledge earned through the Auburn Executive MBA program.

What is an Executive MBA?

Photo via Auburn Harbert School of Business on Facebook

A Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is designed to help graduates better understand the ways a business functions. An MBA is an incredibly versatile degree that gives you the knowledge and confidence to make information based, budget-related decisions regardless of job title or business model. 

But for many working professionals, an MBA—with its two-year, full-time class schedule—simply isn’t feasible. That’s where an Executive MBA shines.

Tailored to professionals with eight or more years of progressive experience, the Auburn Executive MBA program utilizes the significant knowledge and experience of students to ground business principles and theory with examples of real-world application. The program blends intensive residencies with distance courses for the best of both worlds—classroom instruction that provides interaction with faculty and peers and online learning that offers the flexibility to balance career, family and rigorous education. This delivery model binds students into a tight-knit cohort that later becomes a professional network offering benefits long after graduation. 

Kristin Corley, 2008 Auburn EMBA graduate

Kristin outside her office at BL Harbert International. Photo via Nathan Watson for Bham Now

To learn more about Auburn’s EMBA program, we spoke with alumnus Kristin Corley, Class of 2008. Prior to pursuing an EMBA, Kristin graduated from Auburn with a degree in interior design. After working several years in a local firm, Kristin realized that expanding her understanding of business strategy and finance would be helpful in her career. So she began looking for a program that could help fill that gap in her skill set.

For Kristin, the Auburn EMBA program checked all the boxes. At the time, she was balancing her work schedule and taking care of her four-year-old, so a traditional program was out of the question.

How did the Auburn EMBA fit in with your work schedule?

Kristin: “Auburn’s EMBA program is perfectly tailored for people in my situation—working professionals that don’t have the time capacity for standard classes. That flexibility allowed me to work on class projects on Saturday mornings, rather than trying to find time to be in a classroom each day. And since the program is online, it didn’t require students to be in the area. In fact, I believe only three people in my class actually lived in Alabama.”

Kristin Corley in her office at BL Harbert International. Photo via Nathan Watson for Bham Now

For Kristin, one of her most valuable takeaways was the improvement of her communication skills. The Auburn EMBA taught Kristin how to

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What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps

September 17, 2020 [email protected]_84 1950s, cooks, kitchen, Learn, leftovers, lettuce, Todays, wraps

What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps

Cucumber and Radish Finger Sandwiches


What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps


What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps

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What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps

Chicken Amandine Casserole


What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps


What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from leftovers to lettuce wraps



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Poodle skirts and leather jackets. Rock ’n’ roll. Midcentury furniture. There’s a lot to love about the 1950s.

For all that nostalgia, the food of the period is rarely on the list of things we appreciate today. Aspics and Jell-O salads, gallons of mayonnaise in everything. There are plenty of reasons that chapter in America’s culinary history is easy to forget.

But home cooks in the 1950s knew a few things that still resonate today, especially considering the scarcity and uncertainty we’re all facing with the coronavirus pandemic. This week we’re celebrating some of that wisdom.

Despite its bad rap, much of the food of the ’50s was lighter in calories and easier on the wallet while remaining flavorful and entertaining. And those lessons can do our bodies and budgets a lot of good today.

Wrap it up

In our low-carb, gluten-free modern life, there’s a lot to love about the lettuce wrap. It’s a light and refreshing way to get all the protein and vegetables our bodies need while keeping the calorie count down. And home cooks in the ’50s knew that as well.

Lettuce leaves, be they romaine, butter or iceberg, are the perfect vehicle for carrying a simple tuna, chicken or other salad in a light mayonnaise dressing. Instead of piling your next batch of tuna salad — try our version loaded with avocado and spicy ranch dressing for a flavorful change — onto a couple slices of bread, reach for a head of lettuce instead.

Stick a pick in it

One thing you could find at any midcentury gathering was food served on toothpicks. Whether it was Swedish meatballs or veggies, our predecessors were often eating those one bite at a time. And that meant giving our bodies time to process each nibble before moving on to the next.

This is a fun and easy thing to translate into today’s kitchen. Instead of a charcuterie board loaded with meats and cheese, try composing those elements into individual bites skewered on a toothpick. Or if you’re making lunch for yourself, cut that sandwich or tortilla wrap into bites and stab each with a toothpick. You’ll probably find yourself eating slower and more mindfully.

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What today’s cooks can learn from the 1950s kitchen, from lettuce wraps to leftovers

September 16, 2020 [email protected]_84 1950s, cooks, kitchen, Learn, leftovers, lettuce, Todays, wraps



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Garden Help Desk: Learn to pick summer squash in its prime | Community News

September 5, 2020 [email protected]_84 community, Desk, garden, Learn, News, pick, prime, squash, Summer

Question: My garden doesn’t look the way I want it to look, especially my summer squash. I pick the squash every weekend, but most of them are tough and bumpy, like warty. How can I fix this for next year?

Answer: This is something you can fix right now, this year. Start picking your squash more frequently.

Summer squash fruits mature very quickly. A squash that isn‘t quite ready for harvest on the day you’re out picking can reach “old age” by the time you are back in the garden harvesting again a week later.

Summer squash that is past its prime will be large and have a tough or warty skin. The color may look either bleached or darker than usual.

Try going out into the garden two or three times a week. Pick crookneck and straight neck yellow summer squash when they’re about 6-to-9-inches long and zucchini varieties at about 8-to-12-inches long, depending on the variety.

Don’t let your squash reach the size that strikes fear in the hearts of your neighbors. Pick them while they’re younger and you’ll never have trouble keeping up with the volume.

The squash will be more tender, flavorful and nutritious; if you do end up with more than you can use, your neighbors will be glad to see you instead of hiding from you. More frequent picking also will help to prolong the harvest from your plants.

Depending on the variety, crookneck and straight neck yellow squash is ready to pick when the color is a warm yellow without green undertones, and the blossom has dried. The blossom might or might not drop off the squash. Pick zucchini as soon as it reaches the ideal size for you.

Check out today’s photos for examples of squash at their best.

Question: I live in central Utah County. Is it OK to turn off my sprinklers for the season now?

Answer: It’s a little too early to stop watering. That little cold spell this week probably surprised more than a few gardeners, but we’re not done with summer just yet.

We still have plenty of warm-to-hot weather ahead. Trees and shrubs will still need a deep soak every 7-10 days. Flower beds and vegetable gardens will still need to be watered, too.

What you can do now is begin to increase the interval between waterings but continue to water deeply each time. If you’ve been watering twice a week, about once every three days, now is the time to increase the interval to once every four days for a couple of weeks, then once every five days, and so on, until you’re watering your lawn about once every seven to 10 days when it’s time to shut off your sprinkler system sometime in October.

Depending on the weather, broadleaf and needleleaf evergreen trees and shrubs will need a deep soak at least once after you’ve shut off your sprinkler system in the fall. This helps the plants and soil go into the winter

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Homeschooling and Gardening – What Your Child Can Learn and Grow in a Garden

March 28, 2020 [email protected]_84 Child, garden, gardening, Grow, Homeschooling, Learn

The experience of growing a garden can help home school students learn a great deal. A garden can be very rewarding and also very frustrating. Growing a successful garden does not have to be difficult. Here are some things that your home school student can learn from working on a garden:

1. Practical demonstration of how plants grow – You can read all you want about plant cycles in a textbook, but until you see it happen before your eyes, it does not always make sense. Maintaining a garden shows children how a seed grows into a plant and how weeds grow right along with plants. They see a demonstration of how weeds can choke out a plant if they are not properly cared for.

2. Problem solving skills – When your plant does not grow or you see holes or bugs all over your plants, you need to figure out what to do. This might cause motivation for further research on how to take care of the problem.

3. Growing plants can take some patience and perseverance – sometimes it's hard to wait for that seed to pop out of the ground or for the fruit to appear on their plant. Sometimes those pesky weeds keep coming up and need to be pulled and pulled again. Sometimes you need to keep tending to the plant that gets bugs or diseased. Regular maintenance of weeds is required to have a successful garden.

4. Gardening can be good therapy – After working hard and maintaining a garden it can be a wonderful experience to just go out in your garden and walk around to look at the plants and the wonders of God's creation.

5. Multiple grades can benefit – A two year old and a 100 year old person can learn from and enjoy a garden. A small child can help plant and cover seeds over with dirt along with picking a few weeds. An older child can pick quite a few more weeds and learn about how the flower turns into the harvest. All ages can help with harvesting and processing the food that was harvested.

Even children living in a city can benefit from gardening. All you need is some dirt, a seed, water and sunlight. Try some easy plants first like: carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, lettuce, and many more. Sometimes maintaining a garden can teach your child much more than they would ever learn from a book. There are many benefits for both parent and student.

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