aea365 Tagxedo Good Morning! here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based on frequency. Here’s an example that I made today using the AEA square logo and the text from the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators . Ministry of Controversy #TBT What’s Invasive? Telling People What They Can’t Plant In Their Yards The debate over invasive species won’t go away any time soon. We’re sure that many would still have issues with Rant co-founder Michele Owens views on flag iris and other problem plants.
This Imperfect Plot: Gardening Blog: Organic Gardening Driving to work a few weeks ago, I heard a Fresh Air podcast of Terry Gross interviewing Sandor Katz, the author of The Art of Fermentation. He talked about how fermentation is the “the flavorful space between fresh and rotten” and just how easy it is to ferment your garden harvest. I was instantly hooked on the idea. Pearltrees Extension Make a lasagna gardening bed in easy steps Lasagna gardening is just as wonderful as it sounds. You choose the “pan” (a raised bed or a piece of ground), add layers of brown and green, then top with Compostex fabric and let the soil microorganisms do the “cooking”! You’ll have to wait longer than an hour for the lasagna bed—it could take up to a year—but when it’s ready you can plant right into a bed full of fluffy compost that your seeds and seedlings will find delicious. Lasagna gardening is a boon for the lazy but patient gardener In our latest video Tricia starts a lasagna gardening bed on part of her lawn. It’s really a slow compost pile in one regular shaped area.
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