Renewable Energy- Solar (A Brief Discussion)

Introduction Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources that are essentially inexhaustible. such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished). The most important feature of renewable energy is that it can be harnessed without the release of harmful pollutants. Renewable energy is derived from natural processes that [...]

Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam

Every summer, my family road trips about 11 hours north from our home in Missouri to visit my grandma in a teeny town in Wisconsin, on the farm where my dad grew up. It’s one of those trips that we all look forward to every year, not just because it’s a chance to get away [...]

Cinnamon Roll Pie

Y2, Week Five: Summer Was So Yesterday Pie Spring in southern Wisconsin is maybe best described as bipolar. It isn’t so much a period of pleasant, mild weather as it is a violent lurching between winter and summer until one of them (hopefully summer) sticks. Just a couple of weeks ago we had a 95° [...]