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“Monterey County agriculture” by Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 For today’s blog, I will be writing on the topic of sustainable agriculture and also touch on local food security. While researching this topic, I found this very interesting website link by the TRCA that goes over food security issues howContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture food security in Canada”

By Free Clip Art – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Changes made: converted from svg to PNG, and cropped image slightly), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68751396 Part 1: As of Monday, February 24, 2020, I am now a Wikipedian that goes by the username, “Plantsrgreat”. We learned how to edit our profile and what to include in our profile.Continue reading “Becoming a Wikipedian-Updated”

For this blog, I will briefly describe the UN convention by the name “International Plant Protection Convention”. This UN convention was put into place mainly to standardize how to prevent the spread of pests when plants and plant products are being moved around. Canada abides by these conventions and it is the only treaty thatContinue reading “The International Plant Protection Convention”

Image from Smithsonian institute from Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons) Mary Agnes Chase was best known for being a grass specialist worked as a botanical illustrator. Illustration was one of the few ways that women were able to enter science at that time as a woman. Chase also around the same time was involved in theContinue reading “Mary Agnes Chase”

By, Syed Hussain “Wetland “ by David Heiserman is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 For my first blog I thought it might be a good idea to write on the pressing matter of climate change. More specifically I will be discussing the findings from a paper talking about the impacts of climate change on Wetlands,Continue reading “Effect of Climate Change on Wetlands”