2025 Baker Creek Heirloom Harvest Festival - Highlights You Missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXSPBoVhQLk

This Genius Farming Hack Stores Rain Like a Battery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDv4FCc0vz0

Healing Wounds of Light: Birds, Cities and the Fast, Slow, and Forgotten Violence of Artificial Illumination This post is an entry in our ninth annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest. This year’s theme is “Light.” By Charlotte Leib “Surely you’ve heard about the penguins,” behavioral ecologist Joanna Burger remarks. I am speaking with Burger, a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers, because I’ve reached an impasse—the historian’s equivalent of night. I’ve been [...]
https://themetropole.blog/2025..../10/08/healing-wound

California’s Invisible Infrastructure: What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility By Genevieve Carpio Being a historian often means living with the contradictions of the present. As an Angeleno, I see my city in pain. There is resilience and courage too, but the suffering caused by the recent immigration raids is suffocating. As a professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, and as a Latina going [...]
https://themetropole.blog/2025..../10/07/californias-i

Why Watering Once a Day Doesn’t Work for Me - Organic Gardening Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKOce1DrKfE