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Local Wild Living Soil 2020 at Turtle Lake Refuge
During this course, I gained further insight into the connection of mind, body and soul. There are so many alternative healing therapies out there, and as a 23-year-old who’s had about 6 years experience working with nutritionists and other health-minded professionals and herbalists, I have so many questions. We live in a world where where…
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Open Sourced Herbalism: a Call to Action
Creative Commons: a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. According to their website, the group strives to: Provide Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organization in the world a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for…
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Chaga & Frank
Content created for 2020 Telluride Mushroom Festival Meet Franklin – my lucky charm foraging through mushrooms. Every time I’ve found Chaga this season, he’s been with me and this time he was clearly just as excited as me! Chaga is a parasitic polypore. Although Innotus obliquus is usually found on birch trees, but can also…
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Ganoderma Tsugae in New Hampshire
I stumbled across from Ganoderma tsugae while hiking in New Hampshire earlier this week. Hemlock Varnish Shelf or Hemlock Reishi, the fungi’s common name, can be found on hemlock trees or stumps. They’re know for their varnished red/orange appearance, with white or pale pores that become darker when bruised. The Hemlock Reishi is saprophytic which…
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Interdisciplinary Studies Summary Synthesis
As I reflect on my time at Plymouth State as an IDS major with a program titled, Marketing for Integrative Health, I’m realizing that my college experience has been far greater than I could have ever imagined. My work with different nutritionists showed me how necessary it is to be an interdisciplinary when promoting a…
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Capstone Proposal
For my capstone project, I plan on discussing probiotics, general gut heath and how fermented foods can help with body function. From a general nutrition standpoint, I will discuss foods that are prebiotics and foods that people should seek and foods that people should try to avoid to feel their best. I plan on conducting…
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An Intellectual Journey
My intellectual journey has been comprised of different phases in my life. To be the person I am today, I haven’t done many things in a traditional way. I will have lived and gone to two schools in three different states and attended two different universities by the time I get a bachelor’s degree from…
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Thoughts on, “No Textbooks, No Lectures, and No Right Answers. Is This What Higher Education Needs?”
Click link for original article Something that really struck me about this article is that students were challenged to ‘keep trying.’ I appreciated how the article talks about how intangible big problems can seem and the challenge faced for students in breaking it down and for teachers on teaching students how to do that. The…
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Recap of Healthy Living Workshop
Click for link to original article. This past Tuesday, Denise Normandin, director for Healthy PSU and adjunct faculty professor for The Health and Human Performance Department here, led a Healthy Journaling Workshop. Taking place in Centre Lodge, an intimate group of attendees from different departments on campus came together to create a sense of community.…
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Recap of Accessible Presentations with Campus Accessibility Services at PSU
Yesterday afternoon a workshop was held by Lindsay Page and Hannah Davidson in collaboration with Campus Accessibility Services (CAS) here at PSU. They began by describing their physical appearance and attributes, explaining that this allows audience members with visual impairments the ability to share the same experience as other audience members. We are advised at…
