Writing for External Websites
SAGE Magazine Summer Blog: Sonali Bhasin in New York
At 3 am on Sunday morning, while waiting for the 2 train to make an appearance at a crowded platform in Brooklyn, I sat down next to a group of noisy young tourists my age. Head down, music plugged in, I focused on drowning out the noise around me when yet another garbled announcement about schedule changes played overhead. I looked up, around, and – to my surprise – straight into the friendly smile of one the tourists sitting next to me, with his hand outstretched in a high five.
Terrapin Bright Green Blog: Rethinking Restoration Ecology
In 1970’s Chicago, restorationists began to restore the tallgrass prairie that once covered a large portion of Illinois before the land was settled. As the prairie was farmed by settlers, the grazing animals and prairie fires that once kept the savannah landscape open became rarer. The prairie was taken over by invasive grasses, the native oak trees surrounded by buckthorns, box elders and Siberian elms. Two hundred years later, Steve Packard, who pioneered the restoration movement did so because he believed we had “almost lost one of the richest landscapes on the continent” (Packard, 1988).
Encircl: An Ode to a Farm and Food Hub Conference in Hudson Valley
As the room murmurs over locally-sourced lunch and farm fresh produce
I'm fired up by overheard conversations
"Soil is your foundation"
"We finished the last of our preserves just as
fresh strawberries appeared at our local farmstand"
At 3 am on Sunday morning, while waiting for the 2 train to make an appearance at a crowded platform in Brooklyn, I sat down next to a group of noisy young tourists my age. Head down, music plugged in, I focused on drowning out the noise around me when yet another garbled announcement about schedule changes played overhead. I looked up, around, and – to my surprise – straight into the friendly smile of one the tourists sitting next to me, with his hand outstretched in a high five.
Terrapin Bright Green Blog: Rethinking Restoration Ecology
In 1970’s Chicago, restorationists began to restore the tallgrass prairie that once covered a large portion of Illinois before the land was settled. As the prairie was farmed by settlers, the grazing animals and prairie fires that once kept the savannah landscape open became rarer. The prairie was taken over by invasive grasses, the native oak trees surrounded by buckthorns, box elders and Siberian elms. Two hundred years later, Steve Packard, who pioneered the restoration movement did so because he believed we had “almost lost one of the richest landscapes on the continent” (Packard, 1988).
Encircl: An Ode to a Farm and Food Hub Conference in Hudson Valley
As the room murmurs over locally-sourced lunch and farm fresh produce
I'm fired up by overheard conversations
"Soil is your foundation"
"We finished the last of our preserves just as
fresh strawberries appeared at our local farmstand"