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Torturing the Data Reprise: Grant Proposals

Anneliese Abbott

Apr 113 min read

Torturing the Data Reprise: Grant Proposals

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

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Lab Culture: Inside an Agricultural Research Lab Group

Anneliese Abbott

Apr 43 min read

Lab Culture: Inside an Agricultural Research Lab Group

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

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Torturing the Data: How to Make Sure Your Scientific Research is Significant

Anneliese Abbott

Mar 283 min read

Torturing the Data: How to Make Sure Your Scientific Research is Significant

I loved science when I was a kid—especially biology. I loved learning more about nature, going out in the woods to look at plants and...

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Peanut Butter Decomposition: My Successful C:N Ratio Experiment

Anneliese Abbott

Feb 83 min read

Peanut Butter Decomposition: My Successful C:N Ratio Experiment

Six years after my failed pot fertility experiment at OSU, it happened again. The instructor for my Soil Microbiology class at the...

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Perils of Permaculture: Why the C:N Ratio of Mulch Matters

Anneliese Abbott

Feb 13 min read

Perils of Permaculture: Why the C:N Ratio of Mulch Matters

Fresh out of my first year of agronomy classes, I was excited to do my first internship at an organically managed CSA. My job at the...

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Sterile Organics? Pitfalls of "Organic" Greenhouse Research

Anneliese Abbott

Jan 183 min read

Sterile Organics? Pitfalls of "Organic" Greenhouse Research

I’ll admit it. My first attempt at designing an “organic” fertility experiment was a complete failure. When I started my forages class at...

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Anneliese Abbott

Dec 28, 20232 min read

Year-End THANKSgiving: 2023 in Review

If, like me, you get emails from nonprofit organizations, your inbox is probably filling up this week with calls for year-end giving. But...

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Not By Bread Alone: Why I Have Peace This Christmas

Anneliese Abbott

Dec 21, 20233 min read

Not By Bread Alone: Why I Have Peace This Christmas

This year, we had a wonderful bumper crop of almost every vegetable in our garden. For months, our hallway and entryway were full of...

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How Would Bromfield Farm in 2015? A Modern Malabar Farm Tour

Anneliese Abbott

Nov 30, 20232 min read

How Would Bromfield Farm in 2015? A Modern Malabar Farm Tour

Korre Boyer, the park manager at Malabar when I visited in 2015, reminded me a lot of my fellow agronomy students at Ohio State. He was...

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Anneliese Abbott

Nov 27, 20233 min read

The Malabar Farm Barn Mural

As I walked past the big barn at Malabar Farm with Tom in 2015, I was surprised and pleased to see a freshly painted mural on the barn...

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Anneliese Abbott

Nov 20, 20233 min read

Inside the Big House at Malabar Farm

Tom Bachelder is passionate about Malabar Farm. After retiring from his career as an art teacher at the Mansfield Public Schools, Tom...

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The Hills of Ohio: My First Visit to Malabar Farm

Anneliese Abbott

Nov 13, 20232 min read

The Hills of Ohio: My First Visit to Malabar Farm

I knew I was getting close to Malabar Farm when I started to see hills. Before I took my first visit to Malabar Farm in 2015, I had spent...

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Anneliese Abbott

Sep 29, 20233 min read

If I Did an Oral History: A Biographical Interview with Anneliese Abbott

When I do oral history interviews with people, I always ask off the recording if they have any questions for me. And what they usually...

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Into the Archives: My introduction to archival research

Anneliese Abbott

Jul 27, 20233 min read

Into the Archives: My introduction to archival research

Archival research is the gold standard in the historical profession. Sure, you can do good historical research using published primary...

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Anneliese Abbott

Jul 6, 20232 min read

How It All Began

I had never seen so many books in one place in my life. It wasn’t my first time in The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library, but I...

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Welcome to the History of Organic Farming website!

Anneliese Abbott

Jul 5, 20232 min read

Welcome to the History of Organic Farming website!

Welcome to the first-ever blog post on my new History of Organic Farming in America website! I’ve been researching the history of organic...

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History of Organic Farming in America

By Anneliese Abbott

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