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Ikizukuri: As Fresh As Seafood Can Get

a featured contributor — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 15:49:13 +0000

Traffic rushes past you and pedestrians scramble on foot in the loud and incredibly dense Tokyo city streets. Japan has a culture and language you know little about, but after all, you came here to learn. First things first, though. You’re so hungry, you could eat a zebra. You walk into the nearest building that looks like a restaurant. You’ve decided you’ll take anything they have. As you wander in,

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Florida’s Invasive Serpent: The Burmese Python

a featured contributor — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 08:15:53 +0000

A few thousand years ago, the Kissimmee River freely trickled south over 11,000 miles of Florida’s land, creating a vast, thin sheet of water that spread over much of the state’s southern half. Over the next couple thousand years, ponds, marshes, and forests developed creating nearly half of Florida’s delicately balanced ecosystem. Four-fifths of that land eventually went to farming and development. In 1947, Everglades National Park opened in order

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Venetucci Farm: An Agricultural Role Model

a featured contributor — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:07:58 +0000

Venetucci Farm is one of Colorado Springs’ beloved local assets. It has come a long way over the years. The Venetucci family began plowing the fields off the dirt roads outside the city in the 1930s. Growing up, Nick Venetucci watched his father work long, hard hours in a coal mine. He wanted to earn enough money to buy the family a small plot of farmland. Earning the funding for

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