Anneliese Abbott
The Desolate Year: Defending Pesticides with Horror Stories
One of the things that intrigues me most about the anti-organic rhetoric used by scientists is how unscientific and emotional it usually ...
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History of Organic Farming in America
By Anneliese Abbott
Organic History
Blog
Anneliese Abbott
Sep 123 min read
Forbidden Perspectives: How Breaking Academic Consensus Cost Me a PhD
There’s a big difference between graduate and undergraduate college classes. In most undergraduate classes, you sit and listen to a...
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Anneliese Abbott
Apr 183 min read
Toxic Labs: Why I Don't Have a Graduate Degree in Plant Science
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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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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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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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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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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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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Anneliese Abbott
Jan 252 min read
The Real Dirt on no-Till: Why Herbicides Aren't Saving the Environment
Tillage is bad. That’s the message I was getting in all of my agronomy classes at Ohio State. No-till farming was the most...
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