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Vignettes

Photo by Maria Patriquin
" To see takes us further than to explain but explaining communicates more precisely than seeing" - A.M.K. Muller

The vignettes combine a short essay with one or a few images to introduce a crop or livestock species or a practice or a process in agriculture to biology students who have little or no background in agriculture. They are prepared by students and the instructor in the Agroecosystems class. A selection is presented here.

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Categories: 1. Crops 2. Livestock 3. General 4. Weeds and Domestication       Frames Version

1. Crops

  • Apios americana (Indian Potato)
  • Apples
  • Carambola
  • Coffee
  • Cranberry
  • Fababean
  • Okra
  • Rubber
  • Sorghum
  • Tea
  • Tomato

    2. Livestock

  • Araucana Chicken
  • Emu
  • Guinea Fowl
  • Jersey Cow
  • Large White Swine
    		•

    3. General

    Beans and
    Maize    		 Blueberry
    Culture    		 Intensive wheat
    Late Rice Clover
    Cover Crop
    Reducing
    Compaction
    Brush walls
    for Biodiversity
    		 Grazing
    Management    		 Livestock as
    Savings Account
    Protein vs
    Yield
    Legumes:
    N Specialists
    Alley Cropping

    4. Weeds and Domestication of Crops

    Probably no single practice in agriculture is more disruptive than that of weed control, whether conducted with herbicides or by mechanical control. Yet weeds also have benefits, and we don't really want to eliminate them altogether. These vignettes explore various aspects of the biology of weeds and their roles and control in agroecosystems.