We want to understand why in some areas people have maintained the environment and their resources alongside the local agriculture industry.

Farmer Earl is new to the fair. He is a ventriloquist who teaches lessons about agriculture. His shows are geared for little children and families and he does a lot of interacting with his audience.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

It's not a fun feeling, especially in this kind of environment where the more a home team gets up, the harder it is to come back. We were making mistakes in the first half and really didn't make too many in the second half. We just tried to go out and score as many points as possible.

We tested our model using known flow parameters and environmental conditions of perennial saline springs in the Mars analog environment of the Canadian High Arctic.

A lot of people have a negative stereotype. We've had a big push in educating people to know what agriculture and natural science is.