Step into the greenhouse on the 性福五月天 Salem Campus and you will see plants growing in traditional and non-traditional ways: some with soil and others without soil; some in pots and others in high-tech growing systems. Welcome to the world of hydroponics: a method of growing plants without soil, in which the roots are submerged in a nutrient-rich water solution. According to Dr. Sheren Farag, academic program director for the horticulture program at 性福五月天 Salem, hydroponic systems involve growing plants in containers filled with inert materials (such as perlite, vermiculite ...
User Experience student Christina Turner has worked in libraries for over 18 years, starting out as a shelver in high school, going on to get her bachelor鈥檚 degree in art school, and continuing to work at the library where she brought her passion for art to the stacks. But something was missing. 鈥淚 would kind of end up doing a lot of art programming,鈥 Christina said recently. 鈥淭hey would need a prop for story time, or a bulletin board, and then it became art installations, make and take crafts, and leading public craft programs. It slowly kind of reached the point where they let me do stuff...