We all know that winter is the off-season for gardeners and farmers, since cold, short days are good for planning the next year’s crops, but not for planting, tending or harvesting. Not true for the seaweed farmers; they welcome the cold. Kelp, a type of seaweed, is a winter crop, and so kelp farmers from […]
What’s That Giant Sucking Noise At The Harbor? If anything slips through our beach clean-ups, hopefully it gets sucked up by our marine trash skimmer. Installed this month in Stamford Harbor off the Harbor Point boardwalk, this first trash skimmer in Connecticut can collect up to 50 pounds of debris per day, including the micro-debris in […]
The Fourth of July explodes around Long Island Sound. Literally. Our waterfront becomes the gathering place for fireworks celebrations from Greenwich all the way to Greenport. Fireworks over the Sound are the annual reminder that Summer is here and we need to grab these evenings while they last. And with summer and fun and fireworks […]
Parents and educators agree that passion and persistence are critical to developing strong, resilient, successful students. While schools endeavor to support these traits, much of a student’s academic year can be an orderly, even overly prescribed pathway of structured learning. Research backs up the premise that student learning changes when it happens outdoors. A recent […]
Protecting your skin from the sun’s UV rays should be a consideration whenever the sun shines, but never more so than now, as we head into the season of the sun’s greatest intensity. The solution used to be simple and the benefits obvious: apply and re-apply a sunscreen of at least (you fill in the […]
Hoping to see the ecological wonders of the natural world? No need to travel to the Galapagos or Costa Rica or Alaska. Extraordinary events unfold right here, at your local beach, in the local ecosystem of Long Island Sound! Yellowstone might have massive elk migrations and Nebraska can boast the Sandhill cranes, but we have […]
