- Written by Jerry Hagler
- Category: Gelb Plot
Two years ago, the Phillips Academy Biology Department, with the help of the Phillips Academy Office of Physical Plant (especially with Russell Stott, Senior Manager--Campus Design, Sustainability & Grounds), established five experimental garden plots on a portion of the Gelb lawn just north of the Gelb Science Center. Each of these plots are small, roughly 15' x 4' in size, but are protected from the usual groundskeeping activities that keep the surrounding PA lawns in such good
- Written by Jerry Hagler
- Category: Cochran Cemetery
Cemeteries are fascinating places. Plots of land where, traditionally, humans bury the dead, they sometimes serve as places that almost exist out of time, preserving a record of the people who lived in the adjoining communities going back to the first settling of the area by humanity. Often quiet, well-tended but also protected and largely devoid of people, cemeteries sometimes serve as areas that straddle the developed and natural world. In that capacity, they can be home to a
Read more: Introduction to The Chapel Cemetery Biology Diversity Project
- Written by Jerry Hagler
- Category: Gelb Plot
Dragonflies are remarkable beasties......proto-typically big "bug" eyes, four see-through wings, catchy coloration and interesting and complex flight patterns, these nasty insect predators can be seen all over the place flitting about picking off smaller insects for a quick meal or perching precariously at the end of a grass stalk. Since we started the experimental garden plots over next to the Gelb Science Building (north side), dragonflies have shown up in the area in abundance.....no
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