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Wow! It’s hard to believe that my internship is ending. My last week coincided with the Tioga County Fair, which was a blast. I helped out on two days and was able to witness ...
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Summer is speeding along! This week marked the conclusion of my solar interviews and a shift to focus on synthesizing my interviews into final deliverables.   T and Barb and I took a road ...
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I was off on vacation for the week.

The farm interviews continued this week. I completed one community stakeholder interview and two farmer interviews on Monday. I visited Paul Barber’s farm with my field mentor, T, for a farmer interview. Paul is ...
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The interviews are underway! My work this week included many informative farm visits and conversations with community stakeholders. Monday started with a visit with some of the Tioga County Soil & Water Conservation District ...
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What a fun week! Earlier in the week, I continued to schedule farm interviews. On Thursday and Friday, Barb took T and me on a car tour of Tioga County. We visited several farms ...
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I made significant progress on my informal interviews this week. I will be interviewing individuals from four groups of people: farmers, community stakeholders, non-farming landowners, and solar developers. I created sets of questions for ...
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I have now completed a preliminary review of the literature relevant to co-location of agriculture and solar production in Tioga County. This week, I progressed on planning the interviews that will inform the educational ...
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This week I continued to read webpages and articles about the colocation of solar and agricultural land, as well as conversion of agricultural land to single-use solar development. I focused on academic literature this ...
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This week I was able to attend the Planting Fest at Tiger Farm, the Tioga Central Schools farm. Elementary school students came up to the farm with their classes to plant corn and pumpkins ...
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