For the second time in three years, Yale has earned a gold rating for sustainability affirming the University's leadership role and providing valuable insight.
The Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians have announced the 2021 Gold Award recipients in upper East Tennessee. Seven of the 29 recipients are from the Tri-Cities.
Since 1916, thousands of Girl Scouts across the country have earned the Girl Scoutsâ highest honor, now called the Girl Scout Gold Award, for demonstrating extraordinary leadership and making sustainable change in their communities. Nationally, only 6 percent of all eligible Girl Scouts achieve the Gold Award.
âOur communities have been positively impacted by the vision, leadership and dedication of each of our Gold Award girls,â said Lynne Fugate, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians. âThis high honor required hours of hard work and the leadership skills that they have been developing during their years as a Girl Scout.â
Human rights and growing veggies make a wonderful match
Maine-based Pine Root Farm is a woman-owned and woman-operated farm that recently built its second greenhouse. “Seven years ago, Ruby Nelson and her husband Gideon Knapp built everything from scratch”, says Emily Cai, who is currently working as an apprentice at the farm that has around 14 acres of fields and two, brand new greenhouses.
Before building the first greenhouse, Pine Root Farm’s vegetables were all grown on open fields. Pine Root Farms recently built its second greenhouse. “Ruby and I constructed it mostly just the two of us, with some help from Gideon. Luckily, Ruby had done some greenhouse building already, so with her experience, we were able to build it. When we were putting the plastic on, it’s recommended to do it with several people, but we managed to do it with just the three of us, despite the strong wind at the time. At one point I feared the plastic would become a sail and blow us all away, b