/tags/environmental-issues/ Recent content in environmental issues on Rootstalk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:37:23 +0000 /past-issues/volume-iv-issue-2/manoylov-peaches-meet-corn/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:37:23 +0000 /past-issues/volume-iv-issue-2/manoylov-peaches-meet-corn/ As a Georgia native, I thought the Midwest meant corn and cows and people who said “baggy” as “bayggy.” It wasn’t until my first year in Iowa that I realized how charming the sleepy little state could be. At sixteen years old, a junior in high school, I set out for Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in Milford, Iowa for a conservation biology class. The field station was established in 1909, and the stone cabin classrooms bore evidence of a century of weathering.