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Producer Profile: Turtle Pace Farm #servinguptheshore

8/12/2016

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Meet Doris and Paul, owners and farmers at Turtle Pace Farm in Melfa. Turtle Pace will be providing potatoes for the Serving up the Shore dinner on August 19. 

Doris and Paul grow potatoes using organic practices and a lot of craftsmanship. They take great pride in maintaining their vintage farm equipment. “We enjoy using these old tractors because they’re well suited to our operation,” said Paul. “They were designed at a time when there were a great number of small family farms, so they work very well for us.”

For more information about Turtle Pace Farm, you can watch the video above or visit the Turtle Pace Facebook page. Be sure to visit our Serving up the Shore webpage, and stay updated with the Facebook event page
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Behind the Cameras

8/9/2016

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Over the summer months we were able to generate tons of content from photos and videos to blog posts.  We have met some many great people here at the field station and locals as well! If you enjoy being outdoors and are as in love with media as you are with nature apply for this Internship! As you can see from the video above we are not used to being in front of the camera. This may have been the hardest thing we have had to do all summer! Aside from battling the mosquitoes.

This internship has taught us so much about the area and the nature that calls this place home or even just a rest stop. It has also opened our eyes to how powerful media can be in environmental education. 

The staff here at the field station is one you will find no where else. From our supervisor Elise all the way up to the director! Everyone is more than welcoming and are excited about education and that is where our personalities clicked!

Media can be used for many different purposes good or bad, but it can be useful in benefiting environmental education which for the Chincoteague Bay Field Station is what they are all about! 
Also Check out our YouTube page with ons of awesome videos from summer camps to Ghost Crabs to Serving up the Shore! 

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Hi! I'm Savannah Geary. I'm a rising senior at the University of Miami majoring in Ecosystem Science and Policy and minoring in Biology, Film, and Communications.

This internship was a fantastic experience for me. I was able to satisfy my Ecosystem Science internship requirement while working within my favorite medium.

I have a background in comedy - I've worked on UMTV's Off the Wire for three years - but my end-game goal is to be a science communicator that uses film to connect with a general audience. This internship was a really cool way to dip my toes in the field while exploring a diverse set  of beautiful ecosystems.

During my last year at UM, I'm planning on producing a series of environmental education videos for the ECO Agency on campus. I'm really excited to get to use all of the knowledge I gained over the summer!

If you're interested, you can check out more of my personal work on my YouTube channel.

My name is Cole Kresch, I am from Nazareth Pennsylvania and this internship is concluding my undergraduate degree at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania!

​This internship is unique for my major of environmental planning. Many of the students of my major for thier internship are more likely to be interning at a county conservation office back in Pennsylvania. I used my course experience as well as my love for photography to apply for an internship that was the best of both worlds. 

As I was a key role in my university newspaper The Voice as well as a photographer for all events on campus, it allowed me to almost pick up where I left off doing a lot of similar things here at The Field Station. However, in a much different environment. My major of environmental planning has given me a background in what all is happening to our environment which was a huge help for this position. I started to become interested in photography as a profession in high school which allowed me this awesome opportunity with CBFS. The Field Station does so many great things for environmental education and for locals as well!

After this internship I plan to continue growing my own photography business and also continuing my search for a job opportunity that allows me to combine my love of nature and photography. 

​You can check out my personal website at www.cnkphotography.com 
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Thanks for an awesome summer! Can't wait to see The Field Station grow even more than it already has!
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A Recipe for Building Resilient Communities

8/6/2016

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What happens when you bring together middle and high school students, college students and researchers, local families, and community members together on a beautiful day along the Chincoteague Bay, in a town that lies just two feet above sea level?  If you’re thinking a beach party, well, you’re not totally wrong.

This past June Chincoteague Bay Field Station hosted its first of a series of Community Action Days, bringing these audiences together to learn about ways to adapt to environmental changes like sea level rise.  The Action Days are student-run and learner-centered.  During our most recent event, team members broke into groups to tackle three main projects:
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Oyster Castle Installation: With 211 Oyster Castle© blocks made of concrete, the team constructed eight castles and nine walls in the intertidal zone of the shoreline.  The castles and walls serve two main purposes: to attenuate wave energy, reducing shoreline erosion, and to create a substrate for oyster recruitment and growth.
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Restoring Tidal Flow to the Marsh: Many hands and shovels were needed to carve out an old naturally occurring channel through the shell berm and beach area.  CBFS’s Sea STAR high school interns and community members lead this “big dig” and reinforced the walls of the channel with bagged oyster shell.      
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Planting Native Grasses: Another crew of volunteers including members of the Field Station’s SPARK Living Shoreline Team, planted small and large plugs of a native marsh grass species, called Spartina alterniflora, to help stabilize the shoreline.  The native plants help to trap sediments and also provide natural habitat for a variety of coastal species. 
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Through these contentious efforts, CBFS maintains Accomack County, VA's first-ever living shoreline. According to Maryland Department of Natural Resources, “Living shorelines are the result of applying erosion control measures that include a suite of techniques which can be used to minimize coastal erosion and maintain coastal processes.”  Minimizing erosion in a community that sits just a few feet above sea level is pretty important. With extreme storm events like Hurricane Sandy and Super-Storm Irene, communities like Greenbackville, VA are most likely to catch the brunt of the damage. By using green techniques for mitigating coastal erosion, CBFS hopes to use their Living Shoreline as a buffer to the residential community and to model practices that can be replicated on other properties. But it's not just staff from the non-profit who are pushing this effort forward.

Many activities at the site are youth-led. All of the project listed above that were completed during this past Community Action Day were researched and organized by a group of undergraduate students and recent graduates.  With the help of a few dozen high school students, local families, and other community members, all of the improvements were implemented.  A cadre of local families known as the SPARK Living Shoreline Team will monitor the effects of these actions over the course of the next year to determine the success of the actions.  A participatory model is at the core of the Living Shoreline; students and families engage in all facets of the project, using scientific methods to produce knowledge about the local issue of sea level rise to bring about change.

Over the course of the next year and a half, CBFS will host seven more Community Action Days and more than 800 students will visit the Living Shoreline to complete service learning projects and learn about building resilient communities in the face of environmental changes.  This past spring,  82 students from Stephen Decatur Middle School took on a project to remove the invasive reed Phragmites australis from the marsh, hoping to open space for native marsh grasses to grow.  These activities take students and families through the full continuum of environmental education – from critical thinking activities, team-based problem solving, and environmental stewardship.
It's not every Community Action Day that we have a cloudless, eighty-degree, and virtually mosquito-less afternoon, but the commodore and enthusiasm make it feel as close to a beach party as Greenbackville may have ever seen!
Projects at CBFS's Living Shoreline site are funded in part by EPA, NOAA, and Walmart.  
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Producer Profile: Giving Tree Garden Market #servinguptheshore

8/2/2016

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Meet John, owner and farmer at Giving Tree Garden Market in New Church. Giving Tree will be providing produce for the Serving up the Shore dinner on August 19. 

In addition to the wide selection of garden plants available at Giving Tree, there are also high quality organic vegetables. “We called this place a ‘garden market’ versus a garden center, because we wanted to create our own garden and provide the Eastern Shore with good, wholesome, chemical-free food,” said John.

For more about Giving Tree, you can visit the Giving Tree website, or stop in at Giving Tree’s location right off Chincoteague Road. Be sure to visit our Serving up the Shore webpage, and stay updated with the Facebook event page.

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Producer Profile: La Caridad Farm #servinguptheshore

8/2/2016

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Meet Luis and Stacia, owners and farmers at La Caridad Farm in Parksley. La Caridad will be providing meat and eggs for the Serving up the Shore dinner on August 19. 

Stacia – a “from’ere” who grew up in Parksley – and Luis – a “come’ere” originally from Cuba – started their farm in 2013. “I come from a background where we basically raised all the meat that we eat,” said Luis, “and that’s something I strongly believe in.”

Luis and Stacia find time out of their busy schedules – which include full-time jobs – to raise chickens, pigs, ducks and rabbits. They also have a personal garden, which they use to feed themselves as well as their animals.

For more information about La Caridad, you can watch the video above or visit the La Caridad website. Be sure to visit our Serving up the Shore webpage, and stay updated with the Facebook event page.
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