UGArden

In this picture, I see a man who is really passionate about soil. And there’s nothing wrong with that–he’s being environmentally conscious by doing so. I think this picture is really cool because it not only captures the compost itself, but also a professor who has spent hours upon hours of his time doing the composting (and best of all, in the middle of explaining the ups and downs of the temperature of said compost). This picture makes me think about one main thing (stay with me on this one): Could you increase the productivity of composting by putting all of your organic material in a blender? That’s what, sadly, I was thinking about throughout the professor’s entire presentation. And to my surprise, he actually answered my wild internal question, albeit indirectly–there was a machine that sliced and diced organic material to speed up the composting process. So, when I look at this picture, I think about the innovations that keep popping up in the agriculture industry. However, I think this particular picture is about something more specific: the determination of one professor to do his part, whether it be turning over the piles of dead leaves via tractor or throwing egg shells into a homemade compost bin away from UGArden. No matter where he is, he tries to make a difference.