Carolyn Beans
Freelance Science Journalist at Freelance
Biologist turned science journalist covering #food #agriculture #health| Bylines @FERNnews @PNASNews @ScienceNews @newscientist @NPR @Slate & others | She/Her
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1 month ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Carolyn Beans
At Ar-Joy Farms in Cochranville, Pennsylvania, Duane Hershey’s manure management plan generates many clear cost savings for his dairy. Manure solids — extracted with a solid-liquid separator — provide bedding for his 900-plus cows. Manure liquids feed into an anaerobic digester, along with food waste that retailers pay the dairy to accept.
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1 month ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Carolyn Beans
Paul Mason of Mason’s Chrome View dairy in Nottingham, Pennsylvania, has high hopes for his new manure spreading tool. At over 16 feet tall, the 360 Rain can maneuver through rows of corn, depositing liquid manure along the way. kAmkDA2?m|2D@? H2D :?:E:2==J 5C2H? E@ E96 56G:46 2D 2 H2J E@ 56=:G6C ?FEC:6?ED E@ 9:D 7665 4C@AD H9:=6 2=D@ >2?28:?8 9:D >2?FC6 DFAA=J]k^DA2?mk^AmkAmkDA2?m“(92E 5@ J@F 5@ H:E9 >2?FC6n” |2D@? D2JD] “(96?
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2 months ago |
on.rotary.org | Carolyn Beans
It happens every year. Apple cider appears at the grocery store and I immediately start planning. My family will carve pumpkins and host outdoor movie nights and sit by firepits. For all these activities, we’ll need warm apple cider, and lots of it. I buy a gallon. On my next trip, I buy another. I can’t be caught short during cider season. But inevitably, we tire of apple cider, and the remainder turns vinegary in the back of the refrigerator before I pour it down the drain.
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2 months ago |
rotary.org | Carolyn Beans
It happens every year. Apple cider appears at the grocery store and I immediately start planning. My family will carve pumpkins and host outdoor movie nights and sit by firepits. For all these activities, we’ll need warm apple cider, and lots of it. I buy a gallon. On my next trip, I buy another. I can’t be caught short during cider season. But inevitably, we tire of apple cider, and the remainder turns vinegary in the back of the refrigerator before I pour it down the drain.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
wxpr.org | Carolyn Beans
By Carolyn Beans for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Wisconsin News Connection reporting for the Pulitzer Center-Public News Service Collaboration. Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone.
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RT @TheAtlantic: Food allergy labels in America are maddeningly vague. That's not the case in some other countries, @carolynmbeans reports…
Allergy Labels: This May Contain Peanuts (Or Maybe Not) -- My first piece for Undark: https://t.co/gomVNmVDm3 #allergy #foodsafety
In the wake of the #pandemic, Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is having a moment. This 19th-century play shows modern audiences that sharing unpopular #PublicHealth messages has always been challenging. So what can we learn from it? My latest for @PNASNews: https://t.co/VxpL5Uvwir
