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Hi, I'm Taryn. I'm a Washington State-based freelance journalist with a broad background covering policy, law, health, science, business, and social issues. I write for local and national publications, covering stories big and small. I used to live in Kentucky, where I was a projects reporter for the Bowling Green Daily News. Like many fine journalists, I started at the Minnesota Daily — the award-winning student-run paper at the University of Minnesota.
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food | The Push to make pears the new applesAmit Dhingra is on a mission to make America fall in love with the pear.
In a lab at Washington State University, the 45-year-old horticulture researcher has dedicated much of the last decade to the shapely fruit. Building off relationships with pear growers who say their businesses are held back by a lack of scientific understanding of their product, Dhingra has mapped the pear genome, bred new trees, and even found a way to ripen the notoriously stiff fruit. Continue reading at The Atlantic. |
Food | Do honey bees need their own lobbyists?In Washington, where growers produced 6.3 billion pounds of apples last year, there’s plenty of work for honey bees and other pollinators. That’s reason enough to give attention to the issues impacting their health, Hiatt says. He estimates he loses 35 percent of his bees every year, which is about the national average, he says. On top of the environmental concerns that raises, Hiatt spends a lot of time explaining the consequences of the loss to growers.
Continuing reading at Civil Eats. |
