Mike Huben
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Alina and I both have sizable libraries. I love the folding bookshelves that I brought from the US, but we don't have nearly enough. So we are having [[new custom folding bookshelves]] built by a local carpenter. | Alina and I both have sizable libraries. I love the folding bookshelves that I brought from the US, but we don't have nearly enough. So we are having [[new custom folding bookshelves]] built by a local carpenter. | ||
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+ | == Botany and Agriculture == | ||
+ | [[Image:Mucuna klitgaardiae.jpg|thumb|Mucuna klitgaardiae with my favorite botanist, Alina.]] | ||
+ | My mom has a picture of me staring intently at Petunias on Jones Beach at age 2, so I guess I've been a plant guy for 60 years or so. I grew my first seedlings in first grade, and have not stopped since then. I worked in the botanical greenhouse of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University for a few years. I wanted to be a farmer for a while, until I realized that I had dreadful allergies. | ||
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+ | Currently, I am working on a [http://extension.referata.com/wiki/Página_principal|Tomato Project with some students at IKIAM University, in Tena, Ecuador. The goal is to find the most disease resistant varieties (and perhaps breed with them) to find tomatoes that do not need greenhouse protection from rain-spread diseases. | ||
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