A Life of Science: Extreme Gardening in the Rocky Mountains

The Carson Scholars program is pleased to partner with the longest-running online literary environmental magazine, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. Terrain has launched a series featuring the work of Carson Scholars called A Life of Science. The series features essays and other writings, with hopes of inspiring readers to understand not only research findings but the textures of the lives of scientists and others engaged in the crucial work of helping the planet along in an age of unprecedented change.

Read the latest essay "Extreme Gardening in the Rocky Mountains" by Lorah Patterson (2018 Carson Scholar, Galileo Circle/College of Science Fellow)