Remember the days when bigger bullies beat up smaller kids on the playground, or gave wedgies in the hallways, or swirlies in the restrooms? No, I am not waxing poetic on the good old days gone by. I have just been thinking lately about the newer, more sinister ways that kids are bullying each other.
It’s that time of year that everyone is getting their seeds ordered for their garden and I am barraged with questions asking about what is the best tomato variety to plant. To be honest I don’t have a favorite tomato variety. I guess I have tasted too many tomatoes and find that there are many varied uses for the tomatoes to pick just one or two favorite varieties. My staff has some favorites: Orange King was a big favorite last summer in our field along with Juliet, a large grape or saladette tomato that was a1999 AAS winner.
Hopefully the luck of the Irish will be with West Virginia State University (WVSU). Next week, I and a group of nine other travelers representing the University, Gus R. Douglass Land-Grant Institute (GRDI), and state government will visit Ireland to learn and experience their internationally known tourism first hand. Ireland doesn’t offer just any tourism vacation; they are experts in a select new type of sustainable tourism called Ecotourism.
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