So I'm back in Ames, for my last semester as an undergrad at Iowa State. So far, I've learned that robins don't technically migrate, they just follow food, so it isn't unusual to see them during the winter in certain microclimates. I also learned alot in Mexico, see pictures of that after the jump. While I was in Mexico, I learned a lot about agriculture too, in the Agronomy department of a college in Queretaro, a small organization promoting amaranth growth to reduce malnutrition and poverty, and some farms near Mexico City and in the states of Chiapas and Guanajuato. Below, you can see a celery bed at the farm I worked at in Chiapas:
There was a lot of potatoes, kale, and a bit of lettuce in the bed. If things were edible, the workers left them to grow unless they started really harming the main crop. So I pulled a lot of plants I wasn't supposed to, such as epazote, which they never planted but grew everywhere.

I also saw a lot of other cool stuff, including forests, waterfalls, and ruins, such as you can see below.