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“Mother Nature dictates everything,” she said. They’ve had one field flood where they were to plant late-season crops. They had to change that plan moving that plating upland. “Game of chess. We have a few acres were able to keep planting on.” She’s also monitoring river levels. “Most of our cropland, almost 30 acres worth of cropland, is down on the banks of the Connecticut River.” Fran Whelan of Hayes Farms in Rocky Hill was checking in on his flooded cornfields. It was tough to get in touch with CT farmers today… Many were out assessing flooded crops, like 5th gen. farmer...

Building child friendly schools MASERU – WHEN Mabatho Litlatse* is on her menstrual periods, the last thing she wants to do is go to school. Her schoolmates once put her through so much shame after she stained her uniform that she wished the earth would swallow her up. “My classmates laughed at me. I felt like quitting school,” said the 12-year-old. Menstruation, she said, disrupts her learning as she always fears leaving her uniform stained. “The absence of toilets here makes me uncomfortable to change my pad in the forest as I don’t know who else is watching considering that our s...