User Tools

Site Tools


eternity:lyla_mayweather

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revision Previous revision
Next revision
Previous revision
Next revision Both sides next revision
eternity:lyla_mayweather [2017/06/12 22:15]
gm_morgan
eternity:lyla_mayweather [2017/06/12 22:16]
gm_morgan
Line 3: Line 3:
 -- from //"10 Things You Won't Believe Happened on b-Exagora! (It Wasn't All Evil Research!)"//​ on popular Bel-Ashan light entertainment website -- from //"10 Things You Won't Believe Happened on b-Exagora! (It Wasn't All Evil Research!)"//​ on popular Bel-Ashan light entertainment website
  
-===Extract from //Redemption and Rebirth: a b-Exagora Retrospective//, a documentary filmed in 750PE===+----- 
 + 
 +===Extract from 'Redemption and Rebirth: a b-Exagora Retrospective', a documentary filmed in 750PE===
  
 //[Aerial shot. The camera pans across rolling green fields, peppered with brilliantly-coloured flowers]// //[Aerial shot. The camera pans across rolling green fields, peppered with brilliantly-coloured flowers]//
Line 15: Line 17:
 To tell us the story of this remarkable transformation,​ who better than someone who has been here from the very start? To tell us the story of this remarkable transformation,​ who better than someone who has been here from the very start?
  
-//[The camera cuts to a garden, where an elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of geraniums. She looks up, into the camera, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]//+//[The camera cuts to a garden, where an elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of primroses. She looks up, into the camera, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]//
  
 **Presenter:​** Ms. Mayweather, could you tell us about your work here? What have been the biggest challenges? **Presenter:​** Ms. Mayweather, could you tell us about your work here? What have been the biggest challenges?
  
-**Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //​interesting//​ challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated,​ and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work that we could first import bees, and...+**Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //​interesting//​ challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated,​ and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work before ​we could first import bees...
eternity/lyla_mayweather.txt · Last modified: 2017/06/13 13:05 by gm_morgan