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Southwest Ohio Perennial School

| Nanette Neal

Join Us for the 31st Southwest Ohio Perennial School!

📅 Date: April 10, 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM (Doors open at 8:00 AM)
📍 Location: Clermont County Fairgrounds, 4-H Hall
1000 Locust Street, Owensville, Ohio 45160

💰 Cost: $50

🌱 Registration is now open! The registration form is attached.

Join us for a day of expert insights, gardening inspiration, and networking with fellow plant enthusiasts. Our lineup of speakers includes:

🌿 Carol Trosset (Hamilton County MGV & Author) – Cultivating Woodland Wildflowers
Discover the diverse wildflowers of southern Ohio’s forests and their role in the ecosystem. Dr. Trosset will share insights from her family’s woodland restoration project and discuss the impact of climate change on blooming cycles.

💧 Eugene Braig (OSU Program Director, Aquatic Ecosystems) – Ponds and Pond-Loving Plants
Explore wetland and aquatic species that thrive in and around ponds, their benefits, and invasive species to avoid.

🌸 Brian Grubb (Educator, University of Cincinnati) – Herbaceous Ornamentals at UC
Gain insights into the teaching and study of herbaceous ornamentals at UC, including student projects from the past three years.

🍇 Ryan Slaughter (OSU Extension Educator, Ross County) – Getting Started with Brambles
Learn how to grow blackberries and raspberries, covering site selection, soil preparation, planting, trellising, and pruning.

🌼 Jenny Stoneking (OSU Extension Educator, Adams County) – Year-Round Color with Perennials
Discover how to design a perennial garden that showcases vibrant color in every season, even in winter!

For more information, visit clermont.osu.edu or contact neal.331@osu.edu.

Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your gardening knowledge and connect with fellow enthusiasts! 🌿✨

Registration Form

Southern Ohio Women in Ag Conference

| Nanette Neal

Join Us for the 2nd Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference!

📅 Date: April 4, 2025
📍 Location: Bell Manor, Chillicothe, OH
⏰ Time: The program begins at 9:00 AM

Connect, learn, and grow at the Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference! Spend the day networking with fellow women in agriculture while engaging with expert speakers, doing hands-on activities, and attending vendor exhibits.

What to Expect:

🌱 Grant Writing Workshop – Learn from Gwynn Stewart, Assistant Director of Community Development and grant writing author, as she shares strategies for securing funding, crafting strong applications, and building relationships with funders.

📢 Marketing Strategies – Christy Welch and Kate Hornyak, OSU Extension Direct Marketing, will provide insights on engaging your target audience and boosting your business with effective marketing tools.

🚜 From Soil to Success Panel – Hear real-life experiences from local women farmers:

  • Mandy Way (Farmers’ Markets)
  • Dana Workman (Livestock)
  • Liz Fundergurgh (Agronomic Crops)
  • Alanna Reisinger (Floriculture Production)

📷 Snapshot Strategies – Improve your photography skills with Jenny Stoneking and Christy Millhouse (OSU Extension). Learn how to capture eye-catching marketing photos using an iPad, camera, or phone.

💐 Take Home a Floral Creation! – Gain hands-on experience processing tulips into a vase arrangement and layering bulbs for multi-season blooms with daffodils, tulips, and crocuses.

🎟️ Registration: $50 – Sign up at go.osu.edu/womeninagconf by March 28, 2025! Southern Ohio WIA

Join us for a day of learning, networking, and inspiration. We can’t wait to see you there!

Southern Ohio Women in Ag Conference

| Nanette Neal
Join us on April 4, 2025, for the 2nd Southern Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference, located at Bell Manor in Chillicothe, OH.
Keynote
The Grower Panel focuses on the farmers’ market, agronomy, livestock, and floriculture.
Marketing Your Brand
How to take pictures to market your brand through design and editing
Continental breakfast and lunch provided
Vendors and Sponsors that will help support your business
Registration is open, and the cost is $50.
Current sponsors are Kingston Bank, Farm Credit, and Gerber Insurance.
More information and detailed descriptions to follow.

2025 Ohio Woodland Water and Wildlife Conference

| Nanette Neal

Join us for this conference covering topics geared toward natural resource professionals and land managers.

This year, the topics include:

  • Rooted in Ohio: Oak Identification and Proper Site Selection
  • Reintroduction of Ohio’s Fishes of Greatest Conservation Concern
  • Landscape Designs for People and Wildlife

A full listing of talks is available here. Continuing education credits for ISA, SAF, and pesticide credits will be offered—see a listing by talk here.

Registration is now $85 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and materials.

Register here.

Forage Resiliency Webinar Series starts March 4, 2025

| Nanette Neal

The Ohio State Integrated Forage Management Team will be offering a three-part Zoom webinar series on forage resiliency to cover information on how to remain resilient to a variety of environmental challenges in forage production systems. Webinars will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month in March, April, and May. Details, including registration information, are as follows:

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Ohio Agroforestry Summit

| Nanette Neal

Agroforestry is the intentional combination of trees and shrubs with other agricultural products. That could be planting trees in your pasture, growing crops between rows of nut trees, cultivating medicinal plants in your woods, and many other land management practices!

Friday, March 7, 2025

9:00 am

Shisler Conference Center, 1860 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691

Register at go.osu.edu/AFsummit