See four successful urban farms on a free tour in Cleveland (pdf; scroll down to p. 13) on Friday, July 13. Featured will be the Stanard Farm (video, 8:53), Ohio City Farm (“A Neighborhood that Feeds a City”), Chateau Hough (video, 6:09), and Kinsman Farm. Our college’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is the sponsor. The event is part of the 2012 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series.
Month: June 2012
‘Lake Erie, the Great Lakes, and Congress’
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents northern Ohio’s 9th District, kicks off Stone Lab’s summer speaker series this Thursday evening (June 14). You can attend in person or watch online. Stone Lab is Ohio State’s biological field station at Put-in-Bay and is part of our college.
Last winter, in a speech in the House of Representatives during Great Lakes Week, Kaptur spoke in support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and of increasing efforts to control Asian carp and harmful algal blooms.
‘It’s a picturesque farm … plopped on a parking lot’
Summer Ballentine of the Columbus Dispatch reports yesterday on Joe Kovach’s (pictured) urban farming “parking lot” plantings: “It’s a picturesque farm, where plump strawberries ripen on vines shaded by peach trees. … But take a step back, and you remember that this farm thrives in the middle of an asphalt parking lot on an Ohio State University campus.”