Mary Beth Breckenridge, the Akron Beacon Journal’s totally excellent garden writer, wrote last week about an Ohio couple’s battle with invasive plants, such as the garlic-mustard shown here. Their son, a recent graduate of our college, and their daughter-in-law, an educator with our outreach arm, OSU Extension, play a big part in the story, whose bottom line is this: A hands-off approach to managing a woods can let invasive plants take over. And that can put natives at risk. Read the story.