Month: October 2013

Edible landscape workshop is Oct. 9

crabapples

Filé gumbo from sassafras leaves? Crabapple-powered Malus Mo Mas Magnifico Meatball Munchies? Secrest Arboretum’s first-ever ArborEatUm Edible Landscape Workshop (pdf) goes from 5-8 p.m. on Oct. 9. It features walks, talks, eating and recipe sharing, all based on plants you can grow in your own backyard and maybe already do. Registration varies from $25 to $10; you’ll pay less if you bring a recipe to share, and pay even less if you bring the actual dish. The arboretum is on the Wooster campus of CFAES’s research arm, OARDC. Details: 330-263-3831 or fischnich.1@osu.edu.

Howdy, (biodiverse) neighbor!

coyote for GBBiodiversity is a key part of sustainability. Although in this case, the biodiversity is of certain mammals, including predators, that are living in growing numbers in our cities. CFAES’s Stan Gehrt is quoted in recent issues of Science and Scientific American on the boom in coyotes and other urban wildlife. (Photo by JoernHauke via Wikimedia Commons.)

Working together, part 2

Past Stinner Summits (scroll down to our previous post or click here) have supported, for example, projects aimed at getting more local foods into schools, eliminating child hunger in Youngstown, creating regional value-added food-processing hubs and establishing urban soil-production sites by diverting local food waste into composting. Read the list here (scroll down to the links). The late Ben Stinner was the first coordinator of CFAES’s Agroecosystems Management Program, which is the host of the summits, and was a leader of our college’s first steps toward sustainable agriculture. As has been said by many more eloquently than this: What a great person. Mentor. Downright human being.

This Friday: Working together for healthy agroecosystems, sustainable communities

stinner summitCFAES’s Agroecosystems Management Program holds the 7th annual Stinner Summit this Friday, Oct. 4, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Peninsula. The event, says its website, “is a highly engaging and participatory event where attendees from all backgrounds work together to develop projects that will address healthy agroecosystems and sustainable communities. At the end of the day, the Ben Stinner Endowment pledges $15,000 in support of one or more projects.” Registration, unfortunately, is now closed; email AMP’s Ben Kerrick if you have any questions.