Sept. 29: Dedication of Ben Stinner Pollinator Garden

monarch on flower 2CFAES’s Department of Entomology will dedicate the new Ben Stinner Pollinator Garden from 3:30-5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 29, next to Thorne Hall at CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster (comments at 4 p.m.). “The garden,” says a notice about the event, “is a tribute to Ben’s life and work.” Stinner was one of CFAES’s sustainable agriculture pioneers and leaders and was head of its Agroecosystems Management Program at the time of his death, at age 50, in a 2004 car crash. His impact on CFAES and the people, farms and ecosystems around him was and is wide and deep. Details: ellsworth.2@osu.edu. (Photo: Monarch butterfly, iStock.)

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