Next in the 2015 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series: Snowville Creamery Open House, June 6, in Pomeroy in southeast Ohio. Snowville’s slogan? “Milk the Way It Used to Be.” Click here and scroll to p. 18 to find out more. Check out Snowville’s website here.
Month: June 2015
Touring with fish
The next First Friday Aquaculture Tour is 10 a.m. to noon today, June 5, at CFAES’s OSU South Centers in Piketon. (Photo: Young rainbow trout by Stephen Ausmus, USDA-ARS.)
See what’s brewing
CFAES holds its next First Friday Hops Tour tomorrow, June 5, near Wooster. (Photo: iStock.)
Recycle your plastic flower pots Saturday
This Saturday, June 6, from 8 a.m. to noon, you can recycle your plastic flower pots and trays at CFAES’s Chadwick Arboretum in Columbus. They’ll take nonfood-grade plastic foam packing material, too, such as Styrofoam. It’s another way to reduce what’s filling up (and being interred forever in) our landfills. Details.
Pastured poultry, naked oats: Sustainable Farm Tour Series
First up in the 2015 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series: Pastured Poultry Research Tour, June 3, at Muddy Fork Farm in Wooster in northeast Ohio. The topic: How to incorporate (1) pasture-raised chickens in movable shelters and (2) a grain called naked oats into an organic rotation. It’s a joint study with CFAES with USDA funding. For details, click here and scroll to p. 7.
New climate change fact sheet
CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, has published a new climate change fact sheet.
“(It) addresses many aspects of the topic that often confuse members of the public,” author Tom Blaine of Extension’s Community Development program wrote in an email. “Questions like the following are answered: Hasn’t Earth’s climate always changed? Hasn’t it been much warmer on Earth in the past? Could humans really be affecting Earth’s climate? What is the outlook for the future? The fact sheet is replete with graphs and a summary of Earth’s climate history over the past 600 million years, including discussions of the ice ages and their causes.”