Innovative work by the Washington County office of OSU Extension to prevent road erosion along the Muskingum River, and Ohio State President Michael V. Drake’s recent tour to see it, earned coverage by the Marietta Times.
Also reporting on the story was Parkersburg, West Virginia’s WTAP-TV.
Wright State’s Yvonne Vadeboncoeur headlines Stone Lab’s next guest lecture series event, which is tonight, Thursday, June 29, at 7 p.m. Her bio says she studies the “importance of energy linkages among habitats in freshwater ecosystems.”
Also speaking will be Wright State’s Stephen Jacquemin, whose research, his bio says, focuses on the “ecology and evolution of freshwater fishes and gastropods.”
Stone Lab is Ohio State’s island campus at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. Admission to the event is free. But there’s a charge for a ferry ride to Put-in-Bay and water taxi ride to the lab. There’s an option to watch online. (Photo: Stone Lab dock, Jill Bartolotta, via Flickr.)
CFAES’s Glen Arnold and Sam Custer have developed a way to spread liquid manure on young growing field crops like corn. Their new design serves to (1) boost the plants’ uptake of the valuable nutrients in the manure, (2) save farmers money on manure disposal and fertilizer costs, all while (3) reducing the risk of the nutrients getting into water. Read the story.
Onboard the Valley Gem sternwheeler on the Muskingum River near Marietta, Darlene Lukshin, program specialist in OSU Extension’s Washington County office, and Ohio State President Michael V. Drake talked to WTAP’s (Parkersburg, West Virginia) Julie Dunphy about a high-tech, environmentally friendly way to keep roads by the river safe from erosion.
CFAES’s research arm, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, is holding its annual Organic Crop Field Day on Thursday, June 29, from 2 to 6 p.m. near Wooster. Admission is free. Check out the event description. Learn more, including about the field day’s first-ever inclusion of organic dairying, in a CFAES press release.
OARDC’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research Program is hosting the event, which is part of the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series.
On July 7, a CFAES-sponsored class on Ohio State’s Mansfield campus will help you identify Ohio’s trees.
Knowing how to identify trees can help you take care of them even better, says instructor Kathy Smith, head of CFAES’s Ohio Woodland Stewards program. Every tree species has different needs for care, she says.
See how new farmer John Wood got off the ground during the Diversified Beginning Farm Tour on June 25 in southeast Ohio.
Wood manages his Homecoming Farm in Amesville, according to the tour description, “with a whole-farm approach with a focus on diverse, year-round income streams including fruit trees, vegetables, wood products and non-timber forest products such as maple syrup.” He’ll discuss his experiences as a beginning farmer and how to “best manage a mix of forested and unforested land.”
The tour is from 1-4 p.m. Admission is free; preregistration is encouraged. It’s part of the Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. CFAES is a co-presenter of the series.
CFAES is co-sponsoring a bee biology and identification workshop on four dates in August in northeast and central Ohio.
The workshop is called Bees in Your Backyard … and the Plants They Visit, and the instructor will be Olivia Carril, biologist and co-author of The Bees in Your Backyard (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Next in the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series is an Urban CSA Farm Tour on June 24 in Cincinnati. It’s at the Urban Greens CSA farm. Urban Greens, the event description says, “turns vacant properties into beautiful and bountiful gardens” and relies on an “extensive network of like-minded farmers, who provide them with the best variety and quality.” The tour is free and open to the public. There’s an optional farm-to-table dinner that’s $20 and requires registering in advance.
Ohio Sea Grant is requesting pre-proposals for one- to two-year research projects from Ohio colleges and universities as part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative.
