CFAES’s Direct Marketing Team is hosting a free public webinar called “Organic, Naturally Grown, Chemical-Free: What Do These Mean?” from noon to 1 p.m. this Thursday. Speaking will be Eric Pawlowski and Amalie Lipstreu of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association.
The webinar is part of an ongoing series being hosted by the team. See the complete series schedule.
The 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues June 17 with the Renewable Energy Farm Tour at Woodland Ridge Farm and Learning Center in Athens in southeast Ohio. The farm has hybrid, battery backup, microgrid solar and off-grid systems. Admission is free and open to the public, but you have to preregister. Get details in the tour’s calendar listing or on pages 7-8 in the series brochure.
The farm is also offering two paid workshops and a dinner that weekend. Details are at the same links.
The Growing Right Oral History Pop-up Tour, which explores Ohio’s roots in ecological farming, pops up again on June 14 at Columbus’s Franklin Park Conservatory Farmers’ Market. It’s part of the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series.
A June 20 tour in northern Ohio will show how trees get turned into products, including Amish-made lumber and furniture. “We hope people find it an eye-opening experience,” said co-organizer Kathy Smith, CFAES’s forestry program director. “A lot goes into that process.”
CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster is giving a home composting workshop June 12.
Seminary Hill Farm at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio is holding the Certified Organic College Farm Tour from 5 to 6 p.m. June 12. The school is in Delaware north of Columbus. The farm raises heirloom vegetables, fruit and chickens. Visitors will interact with the farmers, “explore season extension techniques, learn about their young farmer apprentice program and meet their bees,” the event description says. The tour is part of the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series and is the specific presenter of this event.
A survey by CFAES researchers shows that some seniors and low-income individuals may have trouble accessing electronic product codes on food labels indicating the item contains genetically modified ingredients.
Rock Dove Farm in West Jefferson, about 20 miles west of Columbus, is hosting the Mixed Vegetable Production and Information Management Farm Tour from 2 to 6 p.m. June 11. Registration is $4 members of the National Young Farmers Coalition, $10 for nonmembers, and includes strawberries, pickles and salad. It’s another in the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. Download the series brochure.
In addition to the Growing Right Oral History Pop-up Tour in Columbus, there’s a second event set for June 10 in the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series: the Snowville Creamery Open House in Langville in southeast Ohio. The event includes a field walk, milking parlor tour, homemade ice cream and live music. Hours are 1 to 4 p.m.
The 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series starts June 10 with a pop-up tour of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s Growing Right Oral History project at Columbus’s North Market Farmers’ Market.
Speakers will share “oral history excerpts, photography, multimedia pieces and print materials from OEFFA’s grassroots oral history and media arts project on ecological farming in Ohio,” the event description says. “Join us in listening deeply to the stories and places of Ohio’s diverse ecological farmers and food systems movement-builders.”
OEFFA, CFAES, Central State University and the Clintonville Farmers’ Market are co-presenting the series.