Month: June 2017

Organic farmer finds it ‘wasn’t as easy as I thought’ — then success

A biweekly diary by Canadian organic farmer Brent Preston, headlined “Leaving the city to become a farmer wasn’t as easy as I thought,” is now running in Toronto’s Globe and Mail.

Preston and his wife, Gillian Flies, who started their now-succesful farm in central Ontario in 2007, are the authors of a new book called The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution.

Where to launch and paddle around Lake Erie’s islands

A new guide by a partnership including Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program will help you explore Lake Erie’s islands by kayak, canoe and SUP. There’s a launch of it (that you can launch at) June 9.

Outdoor recreation represents a “major service by which the public identifies with and better understands natural resources,” a 2013 U.S. Forest Service report says, “even to the extent that it can foster environmental stewardship.” (Photo: iStock.)

So you’ve got lots of pots to get rid of …

CFAES’s Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens are hosting their annual Plastic Pot Recycling Event from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. June 10. You can drop off horticultural plastics (pots, trays and cell packs) and non-food-grade styrofoam. It’s free and open to the public in front of Howlett Hall, 2001 Fyffe Court, on Ohio State’s campus in Columbus.

“We engage with partner Phoenix Recycling to keep these plastics out of the waste stream and landfills,” an article on CFAES’s faculty-staff website says, “and they render them into useful products.”

Visit the event’s webpage. (Photo: iStock.)