The Growing Right Oral History Project pop-up tour, a look at the history of ecological farming in Ohio, appears today from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Franklin Park Conservatory Farmers’ Market in Columbus.
It’s part of the 2017 Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series.
CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series.
A July 27 event at Ohio State will look at how Ohio communities can experience the most benefits — and fewest problems — from oil and gas work in their areas. Continue reading How Ohio communities can handle pluses, minuses of oil and gas work
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its research partners, which include Ohio State, are predicting that western Lake Erie will experience a significant harmful algal bloom this summer.
NOAA announced the forecast at a July 13 event and webinar co-hosted by Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program. The event took place at Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. CFAES Agronomic Systems Field Specialist Greg LaBarge was one of the speakers.
Watch and listen to a video of the webinar above.
A July 18-19 workshop on Ohio State’s Mansfield campus — called A Walk Through Ohio’s Forests: The Good, the Bad and the Invasive — will feature two helpful tools for teaching students about nature and the environment. Co-sponsors of the event include CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources and OSU Extension outreach arm. Register by Friday.
Twenty-one central Ohioans received their Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist program certificates at a May 30 celebration at the Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio. Continue reading Volunteer naturalists are certified, celebrated and ready to serve
Ohio Sea Grant, on behalf of Ohio State, the University of Toledo and the Ohio Department of Higher Education, has released the second-year research progress update for the statewide Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative. (Photo: Lake Erie algal bloom, NASA.)
Experts who are slated to speak at NOAA’s 2017 Seasonal Forecast of Harmful Algal Blooms for Lake Erie, which is this Thursday, July 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Ohio State’s Stone Lab, also will present the lab’s weekly guest lecture program later that evening, at 7 p.m.
There’s an option to watch online.
This Thursday, July 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program and Stone Laboratory will host a public event and webinar to explain NOAA’s 2017 Seasonal Forecast of Harmful Algal Blooms for Lake Erie.
Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant Program and Stone Laboratory will host a media briefing to announce NOAA’s 2017 Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast for Lake Erie. Media will have the opportunity to see laboratory demonstrations and participate in an on-the-water field experience. Continue reading Media advisory: NOAA’s Lake Erie harmful algal bloom forecast is July 13
The Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues on Sunday, July 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. with a farm open house at Foraged & Sown in Columbus.
Foraged & Sown, the event description says, “uses an innovative approach to land tenure — building relationships with multiple land owners to farm and forage on diverse sites — to create a low-impact, sustainable urban farm.”
CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series.