CFAES’s Bee Lab is co-sponsoring three upcoming Bees in Your Backyard workshops by author and bee expert Olivia Carril, and a lecture and book signing, too. Nota bee-ne: The deadline to register for the workshops is May 18; for the lecture and book signing, June 4. Continue reading Meet the bees in your own backyard
Month: May 2018
Let’s celebrate Ohio’s trees, while staying alert to these threats to them (especially 2 new diseases)
A workshop offered on May 23 is meant to grow your love of trees — and also to try to protect them.
Go west for sustainability fest
Five CFAES and CFAES-affiliated programs will be among the more than two dozen exhibitors at WestFest 2018, a sustainability festival on May 19 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus, specifically its West Campus Quad. Continue reading Go west for sustainability fest
Woods, too, are good for pollinators. Learn how
A field full of native wildflowers is a fantastic place for pollinators. But a sun-speckled forest is too, say the organizers of an upcoming workshop on the topic.
Continue reading Woods, too, are good for pollinators. Learn how
Resilient communities in a changing climate?
Aaron Wilson
, atmospheric scientist with CFAES’s OSU Extension outreach arm and Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and Jiyoung Lee, associate professor with CFAES’s Department of Food Science and Technology and Ohio State’s College of Public Health, will be among the dozen-plus speakers at Building Resilient Communities in a Changing Climate, a daylong educational forum on May 18 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Admission is free and open to the public, includes lunch, but you have to register by May 14.
Get details and a link to register. (Photo: iStock.)
Where do bees do what they do?
CFAES scientist Reed Johnson presents “Where Are Honey Bees Foraging in Ohio?” from 9-10 a.m. May 16 as part of a webinar series hosted by the college’s Bee Lab. Watching the webinar is free; use the “Guest Login” at 8:55 a.m. Gather more information (scroll down). (Photo: iStock.)
‘Every Ohio State fan should have one’
Spring’s a great time for Buckeye nuts to plant their own source of buckeye nuts. Dig this story on how to do it on CFAES’s Stories website. (Photo: University Communications.)
Gonna make these gardens grow
CFAES’s two arboretums … arboreta … major plant collections are holding spring plant sales this weekend. Both sales usually draw hundreds of eager gardeners. Proceeds benefit the arboretums’ plantings and programs. Located in Columbus and Wooster, the tree- and flower-filled facilities are open to, are welcoming to and are happily used by the public.
Soil loss: Tackling the ‘quiet crisis’
At the west end of Ohio State’s Columbus campus, within eyeshot of Ohio Stadium and the Columbus city skyline, passed by thousands of commuters daily, lies a soil study site about the size of a basketball court that could help change the planet, or at least about 4 billion acres of it.