The tweet below includes a video update on Ohio State’s Student Farm, which is located at CFAES’s Waterman Agriculture and Natural Resources Laboratory in Columbus. Watch to the end for an interesting way to control weeds without using chemicals.
https://twitter.com/CFAES_OSU/status/1012346524498571270
See what’s new at the farm, and all throughout CFAES, by following @CFAES_OSU on Twitter.
You also can follow the farm on Facebook.
The next breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN), set for July 10, will take you on a walking tour of the Lower Olentangy River in Columbus. You’ll learn about wildlife, forestry, invasive species, water quality and the benefits of lowhead dam removal. You’ll visit CFAES’s Wilma H. Shiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, check out invasive-species removal and elm research projects in Tuttle Park, learn about the 5th Avenue dam removal and river restoration process, and get a close-up look at a field collection of aquatic macroinvertebrates. Registration is open to both EPN members and the public. Find out more.
CFAES’s Mažeika Sullivan, director of the Shiermeier wetland park and one of the walk’s guides, talks about the facility in the video above.
CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources is the organizer of EPN, which is a statewide professional group. Joining is free and open to anyone studying or working in an environmental field.
Manure Science Review, co-organized by CFAES, is set for July 25 in Forest in northwest Ohio. Its full day of talks and demos will showcase ways to put manure to good use — helping food production, soil health and a farmer’s bottom line, while also protecting water quality. Find details, including a link to register. (You’ll save $5 if you sign up by July 16.)
June 28’s program in Stone Lab’s annual summer Guest Lecture Series features the executive director of the National Ocean Service’s Great Lakes Observing System and the western Lake Erie project director for The Nature Conservancy in Ohio. Find out more.
Stone Lab, part of CFAES, is located at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie.
“The wriggling Rembrandts will ‘crawl through kid-safe and maggot-safe paint, leaving behind painted trails.’ ”
Wait, what?
CFAES’s family-friendly Insect Night, whose stars include fireflies and artistic maggots, is Saturday, June 30, in Wooster. (Photo: iStock.)
The latest on our CFAES Stories website? Check out 10 questions with Suzanne Gray, who studies fish and water quality. She’s a recent winner of one of Ohio State’s top awards for teaching.
What are snot otters, why do we want them around, and how are we working to help them? Find out when Stone Lab’s 2018 Guest Lecture Series continues this evening, Thursday, June 21. Continue reading ‘Snot Otters’ to visit Stone Lab this evening
Giant hogweed, the nasty invasive plant that’s currently in the news — experts discovered it for the first time in Virginia recently — has been found in scattered places in Ohio for a number of years, especially in Ashtabula County in the state’s far northeastern corner.
The 2018 webinar series by CFAES’s Bee Lab continues at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, with a talk called “Ethics in Beekeeping.” Speaking will be Kim Flottum, the editor of Medina-based Bee Culture magazine and the author of The Backyard Beekeeper and Better Beekeeping, among others.
It’s free to watch; use the “Guest Login” at 8:55 a.m.
Learn more. (Photo: iStock.)
CFAES’s Chadwick Arboretum in Columbus is offering free recycling of plastic plant pots, cell packs and trays on Saturday, June 16.