Got backyard chickens? Educators with CFAES’ OSU Extension outreach arm have tips for keeping your cluckers healthy and snug in the coming winter.
Month: October 2019
Come plant a tree on Ohio State’s campus
Ohio State’s Columbus campus, in part with the help of CFAES’ Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens, has earned Tree Campus USA certification for the past eight years in a row.
One of the certification requirements is a service learning project, and later this week you’re invited to join us and pitch in to help with the project: the ArboBlitz Community Tree Planting from 1–4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, on the south side of the Ohio Union.
It’s free to participate and you don’t need to register.
The trees will be types that are native to Ohio.
Dig further details. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Secrest has secrets. Here’s a chance to see them
Discover Secrest Arboretum’s “far corners and hidden treasures”—plants and places that visitors rarely see (including the distant “back 40”)—on a tour called “Hidden Gems of Secrest” set for Wednesday, Oct. 23. Hours are 1-3 p.m. Admission is free but registration is required. The arboretum is part of our CFAES Wooster campus.
Find out more and register. (Photo: Getty Images.)
What can you learn in a school garden? Join us
You can learn about all you can grow in a school garden, especially good fresh food and student learning, at a conference next week that’s devoted to the topic.
Now THAT’S a great pumpkin, Charlie Brown
So, if you see a giant pumpkin this fall, and are inspired to try to grow one in spring, check out these how-to tips from CFAES.
Ohio’s farm crisis: Why leaving a field unplanted can hurt it
Some 1.5 million acres of Ohio’s farm fields—an area twice the size of Rhode Island—didn’t have any corn, soybeans, or other cash crops planted on them this year. Reason: Record spring rain made the ground too wet to plant. Now those fields are at risk of problems from something called fallow syndrome, which is caused by the loss of crop-friendly microbes that live—or lived—in the fields’ soils.
Experts from CFAES explain. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Stone Lab offers solar tech curriculum
Hey, educators: Ohio State’s Stone Laboratory at Lake Erie is offering a free STEM-related curriculum on solar technology. The program teaches about how solar energy works, its uses and benefits, and ties into the lab’s own solar installation on Gibraltar Island, some of which is shown here.
You can find out more about the curriculum, which is suited to students from elementary age to adult, in the latest on our CFAES Stories website. (Photo: Ohio Sea Grant via Flickr.)
Enjoy fall colors, pollinators on Wednesday
See the fall colors—and the still-busy bees and butterflies, too—when CFAES’ Secrest Arboretum in Wooster holds a Guided Autumn and Pollinator Walk at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. Admission is free and open to the public. Learn more. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Secrets of Ohio’s mystery fruit revealed
New on our CFAES Stories site: Details on CFAES efforts to help Ohioans grow more of a little-known native fruit. Fun fact: Ohio brewers are using it lately to good effect in craft beers. Read the story. (Photo: CFAES’ Matt Davies with the fruit tree in question, John Rice, CFAES.)
Sustaining southeast Ohio’s mighty oaks
CFAES is helping sustain oak forests and the many kinds of life that need them. As a member of the Ohio Interagency Forestry Team, the college’s OSU Extension outreach arm is part of a collective effort to restore oak-dominated forests across 17 counties in southeast Ohio.
