The Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues this Saturday, Oct. 21, with two events, both rooted in grass: The Pastured Providence Farmstead Open House from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Chillicothe in southern Ohio, and the Pasture-Raised Livestock Beginning Farm Tour from 4 to 7 p.m. in Ashtabula in the state’s far northeast corner. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series. Download the series brochure.
Author: Kurt Knebusch
‘Imagine a world without birdsong’: Environmental Film Series continues Oct. 23
Ohio State’s 2017 Environmental Film Series continues on Monday, Oct. 23, from 7 to 9 p.m. with “The Messenger: Imagine a World Without Birdsong.”
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author to speak at Ohio State
J.D. Vance, Middletown native, Ohio State alumnus and best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy, will propose a hands-on approach to problems facing his home state — opioid addiction, under-preparedness of the workforce and domestic instability — when he presents “Beyond Hillbilly Elegy: Recovery, Rebirth, Renewal” on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 4:30 p.m. on the university’s Columbus campus. Admission is free but you need to register in advance. Get details and find a link to register.
New Ohio Sea Grant studies: Science in service to water — and you
Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program has announced its new funded studies for 2018 to 2020, and two involve CFAES scientists. From glyphosate runoff to pharmaceuticals in water to algal blooms’ impact on fishing for walleye, check out the lines of research.
Catch ‘Food Evolution’ in Wooster Nov. 7
“Food Evolution,” which screens this Wednesday, Oct. 18, on Ohio State’s Columbus campus, has a second screening scheduled on Nov. 7 on CFAES’s Wooster campus. A panel discussion afterward will include CFAES Dean Cathann A. Kress. Admission is free and open to the public. Learn more and request tickets.
Students: Help get people to stop dumping trash in Lake Erie
The 2018 Ohio Marine Debris Challenge is underway. It’s a video public service announcement (PSA) contest for students in grades 9 -12 in the Lake Erie region, co-sponsored by Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program, aimed at reducing marine debris (plastic and other trash) in the lake. The first-place prize includes tickets to Cedar Point. The deadline to submit entries is March 16, 2018. Get details.
CFAES at World Food Prize event
Nine faculty, staff and visiting scholars, including Dean Cathann A. Kress and ATI Director Kristina Boone, will represent CFAES at next week’s Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium in Iowa. Organizers hold the event in conjunction with the awarding of the World Food Prize.
Environmental Film Series starts Oct. 16 with ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
The 2017 Environmental Film Series, co-sponsored by CFAES’s Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) and Ohio State’s Office of Energy and Environment, kicks off at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, with a screening of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” a 10-years-later followup to Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning climate change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Admission is free and open to the public; free pizza and beverages at 6:45 p.m. Meet in Room 130 in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry (CBEC) Building on the university’s Columbus campus.
Heather Taylor-Miesle, executive director of the Ohio Environmental Council, and Peter Curtis, professor of ecology in Ohio State’s Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, will lead a discussion after the screening.
The series runs six consecutive Mondays through Nov. 20. Next is “The Messenger” (tagline: “Imagine a world without birdsong”) on Oct. 23.
‘Food Evolution’ screens Oct. 18 at Ohio State
Two CFAES student groups, the Food Science Club and the Citation Needed science and agriculture communicators club, present a free public screening of the film “Food Evolution” at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Ohio Union on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Narrated by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the film explores the “controversy around the science of food through the lens of the debate over genetically engineered foods,” according to the event flier. A postscreening discussion features UC-Davis scientist Alison Van Eenenaam, who’s interviewed in the film. Learn more.
Organizers are planning a Nov. 7 screening on CFAES’s Wooster campus.
Workshop for new and aspiring farmers
The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association holds its Farm Vision Workshop this Sunday, Oct. 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. in Columbus. Consider attending if you’re a new or aspiring farmer. The workshop will “help you map out your farm vision, clarify your goals and values, and assess your strengths, resources and needs before beginning a farming enterprise,” the event description says. A panel of early-career farmers will speak, too. Get details.
The event is part of the Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series.