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Keep it healthy and green, with little or no runoff of nutrients affecting water quality

Get tips for keeping lawns green and waters blue in a newly revised fact sheet from CFAES.

Called “Efficient Lawn Care Practices to Help Protect Ohio’s Waterways,” the fact sheet details exactly that—ways to get the most out of your fertilizer dollar, make your lawn as healthy as it can be, and prevent the runoff of nutrients that can lead to harmful algal blooms.

What’s the best time of year to apply fertilizer? Why test your soil? What does “N-P-K” mean? Answers are in the fact sheet, whose authors are experts from CFAES and Davey Tree.

You can read or download the fact sheet free at go.osu.edu/greenlawncare. (Photo: Getty Images.)

An app (and more) for that? Study offers ‘intriguing glimpse’ into ways to cut household food waste

Individualized coaching coupled with an app for tracking could help families greatly reduce some types of food waste, in turn helping combat climate change.

That’s a finding from a recent study co-led by Brian Roe, holder of CFAES’ Fred N. VanBuren Professorship in Farm Management.

Read the full story. (Photo: Getty Images.)

CFAES sustainability news, Feb. 11, 2022

Ice cover could help Lake Erie’s struggling yellow perch as reduced fishing limits loom

Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 6, 2022; Ohio State research cited

Dozens of Great Lakes scientists join rare February sampling campaign to study ‘the changing face of winter’

Mirage News, Feb. 3, 2022; Ohio State researchers included

Out in the darkness the whip-poor-wills cry

Using GPS tags attached to the birds, associate professor Chris Tonra and graduate student Aaron Skinner, both of CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, helped discover some surprising facts about the long migrations that eastern whip-poor-wills make from their Midwestern (including Ohio) breeding grounds.

Read the full story.

(Photo: Eastern whip-poor-will, Getty Images.)

I looked a coyote right in the face

The next monthly program by CFAES’ Environmental Professionals Network (EPN), “Coyotes, Coffee, and Carnivores” is Tuesday, Feb. 15, online or in person. The theme is “exploring human-animal coexistence in a crowded world.” The esteemed speaker lineup includes Stan Gehrt, CFAES’ own world-renowned expert on urban wildlife.

Get details about the EPN program, including how to register.