NOAA will offer its annual harmful algal bloom forecast for western Lake Erie on Thursday, June 30. Stone Laboratory and Ohio Sea Grant, both part of CFAES, will host the live web event.
Learn more and register to attend. (Photo: Marblehead Lighthouse, Getty Images.)
Registration is open for the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association’s 2022 national conference, set for July 21–24 at Ohio State and Central State, Ohio’s 1862 and 1890 land-grant institutions.
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“Although we think of restoration as a science, it’s also about creativity. Prairie restoration begins with a vision. The dream of how the land might be healed, imagined in the mind of a steward or site manager.” So writes author Cindy Crosby in Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit.
On Tuesday, June 14, prairie restoration—and the use of creativity and imagination in the process—will be the focus of a field trip hosted by CFAES’ Environmental Professionals Network. Titled “If You Listen Carefully, It Sounds Like Love,” the event, its website says, will be “a celebration of beauty in the sounds of nine Ohio prairie seeds”—including wild bergamot, big bluestem, little bluestem, dogbane, and milkweed—“and the steps we can take as a bioregional community to help them thrive again.”
Science, May 16, 2022; featuring Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources
Yale E360, May 10, 2022; featuring Joyce Chen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
Phys.org, May 8, 2022; featuring Justin Chaffin, Stone Lab
“While sugar maple is considered ‘the’ tree to tap for syrup, there are also other maples you can tap.”
Those are the words of Kathy Smith, forestry program director for the CFAES School of Environment and Natural Resources. She’s one of the organizers of our upcoming Maple Bootcamp, which will let you know which maples those are, along with a whole lot more.
So, there’s a wildflower in Ohio named for its “resemblance to a pair of upside-down pantaloons.” See it and more in “The Splendors of Spring—Part 2” (lots of great photos) by CFAES’ Carrie Brown on Buckeye Yard & Garden onLine. (Photo: Said pantaloon-resembling wildflower, Getty Images.)
WTVG (Toledo), April 29, 2022; featuring Amy Stone, OSU Extension, Lucas County office
If you’re new or new-ish to making maple syrup, there’s a lot you can learn at Ohio’s upcoming Maple Bootcamp …
The Wooster Daily Record reports on this past Saturday’s Scarlet, Gray, and Green Fair at CFAES Wooster (video and photos included).
Check out the speakers you can listen to and talk about ideas with at the Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair, set for Saturday, April 23, at the CFAES Wooster Campus …