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.
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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.
Probably not a good sign
Read the full story (with video) by WOSU Public Media’s Elizabeth Miller.
This is a jar of algae taken from Lake Erie. That's not a healthy lake. https://t.co/OFciYYdtNz pic.twitter.com/54nnKWIyPu
— WOSU News (@wosunews) September 19, 2017
See stunning aerial photos of Lake Erie algal blooms
NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has posted some stunning aerial photos, taken Sept. 20, of a harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie. You can see more, too, from Sept. 14 (the fifth one down, among many, may smack your gob) and Aug. 14.
Sssselebrities to follow on Twitter
Follow Skeate, Arwen, Hermione and Mr. Darcy, among others — radiotagged timber rattlesnakes living in southeast Ohio woods — on the @TimberTweets Twitter feed by CFAES’s Peterman Lab. Lab staff are tracking the secretive snakes, an Ohio endangered species, to see how forest management affects them. Venomous but shy, with a taste for eating small rodents (including ones spreading Lyme disease), timber rattlers help ecosystems and, quietly, people.
Lab head Bill Peterman, assistant professor in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, says, “I’ve had a passion for amphibians and reptiles since I was a kid catching frogs and snakes.” He’s in the video above.
Food waste conference is Sept. 15
Ohio State’s 2017 Food Waste Collaborative Conference, a look at new innovations for reducing consumer food waste and policy trends that help or hinder those efforts, is Sept. 15.
CFAES’s Brian Roe, Van Buren Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, is a co-organizer of the event and the collaborative’s leader.
Tour a farmstead, micro dairy in the suburbs
Jedidiah Farm and Studio hosts the Suburban Farmstead and Micro Dairy Tour from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at 5058 Smothers Road in Westerville.
The 5-acre farm uses “ecologically inclusive principles to encourage biodiversity and resilient food production,” the event description says. “Visitors can expect to see a space that is in transition from the typical suburban to perennial food forests, guilds, woodlands and pasture, incorporating annual and perennial crops within rotational grazing principles.”
The free event is part of the Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series and is the specific presenter of this tour.
‘An environmental leader on and off campus’
Tal Shutkin of Shaker Heights, Ohio, pictured, a sophomore in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been named a 2017 Udall Scholar.
The many ways forests help Earth keep its cool
Forests play a complex role in keeping the planet cool, one that goes far beyond the absorption of carbon dioxide, according to new research co-led by a scientist with CFAES. (Photo: California giant redwood trees, Creatas.)
Orange you glad for this workshop? Learn 15 ways to improve your woods and wildlife
If trees, deer, birds (like this brilliant Baltimore oriole), butterflies, mushrooms and more are your things, check out this year’s Ohio River Valley Woodland and Wildlife Workshop. It’s this Saturday, March 25, near Cincinnati.