CFAES’ Buckeye Yard & Garden onLine website recently told the story of a new project on Kelleys Island, which lies in western Lake Erie. Two CFAES educators, Thomas deHaas and Les Ober, were among the project’s collaborators, and in the end the team’s work all boiled down to a first: the first-ever run of Kelleys Island “Glacially Groovy” maple syrup. (Photo: A shoreline scene on Kelleys Island, Getty Images.)
“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.
If you’re new or new-ish to making maple syrup, there’s a lot you can learn at Ohio’s upcoming Maple Bootcamp …
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 …
(Updated, Dec. 9: The one-quart and one-gallon jugs are now sold out. In addition, until further notice, in-person pick-up is no longer an option due to Franklin County’s pandemic status.)
(Updated, Oct. 13: You can now order online for delivery to your home.)
Buckeye fans now can pour official Ohio State Maple Syrup on their pancakes. It comes from the university’s Mansfield campus, where students and faculty with CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) planned and are running a nearly 20-acre sugarbush. A sugarbush is a maple tree forest used to produce maple syrup.
CFAES’ Agriculture and Natural Resources Madness series continues today, Monday, April 20, with “How Producers Can Start Selling Food to Schools” at noon and “How Producers and Food Related Businesses Can Start Farm to School Efforts” at 3 p.m. Find the links to watch.
Today’s first session, “Starting a Farm to School Program,” has ended, but you can find the link to the replay here.
Viewing the sessions in the series is free. (Photo: Getty Images.)
https://youtu.be/EQrQjNNZCAo
Want to learn more about pawpaw trees, and about producing and marketing their tropical-tasting fruit? Here’s a chance to get your paws—er, feet—wet.
Chances are you’ve been noticing more Ohio-grown produce at your grocer, and not just in summer but in winter, too.
Turns out there are good reasons for it, including a red-hot industry, support from CFAES, and warm, cozy shelter from the storms.
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.)
CFAES is helping Ohio grow more pawpaws. What exactly are pawpaws? They’re a “fruit few have eaten,” but that may be changing, says a story in our latest CFAES Impact.