The Columbus Urban Farm Tour Series continues with a stop at Project AquaStar, an expanded aquaculture and vegetable farm, from 10:30 a.m. to noon Aug. 23.
Located at St. Stephen’s Community House in Columbus, the farm produces, among other things, herbs, vegetables and tilapia through aquaponics. By improving food security and health awareness, it’s “become a beacon of hope in the Linden community,” according to the house’s website.
Free admission. Find out more.
See the food and good growing in Columbus’s Friends of the Homeless Garden when the Columbus Urban Farm Tour Series hosts a visit called “Urban Community Garden Serving Homeless Men” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 19. Admission is free. Find further details. (Photo: Getty Images.)
The Columbus Urban Farm Tour Series, co-sponsored by CFAES’s Ohio State University Extension outreach arm, presents “New Urban Farm in Residential Neighborhood” from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, July 26, at Freshtown Farm, 1282 Ann St., in Columbus. Free admission. Details.
On Saturday, July 14, Magic House Farm, which spans a half acre of formerly vacant lots in Columbus’s Franklinton neighborhood, will host the next stop in the Columbus Urban Farm Tour Series. You’re invited, the tour flier says, to see “how this urban oasis in a distressed neighborhood has grown from a small one-man operation to a flourishing and necessary neighborhood resource.” Free admission. Read more. See the series schedule.
The free, five-stop Columbus Urban Farm Tour Series, co-hosted by CFAES’s OSU Extension outreach arm, kicks off on Tuesday, July 10, at Harriet Gardens, 42 W. Jenkins Ave. Get details and the full series schedule.
A.G. Kawamura, who presents “Envisioning an Agricultural Renaissance” at 5 p.m. today at Ohio State in Columbus, talked about food security, water and farming’s future in an interview last year with the University of Nebraska’s Market Journal.
The next monthly Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) breakfast program, “Land Grant to Land-Grant: Lessons in Sustainability from a Brewery in Our Backyard,” will feature Columbus’s Land-Grant Brewing Company, a small urban craft brewery.
The speaker, Land-Grant sustainability manager Vincent Valentino, will share “successes, challenges and failures that the brewery has faced in its first year of pursuing sustainability,” the event description says. He’ll also “talk about their partnership with urban farmers, Columbus community groups and where they want to go next.”
The event is tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 9, from 7:15 to 9:30 a.m. on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Read more and register.
EPN is a service of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Ohio State’s Mansfield campus now has a microfarm. It’s thanks to assistant professor Kip Curtis, recent graduate Tyler Arter, student interns, and help from 30 students in CFAES’s Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability major. Read the story in Farm and Dairy.
The third-of-an-acre farm includes two high tunnels and about 50 raised beds. “We hope to begin to model the cutting edge of urban agriculture and demonstrate its promise for an evolving food system,” Curtis said in an Ohio State Mansfield press release.
Funding came from a $100,00 grant from Ohio State’s President and Provost’s Council on Sustainability, which, according to its website, “provides strategic advisement on the integration of sustainable practices, programs and projects” throughout the university. (Photo: Ohio State Mansfield.)
Next in the Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series are two Aug. 8 events for young farmers, beginning farmers, urban farmers or all three. Continue reading
“See how a low-cost, low-input food garden in the backyard of a residence can easily be adapted to provide food for food-insecure families.”
So says the description for this Saturday’s (Aug. 5) Residential Permaculture Food Garden Tour from 2 to 4 p.m. at Sunny Glen Wellness in Columbus. Continue reading