Discover Ohio’s spring ephemerals—the native spring wildflowers hopefully not steamrolled by the invasive lesser celandine of our previous post—in a new Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine article by CFAES’ Carrie Brown. (Photo: Virginia springbeauty, Getty Images.)
On The Farm
Part of the solution
Agriculture can play a key role in limiting climate change, says a new report by the U.N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The lead author of the report’s agriculture section was CFAES researcher Brent Sohngen.
Read about Sohngen’s work on the report. (Photo: Getty Images.)
How to build a weather-resilient farm
Climate change is happening. It’s happening here. It’s happening now.
That’s the message that Aaron Wilson, climate specialist with CFAES’ OSU Extension outreach arm, is sharing with Ohio farmers. He talks to them about how they can make their farms more resilient to weather extremes—to the warmer-than-average temperatures, unusually heavy rains, flooding, and more that Ohio is seeing from climate change.
“It’s not a future issue,” he says. “The time to prepare is right now.”
How to use manure, protect environment
Manure happens. And when it does, there are ways you can use it that help crops grow and yet also protect the environment.
That’s the premise of Waste to Worth 2022, set for April 18–22 near Toledo, which will share the latest science on animal agriculture and environmental stewardship.
CFAES sustainability news, Feb. 28, 2022
White House science office to hold first-ever event on countering ‘climate delayism’
Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022; featuring Kerry Ard, CFAES School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR)
Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect
NPR, Feb. 20, 2022; spin-off from research by Richard Dick, SENR
Get all the latest on conservation tillage
Wondering how climate change may affect agriculture, food quality, and public health? Want to learn how tile drainage impacts river flashiness? Or what kinds of insects are beneficial for sustainable agriculture? The answers to these questions and more will be discussed during the annual Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference (CTC), held March 8–9 in Ada, Ohio. The conference is presented by CFAES and other supporters.
Read the full story. (Photo: Reduced tillage corn, Getty Images.)
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.
(Photo: Eastern whip-poor-will, Getty Images.)
Stressed by farming? Turn worry into action
Learn new ways to handle the stress of farming in a workshop during the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) conference.
Let’s talk about dealing with farm stress
Can farm work and farm life really balance? That’s the focus and title of a workshop set for 3–4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, during the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association (OEFFA) conference.
Led by Taylor Mendell of Vermont’s Footprint Farm and Kelly Cabral, a CFAES graduate student and a prevention coordinator with Ohio State’s Ohio Youth Resilience Collaborative, the online workshop will feature a discussion of “managing stresses big and small.”
How to make farming inclusive to everyone
When you think of a farmer, what comes to mind? CFAES alumna Yolanda Owens ’07, president of the CFAES Alumni Society Board of Directors and the first Black/Latinx person to hold this position, will tackle the topic in a talk called “Black Culture and Green Thumbs” during the online portion of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s (OEFFA) upcoming annual conference.