Local Matters and the Godman Guild, both of Columbus, and CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, are co-hosting three upcoming workshops for people who farm in the city or want to. The topics are backyard chickens, keeping urban honey bees, and keeping the food you grow clean and safe. The theme is “Grow Your Own.” Details.
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Grow your own food in the city? 3 ways to learn how to do it
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on May 16th, 2013
See what they’re growing, learn how they do it
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on May 15th, 2013
This year’s Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series schedule has been announced. Download the booklet, which has details on the farms, topics, dates, locations, directions, etc., here (pdf). A co-sponsor of the series is CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team.
Innovative ditch design: Two stages, many benefits
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 26th, 2013
You may think there’s only one way to dig a ditch. But Andy Ward has a better idea. And farms, farmers, soils, plants, animals, and water are all better for it. Story plus video link …
You guys are guests in my corn. And there’s nothing in it for me
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 2nd, 2013
In northern Ohio, what used to be only a minor pest in lawns is now threatening to become a major problem in corn. And it, too, is an invasive species (pdf).
Watch: For sustainability science, scientist, Ohio State ‘is a paradise’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on March 19th, 2013
Rattan Lal grew up on a small farm in India. Today he’s a world-renowned soil scientist (Iceland’s president is a fan, for instance) and a Distinguished University Professor in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. He works on three of the planet’s biggest (and mostly interconnected) issues: hunger, climate change, and water pollution. Ohio State “is a paradise for a researcher,” he says in a new video interview (2:14). “It provides an opportunity to do research globally.”
Watch: ‘Truly exciting’ roads ahead in local foods, sustainable agriculture
March 8th, 2013
“In the years ahead, figuring out how to feed an ever-expanding global population without depleting our planet’s resources and degrading the environment will be critical,” says OSU Extension educator Mike Hogan, who says sustainable agriculture and local foods are part of the solution (video; 1:20).
Not coincidentally, he adds, sustainable agriculture and local foods have roots in all three Ohio State Discovery Themes: Health and Wellness, Energy and Environment, and Food Production and Security. Learn more about the themes here.
Feb. 21: How to manage soil quality for urban farming
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on February 19th, 2013
Joshua Beniston, a doctoral candidate in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, presents “Assessing and Managing Soil Quality for Urban Agriculture” Feb. 21. It’s part of SENR’s spring seminar series.
Video: Columbus’s new urban-farming hoop house
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on February 18th, 2013
Tour the new Godman Guild-Knowlton School of Architecture-OARDC urban hoop house in this cool short video (3:16) by Ohio State Art and Technology student Dylan Dunphy. You can tour the house in person March 2.
March 2: The future of urban farming in Ohio
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on February 18th, 2013
Next in the “Grow Your Own” workshop series is “The Future of Producing Food in Urban Areas of Ohio” March 2. The program features recently retired CFAES researcher Joe Kovach, pictured, and a hoop house project developed by Columbus’s Godman Guild, Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and CFAES’s research arm, OARDC. Co-sponsors of the series are the Columbus group Local Matters and CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension.
Link to a video about the hoop house in our next post.
Live your small-farm dream: Second Ohio conference on tap
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on February 15th, 2013
There’s a second Ohio Small Farm Conference coming up. It’s on March 23 in Zanesville in northeast Ohio. Its theme: “Living Your Small Farm Dream.” It features more than 30 sessions by experts from industry and from CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension. Get the event flier here (pdf). The first conference, “Opening Doors to Success,” is March 8-9 in Wilmington in southwest Ohio. A co-sponsor of both is the Small Farm Program of OSU Extension.
