Articles About conservation

• Yellow Springs a home for purple martins, too

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 9, 2023

  

  On the 61-acre property of Larry and Robin Weinstein are eight tall poles that hold a few dozen white, gourd-shaped containers that offer a spring and summer home to more than 600 purple martin birds.

• Tin Can Economy — A space in the school for the swifts

  By Reilly DixonAugust 19, 2021

  

  Walk over to the Union School House on a clear late summer evening and you’ll see them. Swooping and darting through the dusk, conducting aerial dramas against the backdrop of a setting sun: chimney swifts. Hundreds of them.

• Community Solutions buys half of Arnovitz farm

  By Audrey HackettMarch 17, 2017

  

  All nine parcels of the Arnovitz farm were sold at auction Thursday, March 16. Nearly half the land was purchased by Community Solutions, which plans to establish a center for regenerative agriculture on the property and relocate its offices there.

• Seeding a food revolution

  By Audrey HackettAugust 20, 2015

  

  Here in the heart of industrial agriculture, a quiet revolution has begun. It’s small-scale, and plans to stay that way. Its dimensions are measured not in acres, but millimeters.

• Easement to protect Glen for good

  By Matt MindeFebruary 28, 2013

  With the support of a resounding 10 nonprofit, state and local government agencies, as well as $1.6 million in secured funding, the Glen has taken its first step into the protective fold of a permanent conservation easement.

• Flush with water— Thinking conservation amidst plenty

  By Megan BachmanJune 14, 2012

  

  Ask villagers about their experience with Yellow Springs water and the stories will flow.

• Green space funds waning

  By Megan BachmanMay 10, 2012

  A state program used to preserve area farmland for a decade has been halted, hindering a local land trust’s efforts to protect land from development.