2021 Yellow Springs News Merchandise
Sep
18
2021

Articles About community solutions

  • Local food conference to return

    By Megan BachmanMarch 12, 2020

    Soil scientist Bob Hendershot taught a session during a land assessment workshop held at the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture last summer. Hendershot, whose career was with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, will return for a local farming conference organized by the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions on March 15–17. A free talk by farmer Renee Winner on how to transition to organic agriculture will kick off the event at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 15. (Submitted photo by Amy Harper)

    Successful farm-to-school programs. Stories from local farmers coping with climate change. Strategies for turning conventional farms organic. Those topics and more will be explored at “Growing Green 2020: Investing in Conservation and Local Food,” a joint conference of the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions.

  • Mary’s Way— A new trail to Agraria

    By Audrey HackettJanuary 16, 2020

    A new trail will connect Yellow Springs and Agraria, Community Solutions’ center for regenerative land use located west of the village.

  • Suns past and present

    By Audrey HackettJanuary 9, 2020

    Summer’s long gone, but the seed head of a large sunflower was still beautifully intact — and observing its own shadow — at Agraria this week.

  • Swearing in public

    By Megan Bachman

    New Village Council member Laura Curliss was sworn in at Council’s first meeting of the year on Monday, Jan. 6, by Yellow Springs Mayor Pam Conine.

  • Community Solutions conference— Hope in regenerative practices

    By Carol SimmonsOctober 31, 2019

    But messages of efficacy and hope, which can get lost in crisis turmoil, are at the heart of a three-day national conference Nov. 1–3 in Yellow Springs.
    “Pathways to Regeneration: Soil, Food, and Plant Medicine,” presented by the locally based Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, will offer alternative ways of thinking and acting.