Articles About sustainability :: Page 2

• Tour green homes, businesses in and around Yellow Springs

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 3, 2014

  

  Hosts from Yellow Springs and the surrounding area will open their homes and businesses this weekend for the 2014 Green Energy Ohio tour.

• VIDEO — Local farmer to seed from the sky

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2013

  

  Local farmer Jim Clem is using aerial crop seeding to plant cover crops this fall. See a video featuring Clem on the new technique for increasing soil fertility.

• Join the sustainable food discussion

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 28, 2012

  

  Ellen Dawson-Witt is hosting a discussion course “Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability,” at her tiny house in Yellow Springs on Tuesdays.

• Goat mowing at Antioch

  By Megan BachmanOctober 26, 2011

  

  To clear weeds at the Antioch College farm, the college has turned to four-legged help.

• Tour of a Tiny House

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 28, 2011

  

  When Ellen Dawson-Witt wanted to live a more sustainable life, she didn’t take half-measures — she downsized to a house the size of a shed. Now she’s offering a sustainability course out of her tiny house starting Tuesday, Oct. 1.

• “Radical” farm takes root

  By Megan BachmanMay 17, 2011

  

  Amy Batchman started Radical Roots Farm outside of Yellow Springs with big plans for the seven-acre homestead.

• Forests for local food

  By Megan BachmanApril 18, 2011

  

  Mark Shepard told a crowd of 120 villagers to transform our farm fields into forests for more local food.

• Forest gardens in your own yard

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2010

  

  Growing food in a backyard garden can be a lot of work. But by designing a “forest garden” of trees and shrubs, aligned with ecological principles, gardeners can achieve a food yield sustainably, with less maintenance. This is the essence of a seven-day forest gardening workshop from Aug. 9 to Aug. 15 on a farm homestead north of Yellow Springs on Hustead Road…