Land & Environmental Section
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Yellow Springs Earth Day celebration set for Sunday
The YS Earth Day and Community Habitat Celebration will be 1–4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, on the YS Senior Center-owned lawn at the corner of East North College and Livermore streets.
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County beekeepers to hear arborist talk
The Greene County Beekeepers Association will host Mike Connor, speaking on “Trees for Bees,” Tuesday, April 15, at 7 p.m., at Xenia Community Center, 1265 W. 2nd St., Xenia.
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Annual winter hike to follow Little Miami River
Naturalists with the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will lead the division’s annual 3.5-mile winter hike along the Little Miami State and National Scenic River on Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Tecumseh Land Trust to host annual sugar shack tour
Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, will host its annual sugar shack tour event at Flying Mouse Farms on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2–4 p.m. Tours will begin at 2, and continue at 20-minute intervals, starting at the TLT office on Whitehall Farm, 4633 U.S. 68 North, where sugar shack visitors are asked to park.
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Tin Can Economy | Huddled masses
“Climate migration is nothing new. The International Displacement Monitoring Centre estimates that an annual average of 21.5 million people were forcibly displaced each year by weather-related events — such as floods, storms, wildfires and droughts — between 2008 and 2016.”
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185-acre farmland for sale in ‘greenbelt’ around Yellow Springs
All three tracts are zoned agricultural and are beyond Yellow Springs’ urban service boundary — that is, beyond the reach of municipal utilities. They are subject to the provisions of Miami Township’s zoning regulations, which require minimum lots of three acres and lot frontage of 300 continuous feet.
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Butter Flower Farm blooms on Fairfield
Butter Flower Farm, or BFF, is an 11-acre sustainable farm currently specializing in dried flowers. The farm is owned and operated by local farmers Evan Pitstick and Larissa Duprey and florist Brenn Busker.
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Down to Earth | October showers bring November flowers
“The severe drought we experienced in late summer this year has led to several interesting phenomena in the plant world.”
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Agraria offers climate hope through biochar workshop
Agraria will host a biochar workshop Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, at Agraria Farm. The hands-on workshop will be led by instructors Mark Cohen, Gary Gilmore and Dale Hendricks.
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Greenbelt farm land heads to sale
According to Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, Executive Director Michele Burns, the anticipated asking price is $22,000 per acre and “for sale” signs will likely be in the coming week.
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