Land & Environmental Section :: Page 12

• Walk, talk pollinators with master gardeners

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2019

  

  Master Gardeners Terese DeSimio and Macy Reynolds will lead a series of walks focusing on native pollinators this summer. The first walk will be held Sunday, June 16, beginning at the Women’s Park on Corry Street at 1:30 p.m.

• A tornadic near-miss Monday

  By Lauren ShowsJune 6, 2019

  

  Around 11 p.m. on Monday, May 27, Yellow Springs residents were roused from their beds by the whine of tornado sirens as the National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for Yellow Springs.

• 20th anniversary of Whitehall Farm auction— ‘Saving Whitehall’ legacy

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Whitehall Farm was permanently preserved. A local land trust was put on the map. And a community victory still inspires.

• Group organizing against area industrial solar farm

  By Megan BachmanMay 8, 2019

  

  A group of neighbors and farmers organizing against a proposed industrial-scale solar farm just outside of Yellow Springs and Clifton are hosting an informational meeting. It will be held Friday, May 10, at 6 p.m. at the Grace Baptist Church in Cedarville.

• Indigenous Water Protectors panel — A path to “re-indigenizing” Antioch

  By Megan BachmanMay 2, 2019

  

  At a panel at Antioch College for “Earth Week,” indigenous leaders from the Oglala Lakota, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Dakota Wakpala, Northern Cheyenne, Kiowa and Anishinaabe spoke about water protection and other environmental and human rights issues.

• Antioch College’s Earth Week—All are invited to ‘wade in’

  By Carol SimmonsApril 25, 2019

  

  A series of Earth Day-related events on the Antioch College campus next week  invites the entire community to “Wade In” on environmental justice, particularly in relationship to water.

• Local agriculture conference — A growing green movement

  By Megan BachmanMarch 14, 2019

  

  Unless new farming practices are adopted, the world has only 60 years of harvests left, the United Nations announced a few years ago. 

• Food justice the focus of Dayton food & farming conference

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 27, 2019

  

  Food justice is the focus of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 40th annual conference, Feb. 14–16 at the Dayton Convention Center.

• Yellow Springers to participate—Area food and farming event focuses on justice

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 24, 2019

  

  Farmer and educator Onika Abraham, a national leader of the food justice movement, believes that the current food system creates pockets where healthy food isn’t available. Just don’t call them food deserts.

• New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

  By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

  

  The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”