Land & Environmental Section :: Page 29

• Aurora Borealis over Yellow Springs

  By Megan BachmanOctober 31, 2011

  

  Thanks to an especially strong solar wind hitting the earth’s magnetosphere, last week the Northern lights were visible in Yellow Springs.

• Tecumseh Land Trust presents Food Power

  By YS News StaffOctober 12, 2011

  

  Food Power, a conference organized by Tecumseh Land Trust, will feature Will Allen, noted urban farmer and Michelle Obama’s White House garden coach.

• Tecumseh Land Trust to auction coveted surprises

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 27, 2011

  

  Use this weekend’s Tecumseh Land Trust auction to learn some Zumba, eat a gourmet meal, or get some weeding done.

• Ohio farm group to host fracking webinar

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 26, 2011

  

  The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association will host an educational webinar on the controversial subject of high-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. The internet broadcast, entitled “Fracking and Farmland: What Farmers and Landowers Need to Know About the Risks to Air, Water and Land,” will provide […]

• Villagers Agna, Reynolds honored

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 22, 2011

  

  When villagers Mary Agna and Macy Reynolds are inducted next week into the Greene County Women’s Hall of Fame, they will be among 23 other local women to receive the honor.

• No-fracking event aims to mobilize

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 8, 2011

  Yellow Springs will host a regional meeting of community organizers working to prevent hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique linked to groundwater contamination.

• The village is breaking out in hives

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 1, 2011

  

  Thanks to village beekeepers, the town’s flowering trees and vegetation might be healthier, backyard gardens more productive and fruit trees more fruitful.

• Semler dairy preserved in Jacoby

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2011

  

  The 171-acre Semler farm on Snypp Road is the first land in the Jacoby Creek watershed preserved with Village funds and one of four remaining dairies in Greene County.

• New wells for Vernay clean up

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 21, 2011

  The two new capture wells that appeared at the Vernay Laboratories site on Dayton Street this summer are adding to the forces aimed at cleaning up the industrial contamination at the site.

• Exotic plants take root on US 68

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When a group of plant enthusiasts took over the Village property on U.S. 68 North that was formerly the home of Stutzman’s Nursery, the weeds were so high that the property’s dozen greenhouses were barely visible above them.