Posted on 01/26/21 by Elizabeth in Educational Outreach
This February help us Love Lake Erie by picking up litter with us! If we each pick up a few pieces we will easily surpass our challenge goal to remove at least 500 pieces of litter from the county watersheds. American Rivers sponsors all of our cleanups and they have introduced us to an App called Litterati. If you... read more
Posted on 01/19/21 by Jakob in Urban Agriculture
If you look at the manicured parks and trees lining the streets around your city, you may notice that these trees are not typically fruit bearing. While we have addressed some of the reasons this is the case in this article about allergies, there is a recently growing movement to plant trees and plants that bear fruit in... read more
Posted on 01/12/21 by Amy in Educational Outreach
Because me trying to make bread would be an abject failure, I created my own pandemic obsession last year. I decided to harvest the seeds from my cute native plant gardens. Now I live on a small lot, but I’ve made due shrinking the lawn little by little and adding native plants each year where I think I now... read more
Posted on 01/06/21 by Jared in Urban Agriculture
Carbon is at the core of both climate change issues and soil health issues. Generally speaking, we need less carbon in our atmosphere, and more carbon in our soils. When we till, deforest and otherwise disturb our soils, carbon is released into the atmosphere. We can return carbon to the soil through practices such as cover crops, reforestation... read more
Posted on 12/23/20 by Janine in Educational Outreach
This crazy year of 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history. Books will be written, and tales of survival will be shared for years to come. So as the year ends, I want to reflect on these last twelve months at the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District. In hindsight we may not have anticipated how 2020 would... read more
