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Join members of the urban ag team for a variety of crop management topics aimed to help your urban ag farm operate more efficiently and profitably. The field day will be held at the North End Community Improvement Collaboration (NECIC) site, which has several types of actively farmed high tunnels and raised bed systems on location. Learn about strawberry production, modernizing your irrigation system, and the benefits of row covers. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes with time for questions. Bring your production challenges and we’ll discuss how to solve them.

DATE: June 25, 2025, 4-6 p.m.
PRESENTERS: Fernanda Krupek, Jim Jasinski, and Yiyun Lin - The Ohio State University
LOCATION: North End Community Improvement Collaboration, 311 Bowman Street, Mansfield, OH

REGISTRATION: Required for this free event by June 20. https://go.osu.edu/necic25

Complete details and printable/sharable flier.
For more information contact Jim Jasinski.4@osu.edu.

The Ohio General Assembly is currently considering several bills that would affect agriculture, farmers, livestock producers, sellers of homemade foods, landowners, and students participating in FFA or 4-H. Read more.

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The first event in the Summer 2025 Webinar Series with the Ohio State Library Research Commons is on Friday, May 16.

Globally, governments and civic organizations are making data about our communities – or “civic data” – available as open data. Goals of government transparency, accountability, civic participation, and research have motivated this opening of data, but meeting these goals has been constrained by data fluency barriers and lack of awareness of data. To support use and advance democratization of open civic data, the Civic Switchboard project works to build capacity in libraries to serve as local data intermediaries, connectors between communities and data about communities. 

This presentation will introduce concepts underlying the Civic Switchboard project’s work - data intermediaries and local data ecosystems - and the guiding premise of our work: that cultivating a healthy local civic data ecosystem depends upon the coordinated efforts of a variety of data intermediaries and that libraries are well-positioned to serve in intermediary roles. The presentation will share examples of data intermediary roles that involve open civic data, strategies for developing local civic data partnerships, and the opportunity to approach open civic data work through a data justice lens. 

The presentation will also highlight adjacent work focused on expanding adoption of and community around the open source technology CKAN, a software program that supports open civic data initiatives internationally.

Register for this Center for Urban and Regional Analysis webinar.

Soil Health in Urban Sphere Webinar – The Ohio State Urban Ag Team invites interested parties to attend the Soil Health Webinar Series to be presented on April 10, 8-9 am by Dr. Jeff Hattey and Dr. Fernanda Krupek. Attendance is free and registration here is required.

While soil contaminants (heavy metals) are a concern in urban agriculture, the physical and hydrological parameters of urban soils are equally important but less studied or discussed.  Additionally, tunnel systems — curved metal frames covered with greenhouse plastic — are popular in urban settings due to their cost-effectiveness and adaptability, but they require an extra layer of soil management to ensure quality crops. In this webinar, Dr. Jeff Hattey and Dr. Fernanda Krupek will share information, research results, and opportunities for collaboration on ongoing projects for safe and sustained urban soil management.