Logan County Land Trust

Investigating 18th Century Native America Sites with Greg Shipley
2024-05-07 18:00 - 18:45 (America/Detroit) | Dr. Earl Sloan Library, 2817 Sandusky Street, Zanesfield, OH, 43360, United States
Prehistoric peoples once inhabited most of what is now Logan County, and indigenous tribal groups populated locations such as McKee’s Town, Moluntha’s Town, Wapatomica and others as late as 1786.

For over 30 years, Mr. Shipley, along with the Wayne’s Legion Research Group amateur archaeologist team, have been granted permission by property owners to conduct extensive research and excavations at various historical sites.

In his 45-minute presentation, Mr. Shipley will share fascinating information and cultural observations related to the materials and data collected during his three decades of site investigations, including excavation project images and a diverse array of recovered 18th century trade goods and artifacts.

Please join us in May as we investigate 18th century Native American sites in the Mad River region of Logan County, Ohio.

When: Tuesday May 7th @ 6pm

Where: Dr. Earl Sloan Library (Basement)

Cost: Free to the community!

Space is Limited – Please RSVP through facebook messenger or call the library at 937-210-5449 and leave a message for the program director.

Owls Only
2024-04-18 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Knowlton Library, 220N Main Street, Bellefontaine, OH, 43311, United States
An educational program about owls presented by Logan County Library
Open to all ages
At the Glen Helen Raptor Center on Thursday, April 18 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM at the Knowlton Goodrigh Community room.

Timber Harveting and Marketing
2024-04-17 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Detroit) | AgCredit Building, 5362 US Highway 42, Mt. Gilead, OH, 43338, United States
OSU Extension – Morrow County would like to invite you to an evening about assessing your woods for a timber harvest and the process of choosing a timber company to complete the harvest.
Katie Gerber Ohio Division of Forestry Area Service Forester and Kathy Smith Ohio State University Extension Forestry Program Director will be the presenters for the evening.
April 17th, 2024 @ 6:30 PM
AgCredit Building
5362 US Highway 42
Mt. Gilead, Ohio
Questions: Call or email Carri Jagger at 419-947-1070 or jagger.6@osu.edu

Historic Barns with Robert Kroeger
2024-04-09 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Logan County Transportation Museum, 521 E Columbus Avenue, Bellefontaine, Ohio, 43311
The Logan County Land Trust and Logan County History Center will welcome back author and painter Robert Kroeger to the History Center for a program on historical barns in Ohio (and other states). Mr. Kroeger will not be demonstrating his palette knives and impasto painting technique, like he did at last spring’s program, but he will be discussing interesting and unique barns he has studied over the years. The program will last about 60 minutes and then Mr. Kroeger will be doing a book signing for his book HISTORIC BARNS OF OHIO (2021), which lists paintings and essays of barns in all 88 counties in Ohio. His book ROUND BARNS OF AMERICA (2022) will also be available for purchase and to be signed. The book features 75 round barns from 32 states. Funds raised from the book signings will go towards the LCLT and the LCHC.
The event is free and open to the public.

Building Soil Health and Carbon Intensity
2024-04-03 11:30 - 16:30 (America/Detroit) | Winnners Harvest Barn, 7317 St. Rt. 47 W, DeGraff, OH, 43318, United States
Learn how to improve soil health and reduce carbon intensity in your gardening or farming practices at our event!

Come join us at Winner Family Farms Inc for a day filled with insightful discussions and hands-on workshops on soil health and carbon intensity. Learn from experts in the field and discover practical ways to enhance your soil’s health while reducing carbon emissions. This in-person event will take place at 7317 State Route 47, De Graff, OH, USA. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and take your farming practices to the next level!

Program:
11:30 Registration (visit exhibitors and network with other farmers)
12:00 Lunch provided by American Farmland Trust
12:30 Welcome: Nathan Brause, President Ohio No-till Council and Jessica D’Ambrosio, The Nature Conservancy
12:40 Where Does Your Checkoff Money Really Go?: Marlene Eick, Ohio Corn & Wheat
1:10 Carbon Intensity: Increase Your Income with Soil Health: Mitchell Hora, Continuum Ag
2:15 Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company perspective, regen ag and carbon reduction for dairies and row crops: Ryan Bergman, Danone
2:45 Q&A: Mitchell Hora and Ryan Bergman
3:00 Break
3:10 On farm soil health, Cover Crops and Programming: Michael Watercutter, American Farmland Trust / Mercer Landmark
3:40 Cover crop selection, management, and adding soil carbon: Cody Beacom, Bird Agronomics
4:10 Q&A: Michael Watercutter and Cody Beacom
4:30 Adjourn

Mitchell Hora, Continuum Ag
Mitchell is a 7th-generation Iowa farmer and the Founder/CEO of Continuum Ag, a soil health data intelligence company.Continuum works with enterprise level partners to help them implement regenerative ag practices throughout their supply chain or portfolio. Via the expansion of their TopSoil Tool, the group has amassed a footprint of 42 states and 20 countries and now houses the largest, private soil health database. For his efforts, Mitchell has been named to the AgGrad 30 Under 30 list and to the Forbes Under 30 list.

Ryan Bergman, The Dannon Company North America
Ryan is the Director of milk farming & sustainability where he is responsible for coordinating the upstream value chain of milk production related to the Dannon pledge. He engages with partners to develop appropriate agronomic strategy fitting each milk region. He also develops and advises crop growers on all sustainable agricultural practices: from crop rotation, crop types, fertilizer, and pesticide usage to any other agronomic topics. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio State University’s Agriculture Technical Institute.

Marlene Eick, Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association
As Director of marketing & communications, Marlene is responsible for leading the development and execution of annual communications and marketing plans and initiatives for Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association, the Ohio Corn Checkoff and the Ohio Small Grains Checkoff. She serves as an industry spokesperson and media liaison throughout Ohio and the U.S. Eick brings diverse integrated communications experience with a background in education, multimedia communication, and most recently, leadership and professional development training for local, state, and national
organizations in agriculture.

Michael Watercutter, American Farmland Trust
Michael has worked in sustainable agriculture for over a decade, starting shortly after graduating from Ohio State University with a degree in agronomy. In April of 2022, he was hired as a full-time conservation agronomist in partnership with American Farmland Trust (AFT) and Mercer Landmark to help increase awareness, education, and adoption of conservation practices in west central Ohio. Having grown up on a family farm, he is uniquely capable of both explaining the innovative conservation practices he advocates for and showing the associated positive impacts through his own farm.

Cody Beacom, Bird Agronomics
In 2012, Cody Beacom began working for Bird Agronomics. He brings many diverse agronomic and conservation related experiences, many gained thru employment for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at numerous locations across Ohio. He was also a partner in a successful hay and straw business for 10 years. These experiences helped develop his keen interest in conservation and soil health. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University and is also a Firefighter/Paramedic in Columbus, Ohio.

Amphibian Exploration at Oberlin Preserve
2024-03-24 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Oberlin Preserve, 425 W. Hamilton Street, Oberlin, OH, 44074, United States
Join us as we visit the spring ponds of our Oberlin Preserve. These pools fill with water each spring and typically dry out by summer. They are very important in the life cycle of many animals. We’ll dip our aquatic nets into the water and have close-up looks at their resident critters, such as frogs, salamanders, snakes, and many teeny tiny aquatic species.
We also plan to tour you on our newly installed boardwalk which will lead you into the center of the rich, wet woods of our Oberlin Preserve.

Vibrant Places: Waterfowl at Grand Valley Ranch
2024-03-22 08:30 - 10:30 UTC | Grand Valley Ranch, 10198 Penniman Road, Orwell, OH, 44076, United States
Some say the American Robin is the harbinger of spring, but the swans, ducks, geese, and shorebirds might disagree. The Land Conservancy has partnered with Greater Cleveland Audubon to host a morning of birding just as waterfowl are making their strongest push north through Ohio and shorebirds are beginning to pass our way. If conditions are right, we could see up to 29 species of waterfowl, including three swans.
The Land Conservancy’s Grand Valley Ranch protects 1,200 acres of ideal habitat for waterfowl and various waterbirds. Permanently conserved in 2015, the Land Conservancy has restored the site from historical high-impact uses (agriculture, mining, and aquaculture) to a natural, 3-mile long, flow-through wetland complex. Utilizing funds from Clean Ohio, USFWS, and the Ohio EPA, $3.5M was invested in the property to restore this ancient Tamarack Swamp.

Zoom into Nature: Camouflage and Mimicry
2024-03-19 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Join us virtually for the presentation Hiding in Plain Sight: Amazing Camouflage, Mimicry & Evasion in Nature with Judy Semroc. This program will present and discuss examples of how animals and plants mislead and deceive in order to survive in nature. Revealing patterns, coloration, behavior, and much more will attest to the astounding world of Nature! Be prepared to test your observational skills!

Inviting Biodiversity into Our Gardens and Beyond
2024-03-14 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Detroit)
Inviting Biodiversity into Our Gardens and Beyond continues next week with Session 3: Native Plant Connections. Join us virtually on March 14 as we dive into the colorful world of Heteroptera with Angella Moorehouse, author of Flower Bugs: A Guide to Flower-Associated True Bugs of the Midwest, followed by a program with Trevor Smith on what gardeners can do about climate change in their own backyard.
Register for Session 2 Now!
If you missed our session on February 29, please visit our YouTube Channel to watch the recording of Session 2.
Inviting Biodiversity into Our Gardens and Beyond is a virtual symposium brought to you by Cleveland Pollinator and Native Plant Symposium, Nature Spark, and Western Reserve Land Conservancy.

Bee School
2024-03-09 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Kirkmont Center, 6946 County Road 10, Zanesfield, OH, 43360, United States
Please join Apiarist Dwight Wells for Bee School!
The topics we’ll cover include:

Biology of honey bees
Queen, Drone, Worker
Mating of queens and drones
Timeline of worker responsibilities
Swarm trapping feral honeybees
Management of frame foundation
Time for Question & Answer

Saturday March 9, 2024 from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Field Exploration: Maple Syrup
2024-03-03 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Messenger Centry Farm, 17098 Messenger Road, Chagrin Falls, OH, 44023, United States
Join us at Messenger Century Farm for a sugary sweet Sunday afternoon. Ever wonder how the sap from maple trees turns into liquid gold? We’ll learn all about the maple syrup process. Plan for a 1-mile round trip walk as we visit the tapped trees in the sugarbush and follow the sap as it travels through tubes back to the sugarhouse for boiling and processing. Participants will have opportunities to sample the many ways you can use maple syrup in the kitchen with a variety of savor and sweet maple-inspired treats.

Common Ground
2024-03-02 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | The Victor Paul Wierwille Word Over the World Auditorium, 19100 East Shelby Road, New Knoxville, OH, 45871, United States
The Way International™ in New Knoxville, OH is hosting a free showing of Common Ground at 6 PM on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Admission is open to the general public, and refreshments will be served.

The film explores how Americans from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different parts of the country share one thing in common – the very soil beneath our feet. This hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” explores how to bring entire ecosystems back to life and unlock more (and healthier, more nutrient-dense) food to feed America and the world, while simultaneously restoring the natural cycles that regulate weather and climate. Investigating “regenerative” farming systems on both large to small-scale farms, the movie cast includes: Laura Dern, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mamoa, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, and Donald Glover.

After the film, farmer and rancher Dr. Allen Williams will discuss the film and the regenerative agriculture movement planting across the country. Allen is the founding partner of Grass Fed Insights, Understanding Ag, and Soil Health Academy.

The Victor Paul Wierwille Word Over the World Auditorium is located at 19100 East Shelby Road in New Knoxville, and a movie trailer and more information is available at: https://events.theway.org/commonground

Art Show with Susan Onysko
2024-02-26 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s Harmony Hall, 3850 Chagrin River Road, Moreland, un, 44022, United States
Embark on a photographic journey of African wildlife with renowned artist, Susan Onysko. Susan is a travel photographer who has devoted the last decade to the art of capturing evocative stories from some of the most remote and extreme locations of our world. In places like Bhutan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Morocco, Patagonia, Death Valley, Alaska, Cuba, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Antarctica, Tibet, Scotland, The Galapagos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Turkey, Susan has an eye for unexpected images that evoke that locale’s purest essence. Because she quietly positions herself to convey a relatable moment that unites us in our similarities, her well-rounded, professional work has garnered numerous awards and exhibits and has been featured in Popular Photography Magazine and Photo District News.

On display until April 1st. Open to the public from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday

Nurturing our Conservation Land Ethic
2024-02-07 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s Harmony Hall, 3850 Chagrin River Road, Moreland, un, 44022, United States
Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00 PM
Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s Harmony Hall
3850 Chagrin River Road
Moreland Hills, OH 44022
Join us for an in-person gathering to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s book A Sand County Almanac. We will welcome Buddy Huffaker, the Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, to our Conservation Center in Moreland Hills for his presentation Aldo Leopold, the Land Ethic, and A Sand County Almanac: The Making of an American Classic. Mr. Huffaker will discuss Aldo Leopold’s most famous book and his appeal for us to develop a strong conservation land ethic. The presentation will be followed by a reception with Mr. Huffaker, as well as a conservation book fair coordinated by Loganberry Books. Copies of A Sand County Almanac, as well as many other titles will be available for purchase.
While Aldo Leopold’s impact on the conservation movement is broad and deep, he is mostly known as the author of the now classic A Sand County Almanac. Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2024, A Sand County Almanac has been translated into sixteen languages and serves as one of the foundational texts for anyone that cares about people and places. But becoming a classic doesn’t happen overnight, it requires great writing, and often a few twists of fate. Buddy will provide a quick biographical sketch of Aldo Leopold and then focus on the people and events that have kept A Sand County Almanac and the call for a Land Ethic as relevant as ever.
Special thanks to Tom and Kathy Leiden for sponsoring this program. The Leidens are devoted supporters of conservation and understand the importance of protecting diverse, balanced ecosystem for the survival of all plants and animals. We are proud to partner with them to bring Mr. Huffaker to Northeast Ohio.
Buddy Huffaker joined the Aldo Leopold Foundation in 1996 as a seasonal intern and has served as Executive Director since 1999. During his tenure the foundation has grown the Leopold Community by protecting the Leopold Shack & Farm (the inspiration and setting for much of the classic A Sand County Almanac) as a National Historic Landmark, constructing the LEED Platinum Aldo Leopold Legacy Center out of trees planted by the Leopold family, producing the Emmy Award winning documentary GreenFire, and supporting ten different foreign translations of A Sand County Almanac. The foundation continues the Leopold family’s commitment to stewardship through the restoration and management of the 4,400-acre Leopold-Pines Conservation Area and by using this experience to inform and inspire other landowners to adopt and implement their own land ethic. Buddy’s leadership in the conservation movement includes service on state and federal advisory committees and participation in three White House Conferences on conservation and environmental education.
