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  1. Food Preservation: Preserving Food With Less Sugar

    Oct 22, 2024

    Whether by personal choice or due to special dietary needs, many people are looking for ways to reduce their sugar intake.
  2. Food Preservation: Canning Meat, Poultry, and Game

    Oct 22, 2024

    The flavor and texture of the final meat, poultry, or game product depends on how the meat is handled following slaughter. Contact your county Ohio State University Extension educator for information if you slaughter your own meat. Use only meat from healthy, disease-free animals. The meat should be chilled without delay to 40 degrees Fahrenheit or lower to prevent spoilage. To hold longer than a few days, freeze at zero F or lower until canning time.
  3. Controlling Undesirable Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in Your Woodland

    Oct 17, 2024

    Timber stand improvement is the removal or deadening of undesirable trees, shrubs, and vines in a forest stand. It is a major forest management tool to help woodland owners achieve their management objectives. Once ownership objectives are identified, the less desirable trees can be removed to favor the growth of those that better satisfy the owner’s objectives (e.g., quality timber, wildlife habitat, etc.). At the same time, woody plants that pose a threat to human health or safety, such as poison ivy, can be eliminated.
  4. Controlling Non-native Invasive Plants in Ohio’s Forests: Kudzu (Pueraria lobata)

    Oct 17, 2024

    Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is a non-woody, leguminous vine native to Asia. It was introduced to the United States through the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.
  5. X-Disease of Peach, Nectarine, and Cherry

    Oct 16, 2024

    X-disease affects peach, nectarine, sweet cherry, and sour cherry trees in the Great Lakes regions of the United States and Canada. In the Northwestern United States, the disease also occurs on plums. On peach, nectarine, and plum trees the disease is referred to as Peach X-disease. On cherry trees it is called Western X-disease or cherry buckskin. The distribution of these diseases mirror that of the wild chokecherry, which serves as a major reservoir for the pathogen.
  6. Fertilizer and Manure Regulations in the Lake Erie Western Basin Watershed

    Oct 9, 2024

    Ohio law restricts the surface application of manure and fertilizers containing nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the Western Lake Erie Basin under certain soil and weather conditions. Applicators within the Western Basin of Lake Erie need to comply with the regulations or they may face civil penalties.
  7. Pesticide Use in Schools

    Oct 8, 2024

    Ohio has legal requirements under Ohio Administrative Code Rule 901:5-11-15 that govern the application of pesticides inside K–12 school classroom buildings. Pesticide applicators are required to follow all federal and state pesticide laws, but this factsheet focuses on Rule 15.
  8. Food Preservation: Basics for Canning Vegetables

    Sep 26, 2024

    Preserving food yourself provides an abundant supply of a variety of foods when fresh products are not readily available. It also allows you to enjoy the bounty of fresh summer produce all year.
  9. Growing Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) in Ohio

    Sep 23, 2024

    Aronia berry (Aronia melanocarpa) is also known as black chokeberry and is native to the United States (Figure 1).
  10. The Basics of Grant Writing: Becoming Grant Ready

    Sep 20, 2024

    To take the mystery out of the task of grant writing, this fact sheet provides an overview of the basic processes necessary for a typical grant. Funding is available through grants from various sources, including public and private local, regional, state, and federal sources. A grant is funding that does not need to be repaid. Often, grant funders may also require local matching funds to show that the entity or community applying has local buy-in to the programs or services.

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