Maintaining healthy and productive soil is essential for growing healthy plants. Soil tests provide more helpful information on soils than any other resource. It is an inexpensive way to maintain good plant health in urban forests, landscapes, and lawns, and to maximize the productivity of nurseries, vegetable gardens, and fruit crops.
Oaks are important for so many reasons. They are well adapted to Southeast Ohio growing conditions and are long-lived trees that provide stability to our woodlands, in addition to their many other benefits:
“A brand is any distinctive feature like a name, term, design, or symbol that identifies goods or services” (American Marketing Association, 2025). Businesses use brand marketing to create a unique identity and build connections with customers to increase sales, customer loyalty, and the overall value of the brand (American Marketing Association, 2025; Keller, 2003).
Many managers struggle to delegate because they believe no one can do the job as well as they can. While that may be true—at least for certain activities and tasks—what we can accomplish as individuals is finite. And managers may be just a bit biased when it comes to the quality of their work.
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.), or sunchoke, is a resilient, low-input crop with potential for biomass and tuber production. However, a comprehensive understanding of varietal performance in specific environments like Ohio is essential to unlock its full agricultural potential. This 2024 study evaluated the growth and yield performance of five sunchoke varieties in Ohio:
Fruit leathers are easy to make and are enjoyed by many people. They can be healthy snacks and are a great way to use overripe fruit. You can start with simple fruit leathers or experiment with different flavor combinations.
Quick-process pickles differ from fermented pickles because the pickling process uses acetic acid from vinegar rather than lactic acid from fermentation. Quick-process pickles are ideal for those who want to make pickles, start to finish, in a few days. However, the flavor of fresh-pack or quick-process pickles is better if they are left to stand for several weeks after proper processing.
Bird flu is an infectious disease caused by the avian influenza A virus. It is known to primarily affect birds and dairy cows. The current bird flu outbreak began in February 2024 and continues to severely impact the U. S. poultry and dairy cattle industries (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2025a). Occasionally, the avian influenza A virus can spread to humans, leading to serious-to-fatal illness (CDC, 2025b).
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is an arboviral disease (arthropod-borne virus) found in the eastern United States. It is vectored by mosquitoes and is found in swampy coastal areas along the Atlantic seaboard, states bordering Lake Michigan, red maple swamps in the northern Atlantic states and in the southern and Gulf areas associated with cedar forests, salt-water marshes, and loblolly pines (Armstrong & Andreadis, 2002; Greenlee, 2014).
