Tag: Ohio

  • Ohio Coops Worth 3.7 Billion

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    Farming co-ops aggregate and market farm products, supply members with the fertilizer and other things they need in order to farm, and provide financial services. Local farming co-ops reach into bigger towns, too, by marketing meat, grain, fruits, vegetables, fiber — and even rock salt — produced by or for member farmers to processors, retailers…

  • Seed Grants Available for Co-ops

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    WBEX announces the availability of grants to anyone interested in forming or expanding a co-operative: The Ohio Cooperative Development Center (OCDC) at The Ohio State University South Centers is offering reimbursement seed grants to groups interested in exploring or growing a cooperative. Cooperatives are legal businesses that form when members of the group can do…

  • Life Teems in one of the most isolated places on earth

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    In Popsci, Francie Diep reports on a new study of Lake Vostok – Antartica’s largest sealed lake: For this study, the Ohio biologists examined ice gathered from just underneath Lake Vostok’s glacier, at the lake’s southern edges. Scientists think such ice, called accretion ice, represents water from the surface of the lake that froze to…

  • The Conservation Fund And Its Branches

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    The Conservation Fund has been working with communities, government and business partners to save millions of acres of land and water across the United States.   In the nearly 30 years of their existence, they’ve protected 7 million acres of land and water in all 50 states. In 2001 they founded the Natural Capital Investment…