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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Eating (Low-fat, High-carb) (Gag) Slugs (for the Week of May 11, 2008)
May 11, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: What eats slugs? Do you eat slugs? I don't eat slugs. A. Eating slugs? The thought makes most of the humans I know gag. But actually there are recipes. I found one, for instance, for, yum, slug fritters. And check this out ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Food Trash and Climate Change, or Don't Flump Muffin Stumps in Dumps (for the Week of June 15, 2008)
June 13, 2008 Q. Dear Twig: Where do the burnt black French fries that I throw out at a restaurant go? A. Probably into a hole in the ground. Here's their trip, in a nutshell: The trash in the can gets dumped with a flump in the back end of a garbage ...
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Ohio State Faculty Member Honored as Fellow of Food Systems Leadership Institute
February 20, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- An Ohio State University professor was one of 20 fellows of the Food Systems Leadership Institute honored at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) in Chica ...
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Resources for 2009 H1N1 Information
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/resources-2009-h1n1-information
April 30, 2009 It can be hard to sort through all the information about the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak, also called the "swine flu." Here are some reliable resources from Ohio State University Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Developmen ...
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Sept. 2 OSU Organic Farming Field Day: Grains, Vegetables, Eco Design
August 18, 2010 WOOSTER, Ohio — A free public program on Thursday, Sept. 2, will feature Ohio State University's latest research on organic farming. The Organic Food and Farming Education and Research (OFFER) Program Field Day takes place from 1-5 ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: 'Rik!' Sting! Yow! (for the Week of July 22, 2007)
July 19, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: You said some fish make sounds. Well, last night my dad took me fishing. I caught a bullhead catfish. And you know what it did? It made sounds! "Rik-rik-rik!" Like that! A. Bullhead catfish indeed can make sounds. And ...
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Chow Line: Whole grain products on the rise (for 3/16/08)
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-whole-grain-products-rise-31608-0
March 6, 2008 I read that only 7 percent of Americans eat three servings of whole grains a day. Is that accurate? That's actually a more difficult question to answer than you might think. A November 2007 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Whole Lot of Nurdles Going On (for the Week of May 17, 2009)
May 17, 2009 Q. Dear Twig: Why are we talking about nurdles? A. Well, sometimes we spill them. Q. And? A. Well, there's a lot of them. Factories make something like 250 billion pounds of nurdles a year. (Remember, nurdles are plastic pellets. They ...
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OARDC Farmer's Market Is Today (8/18)
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/oardc-farmers-market-today-818-0
August 18, 2010 WOOSTER, Ohio — The OARDC Mid-week Farmer's Market takes place today (8/18) from 3-6 p.m. in the Fisher Auditorium parking lot at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), 1680 Madison Ave. Fresh local produce, ba ...
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2012 Total records: 7007 Total hours (volunteer and advanced training): 27,658.6 Total volunteer records: 5527 Total volunteer hours: 21,128.3 Total advanced training records: 1,480 Total advanced training hours: 6,530.3 Total volunteers reporting: 358 T ...