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COMMUNITY VOICES
OSU Extension Marion is excited to introduce a new program to Marion County! Community Voices – Leadership for Community Decision Making – emphasizes that many remedies to our county’s problems are within reach. They lie in our community’s greatest resour ...
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COLLECTIVE IMPACT
The challenges facing our local communities today seem almost overwhelming. These problems are too big for any single organization to solve. That is why OSU Extension is proud to have quality partners like you! As partners, we know that there is no single ...
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NUDGE RESEARCH
Cornell University’s Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (BEN) and Feeding America conducted a study that found nudges to increase the likelihood a healthy food item was chosen by guests in a pantry setting by 46 percent. There i ...
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HEAL MAPPS
https://marion.osu.edu/program-areas/4-h-youth-development/fcs-misc/healthy-food-access/heal-mapps
Healthy Eating Active Living: Mapping Attributes using Participatory Photographic Surveys, or HEAL MAPPS TM, is a community-based research process that uses photography, GPS and GIS technology, and residents’ voiced perceptions to address food access, hea ...
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HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS
https://marion.osu.edu/program-areas/4-h-youth-development/fcs-misc/healthy-food-access
When we think about what it takes to live healthy, having easy access to nutritious food is critical. Unfortunately, in Marion County, unhealthy food abounds while affordable, healthy options remain limited. For 17 percent of households, a lack of reliabl ...
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Making Maple Syrup
https://extension.osu.edu/today/making-maple-syrup
Download a transcript of this video (in process) ABOUT THIS EPISODE Did you know Ohio State makes maple syrup?! In a 19-acre woods on the Ohio State Mansfield campus, researchers, Extension specialists, instructors, and others are collecting sap from a va ...
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Extension Today: Home Hydroponics
https://extension.osu.edu/today/home-hydroponics
Download a transcript of this video (in process) ABOUT THIS EPISODE Grow your very own fresh vegies, or herbs, inside this winter? Most definitely! You really can grow fresh vegetables at home while the snow flies outside. It takes a little bit of prepara ...
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Pressure Canner Testing
https://fcs.osu.edu/programs/healthy-people/food-preservation/pressure-canner-testing
Pressure Canner Testing Pressure canner testing will be available in the following counties. Appointments are encouraged. If you do not see your county or a nearby county listed, please request an appointment at go.osu.edu/pressurecannertesting. County P ...
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Livestock Skill-a-thons
https://marion.osu.edu/program-areas/4-h-youth-development/dog-info
LIVESTOCK SKILLATHON This year the skillathons are on three different days. Remember the exhibitor must participate in at least one skillathon to receive their animal premiums. To be eligible for Outstanding Market Exhibitor, the 4-H or FFA member must co ...
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Best Management Practice Field Day
https://extension.osu.edu/events/best-management-practice-field-day
Free, one-day event to learn about phosphorus usage, the environment, and strategies to save on fertilizer. Farmers, other producers, and Extension educators are welcome to attend. There will be presentations with experts, lunch with an economist, poster ...