Farmscape Ecology Program has made past presentations available for your viewing and listening pleasure. To keep up-to-date with future Farmscape events, check out their calendar of events and sign up for the Farmscape Ecology Program or Hawthorne Valley News & Events newsletters here.
Ancient Forest Project Presentation
On March 13th, Kyle, Laura, and Josie presented the preliminary results from the 2024 pilot study in person and on Zoom and gave a first look at the in-progress “Map of Potential Ancient Forests of Columbia County.” Below is a link to the recording of the talk and a PDF of the presentation slides. Take a look for background on what ancient forests are, what the Ancient Forest Project entails, and our plans for continuing this work into the future! Watch the talk here.
Discovery of 200-year-old NY State Climate Records
Conrad and Anna presented in a Morning Coffee Webinar hosted by Partners for Climate Action where they discussed a groundbreaking historical meteorological and phenological citizen science network throughout NY state from the 1800s. Other presenters included Kerissa Fuccillo Battle, the Founding Director of Community Greenways Collaborative, Jeff Freedman from the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany (SUNY), and Anton Seimon from Bard College. Watch the talk here.
Farming, Ecology and Landscape Recovery in the Brecklands of Eastern England
The Farmer-Ecologist Research Circle, an initiative of the Hudson Valley Farm Hub and the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, sponsored a public presentation by their visitors from England, farmer Richard Evans and ornithologist Chris Sharpe. The presentation was hosted by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. Together, they toured 14 farms in the Hudson Valley and beyond, to learn about different approaches to farming and the interaction between farming and nature. The culmination of the visit was a public presentation by Richard Evans and Chris Sharpe on "Farming, Ecology and Landscape Recovery in the Brecklands of Eastern England" hosted by Bard College on March 1st, which was recorded and can be viewed here.
