All About Ecology
On August 10, 2022 the Farm Hub’s Applied Farmscape Ecology Research Collaborative hosted a Farmscape Ecology Field Day. The event highlighted research projects being conducted at the Farm Hub from water sampling and bird habitats to the Native Meadow Trial.
Anne Bloomfield is the Program Manager of the Applied Farmscape Ecology Program at the Farm Hub.
Anne Bloomfield, the Applied Farmscape Ecology Program Manager, showed attendees how to identify various bird species on the farm.
Binoculars
Cutouts of birds serve as target practice for attendees with binoculars.
Carmen Greenwood is an Associate Professor at SUNY Cobleskill.
This water sample contains many living organisms.
Carmen Greenwood and Alyssa Hotchkiss, a student at SUNY Cobleskill, presented on beneficial sects within the soil.
Claudia Knab-Vispo is a field botanist with the Farmscape Ecology Program at Hawthorne Valley Farm
Claudia Knab-Vispo of the Farmscape Ecology Program at Hawthorne Valley Farm shared the details of seed mixes of grasses and flowers that make up the Native Meadow Trial.
Some of the plant species found in the Native Meadow Trial.
Conrad Vispo is a Conrad Vispo is a widlife ecologist at the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program.
Conrad Vispo of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program presented on the connection between insects, native meadows and agriculture.
Conrad Vispo demonstrates insect collection.
Erik Kiviat is the director of Hudsonia.
Erik Kiviat and Jason Tesauro of Hudsonia discussed their research on Wood turtles.
A Wood Turtle
A Wood Turtle
Shafiul Chowdury and Don Hodder of SUNY New Paltz
Shafiul Chowdhury shared the latest on water testing as connected with soil health and biodiversity.
Devices that Shafiul Chowdbury uses to sample water.
Will Yandik, a fourth-generation farmer at Green Acres Farm.
Will Yandik shared findings from his research on cover crops as habitats for winter birds.
Grassland birds on display for education and learning. These birds were on loan from Columbia-Greene Community College.
