2025 Southern Ohio Forest Farming Conference
United Plant Savers 35703 Loop Rd, RutlandThe 2025 Southern Ohio Forest Farming Conference is an immersive, weekend-long gathering that brings together new and experienced forest farmers, professionals, and natural products entrepreneurs from across the region. Participants will explore forest farming topics including growing, conserving, harvesting, and marketing a wide range of species such as mushrooms, goldenseal, and elderberry. The event will also focus on small business development, marketing, value-added strategies, and looking at agritourism as a way to diversify income and engage the public with forest-based enterprises. Experience hands-on learning, inspiring speakers, and networking opportunities in the heart of Appalachian Ohio. Whether you're just starting out or scaling up, this conference will equip you with the tools, connections, and knowledge to grow sustainably. Learn more and register at the link below.
Film Screening: How to Poison a Planet, featuring a Q&A with Rob Bilott
Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater 1739 N High St, ColumbusJoin The Ohio State University's Environmental Professionals Network for a free film screening of How to Poison a Planet, a new documentary about PFAS contamination across the water's world systems, including here in the U.S. The event will feature a Q&A with the environmental attorney who was the inspiration behind the film Dark Waters, Rob Bilott. The film screening is free, but registration is required. Agenda: 5:00 p.m. Doors open at U.S. Bank Conference Theater at the Ohio Union. Snacks and refreshments are served. 6:15 p.m. Welcome remarks provided by Dean Kathy Seward Northern, JD, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Professional Identity & Jones Day/Robert M. Duncan Designated Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. 6:20 p.m. Screening of Revealed: How to Poison a Planet (1hr 35min showtime; IMDb link). 7:55 p.m. David Hanselmann, Member, Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and original Founder and Coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) at Ohio State, provides brief reactionary remarks to the film and introduces the panel. 8:00 p.m.?Fireside discussion, featuring documentary cast member and inspirational environmental attorney Rob Bilott, JD, Taft Law Firm; Author, Exposure and Juliana Huizenga, PhD, senior environmental engineer at Cyclopure. Conversation moderated by Callia Téllez, 2L Student, Ohio State, Moritz College of Law. 8:35 p.m.?Audience Q&A with Bilott, Huizenga, and Téllez. 9:00 p.m. Event concludes.