Articles

Our long-term applied farmscape ecology research at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub is entering its 5th year and there are several ways how you can learn more about it. A 25 minute documentary "Farmscape Ecology" by Jon Bowermaster/Oceans8 gives a beautiful introduction to some of the questions that guide our research, to the physical setting, and some of our colleagues at the Applied Farmscape Ecology Research Collaborative.

We are happy to announce that we plan to guide in-person spring flower walks, again this year. Registration for these small-group events is required and currently we accept only one registration per person. Please click on the respective link in the following list for more info and to register.

The Farmscape team began our “Wonder Wanders” almost a year ago as a way to share the beauty and inspiration found in the natural world during uncertain times.

“Farmscape Ecology”, the movie, is now on-line.

The Flora of Columbia County (Part 1): Introduction and Some Spring-flowering Plant Families is the most recent installment of presentations about the plants and animals that share the landscape with us. Botanist Claudia Knab-Vispo reviews some helpful botanical concepts and then introduces spring-flowering plants of five plant families that are found wild-growing in Columbia County. 

Are you interested in learning more about butterflies in our region, including rare habitat specialist species?

Because we are currently unable to offer any guided ecology walks in person, we are providing some new online resources to help guide your explorations of the natural world in Columbia County during this time of physical distancing.

Well, we've done it again - completed another season of work and decided to write about it.

You can find our 2019 Year in Review (.pdf) here.

Questions welcome!

Newly available aerial images (LiDAR=Light Detection and Ranging), which "look through vegetation" and depict the underlying topography, have opened a new window onto forest history in Columbia County. On this new website, Conrad tells the fascinating story of charcoaling in our forests, shares the location of remotely mapped charcoal pits (much of the mapping was done by Otter Vispo), and invites your participation in verifying the charcoal pits in your neighborhood.