News https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/newsreleases/2009/060309_glossary.html en Organic Pioneer John Reganold presents 2024 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, March 18 https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/organic-pioneer-john-reganold-presents-2024-shivvers-memorial-lecture-march-18 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Award-winning researcher, educator and author John Reganold, Regents Professor of Soil Science and Agroecology at the Washington State University, will present the 2024 Shivvers Lecture on March 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 2226 <a href="https://www.fpm.iastate.edu/maps/buildings/building.asp?id=14">Bessey Hall</a>, 2200 Osborn Drive, on the Iowa State University campus.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/calendar/shivvers">Shivvers Memorial Lecture</a>—focused on issues of sustainability, agriculture and the food system—has been presented by the LCSA at Iowa State University since 1969 in honor of John Shivvers, who farmed near Knoxville, Iowa, with support from the Shivvers Family.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:57:13 +0000 ayr 13532 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture annual report reviews contributions in 2022 https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/leopold-center-sustainable-agriculture-annual-report-reviews-contributions-2022 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s invites you to review its new <a href="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/page/files/leopoldcenterannualreport_final_2022.pdf">2022 annual report</a>, available online.&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:07:48 +0000 ayr 13530 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture invites 2023 Spencer Award nominations https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/leopold-center-sustainable-agriculture-invites-2023-spencer-award-nominations <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>AMES, Iowa — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture requests nominations for the 2023 Spencer Award, which honors deserving Iowans working for a more environmentally sound agriculture. Nominations for the award are due by Aug. 25, 2023.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:01:20 +0000 ayr 13529 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Mini-forest author to present 2023 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, April 6 https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/mini-forest-author-present-2023-shivvers-memorial-lecture-april-6 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="" src="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/resize/news/images/hannah-lewis-450x600-150x200.jpeg" style="float:left; height:200px; width:150px" width="150" height="200" />AMES, Iowa — Author Hannah Lewis will present the 2023 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, Thursday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m., in the Iowa State University Memorial Union, room 3580. The event is free and open to the public.</p> <p>Lewis, an Iowa State alumna, is the author of “<a href="https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/mini-forest-revolution/?sscid=31k7_v93c0">Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World</a>.” The 2022 book, with a foreword by well-known environmentalist Paul Hawken, promotes an international movement to restore biodiversity by transforming empty lots, backyards and degraded land into “mini-forests.”</p> <p>View the <a href="https://iastate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10fa875d-3c55-4cd4-85b3-afdd00d83fea">recording from this event</a>.&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:06:24 +0000 ayr 13528 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Annual Ames Reads Leopold event, Sunday, March 19 https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/annual-ames-reads-leopold-event-sunday-march-19 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join friends and neighbors, Sunday, March 19. 1:30-4:00 pm in the Farwell Auditorium at the Ames Public Library or online for this year’s Ames Reads Leopold event, with featured speaker Neil Hamilton, Former Director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center and Professor Emeritus of Law, will be a featured speaker. Additional readers will include local high school and Iowa State University students as well as community members.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:17:15 +0000 ayr 13526 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Virtual Field Day: Establishing Saturated Riparian Forest Buffers https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/virtual-field-day-establishing-saturated-riparian-forest-buffers-0 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A virtual field day will highlight saturated riparian forest buffer research at Iowa State University on Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. CST. The free event will feature a live discussion with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.extension.iastate.edu/ag/billy-beck">Billy Beck</a>, assistant professor and extension forestry specialist,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/people/troy-heeren">Troy Heeren</a>, agricultural specialist,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/people/gabriel-johnson">Gabe Johnson</a>, Ph.D. graduate research assistant in sustainable agriculture and agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Jonathan Notch, forestry undergraduate student.&nbsp;Attendees will have a chance to view the recently established saturated buffer forest buffer site funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Find more details and registration information at:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/virtual-field-day-establishing-saturated-riparian-forest-buffers-landscape">https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/virtual-field-day-establishing-saturated-riparian-forest-buffers-landscape</a>.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:22:58 +0000 ayr 13524 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Leopold Center selects farmer, educator Mark Quee for Spencer Award https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/leopold-center-selects-farmer-educator-mark-quee-spencer-award <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><figure class="image" style="float:right"><img alt="" height="395" src="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/resize/news/images/queeonfarm_rev-250x395.jpg" width="250" /><br /> <figcaption>Mark Quee on the Scattergood School<br /> farm. Photo by Jennie Schmidt.</figcaption><br /> </figure></p></div></div></div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:24:06 +0000 ayr 13520 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Leopold Center releases 2021 annual report https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/leopold-center-releases-2021-annual-report <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>AMES, Iowa — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2021 annual report, released this week, is available online to read or download at: <a href="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/page/files/leopoldannualreport_2021_final_0.pdf">https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/page/files/leopoldannualreport_2021_final.pdf</a>.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:39:34 +0000 ayr 13519 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu Leopold Center calls for Spencer Award nominations https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/leopold-center-calls-spencer-award-nominations <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>AMES, Iowa — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture is pleased to announce a request for nominations for the <strong>Spencer Award</strong>, which honors deserving Iowans working for a more environmentally sound agriculture. &nbsp;The purpose of the Spencer Award is to recognize significant contributions to the advancement of ecological and economic practices&nbsp;that will make agriculture more sustainable and the family farm secure for the future. The Spencer family established the award in 2001 through an endowment, which will provide $2,000 in cash prize funding in 2022.&nbsp;Review the <a href="https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/files/news/files/spencerawardnomination_2022_final.pdf">2022 Spencer Award Nomination Form</a> for additional details.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 11 May 2022 00:18:02 +0000 ayr 13517 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu 2022 Ames Reads Leopold, April 24, at Brookside Park https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/2022-ames-reads-leopold-april-24-brookside-park <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join friends and neighbors at this year’s <strong><em>"Ames Reads Leopold"</em></strong> event on April 24, 2022, from 1:30-3:30 pm starting at the Hickory Shelter in Brookside Park. Take some time from your busy schedule to enjoy a relaxing walk in the park and hear the thought-provoking words of Iowa’s own, Aldo Leopold, renowned conservationist.</p></div></div></div> Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:31:29 +0000 ayr 13516 at https://www.leopold.iastate.edu