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Frostburg State University is Proud to be hosting the Ethnobotany of Mountain Cultures Symposium and the 53rd Anuual Meeting of The Society for Economic Botany June 3rd-7th, 2012. More Information Here!

April 18th: ACES and Ethnobotany students partcipate in Focus Frostburg!

2pm – 2:50pm: Economic Botany Presentations

Sunshine Brosi and students, FSU Dept. of Ethnobotany *This double-session runs one hour and 50 minutes.

2-2:25: Students Feature results from a survey of small, privately-owned commercial farms in the 3 counties of Western MD and consumers in the same three counties.

2:25-2:50: Students repost on sustainability. The purpose of this project is to determine faculty/staff/student perceptions of sustainability initiative at Frostburg State University.

3pm – 3:50pm Economic Botany Presentations

Sunshine Brosi and students, FSU Dept. of Ethnobotany Part 2 in a double session

3-3:25 As part of the sustainability initiatives at FSU, the Campus Tree Advisory Committee (CTAC) is working to become officially recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus USA. Recently, CTAC hosted Frostburg's first official Arbor Day celebration and is currently developing community outreach projects to continue enhancement of the campus tree canopy. Come engage with students active in this project.

3:25-3:50 Weeds! Come learn about a student survey and perspectives on weeds.

4pm – 4:50pm ACES presentation: Sustainability in the AmazonMimi Hernandez, Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies

This presentation highlights a recent trip to Equador, where Hernandez experienced first-hand the threat widespread mining operations pose to traditional culture and environmental sustainability.

Time TBA: Frostburg Grow: Grow it Local Greenhouse Project

Mimi Hernandez, Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies

The project will convert unused mined land into a five acre greenhouse complex designed to train community members for high quality jobs while producing local food and tree seedlings to be used in restoration projects throughout the region. Learn about environmental, social and economic benefits for our community and how you can get involved.

PAST EVENTS BELOW:

West Virginia Mountain Roots Series!

Sponsored by ACES, WV Society of American Foresters, WV Woodland Stewards, and WVU Extension Services. Over 600 participants in 13 WV counties came out to discover the lore, tradition, and science behind the ethnobotanical uses of Appalachia's most popular native roots in the workshop presented by ACES coordinator Mimi Hernandez.

"To be honest, I've done a lot of programs in my 16 years of extension, and this is about one of the biggest crowds I've ever had," said David Richmond, Raleigh County WVU Extension agent in reference to the Mountain Roots workshop in his area that drew over 75 community members. "Every time I teach this, especially in West Virginia, inevitably, after a class, I have older folks coming up and telling me what their grandma used to give them. I learn just as much from them as they learn from me," Hernandez said. "I think that's a part of reclaiming this lost tradition that has kind of skipped a generation or two along the way. I think people are feeling disconnected, and they're wanting to reconnect."

More Information

See ACES featured in the Organizational Spotlight in the West Virginia WV Forest Stewardship Quarterly Publication

Economic Botany Students Install Children's Garden

Economic Botany students Chris Massimino and Morgan Bauer construct the children's garden. Photo by Susan Snow

A children's community garden is being built behind to the University Children's Center on Frostburg State University's campus and will provide children with hands on interaction with the environment. The garden is raised in the form of a compass to encourage activities for the children. Vegetables will be planted including carrots, radishes, peppers, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and snap peas. Children will plant seeds and plantings from the FSU greenhouse will be transplanted. The garden is open to children of the local community to increase and diversify their education concerning growing food. Given the name, "The University Compass: A Garden for Children", the garden aspires to illustrate the Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies interest in children's gardening.

Children and FSU students participated in a planting event on Thursday May 5^th, 2011. See photo in the Cumberland Times-News!

Max Dubanski, mushroom enthusiast from Backbone Farm gives a shitake mushroom cultivation workshop

Appalachian Residents Learn About Forest Products at the "Know Your Woods; Grow Your Goods" Event.

"What a wonderful day! It was great to make so many contacts and future plans to get together to share land and time with other like minded folks. Everything yesterday was perfect; a laid back day, where we could talk and share....and good info. Thanks again!!" - Amy Shuman

Participants engaged in a full day event at the Savage River Lodge in Frostburg, Maryland where they discovered (and ate!) wild edibles, learned the ropes of maple syrup production, and inoculated their own logs with shitake mushroom spawn. Shitake mushrooms are medicinal and gourmet culinary mushrooms that can be grown on select logs. The event was sponsored by Frostburg State University, ACES, and Allegheny Mountain Naturally, a regional directory promoting nature based business in the Allegheny region of the Appalachians

ACES participates in the following events! Come visit us!

Bethesda Green Internship Fair

Go Green Frederick

October 21-23 American Herbalists Guild Symposium