Cover crops prove to be beneficial

PIKETON, Ohio – Cover crops, if planted at the right time and used with the proper crop rotation, can be biomass workhorses.

Lyme disease: Learn this lesson from Janet (or me)

“I was a strong, hardworking woman raising a family, helping my husband with his business, mowing four acres of yard every week, gardening and holding a job. I felt like superwoman. But as time wore on, so did my health.”

— Janet DeCesare,

from Ticked Off

The Thanksgiving feast is entering commerce

Many of the holiday foods most families will enjoy are also growing in significance as U.S. agricultural exports.

Always cows; usually a turkey

On the 100-cow, southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth, two hearty helpings of Holsteins were always on the Thanksgiving Day menu. In between came other entrees — church, usually a turkey, pie, a nap and, often, a pinochle game. The turkey was the “usual” dinner centerpiece, but not always, because I remember one or

A weekly roundup of 4-H news and events for the week of March 13, 2008

EAST CANTON, Ohio — The East Canton Variety 4-H club held a meeting Feb. 10 at St. Paul Church. Members discussed themes being submitted and one fundraiser for the year was planned. Members also agreed to a $100 donation to the Barlow family, who had lost their father. The club was read more letters sent

Neighbor girl brightened my days

The sun was low in the sky, evening coming on, when the buggy arrived. I stepped outside to see who was coming to visit, and it was a happy moment when I realized it was Anna, coming to say hello. As her father visited with my husband, I was so happy to get to talk

September will pack several punches

In the summer’s waning warmth after Labor Day, my mother would order her child army into the big garden of my youth to gather the year’s final flush of vegetables.