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How to store homegrown onions
Onions are one of the first crops gardeners get in the ground in spring. By late summer, green tops turn brown and flop over, signaling it’s time to harvest. There is nothing worse than waiting all summer for your homegrown onions to mature, then discovering they spoil in storage. Selecting onion varieties well-suited for storage
At the top of one pinnacle, looking toward the next
As her youngest child enters the second semester of senior year, Kymberly Foster Seabolt looks back with fondness and forward with anticipation.
Buying local, pushed in 1924
It’s a shame that far too many years passed in which not enough thought was given to the importance of buying locally.
Food Corps names 10 states as project launch partners
NEW YORK CITY — FoodCorps, a new national AmeriCorps school garden and Farm to School service program, announced the states and partners it will collaborate with to launch the initiative in 2011. Mission FoodCorps will serve vulnerable children, improving access to healthy, affordable food, while training young leaders for careers in food and agriculture. In
Back to the future: An adventure in fifth grade
You know that nightmare we’ve all had where you suddenly find yourself back in school? Perhaps something has happened and it has come to light that you never actually graduated and *poof* there you are, back in class? That’s the one where you wake up in a cold sweat and the only way it could
Pioneer opens new corn research center in Urbana
(Farm and Dairy was informed June 12 that Pioneer plans to close the recently opened Urbana research location. This announcement was made post-press. The company is working to offer other positions to employees and keep its seed research in-state. The company states: “Through a process of review, Pioneer will further align talent and technology with
Planting a new crop: Ag educator rebuilds FFA program, wins national award for efforts
SMITHVILLE, Ohio — Learning the steps to the scientific method — predictions and tests and controls and formulating hypotheses — can be downright complicated and boring. But not in Tony Stoller’s classroom. In the agriscience lab at Smithville High School, the educator walks his students through the process one step at a time as they
Maple syrup brings lessons needed
Native Americans are credited with originating the making of maple syrup, which was then shared and passed down to the delight of anyone who has ever been a part of the process. Learning life skills A woman I work with told me that when her older brother was in elementary school, an annual tradition was
Apply for the 2023 Homer Unkefer Agriculture Scholarship
Consumers National Bank’s Homer Unkefer Agriculture Scholarship is now available for students pursuing secondary education in an agricultural-related field.
Summer: Time to stop and smell the roses
Columnist Judith Sutherland appreciates the joys of summer – especially its glorious middle.
