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Veto squabbles make controversial Pa. farm bill’s future uncertain
Aside from the veto controversy, the bill also created a stir in the agricultural and environmental communities.
Give me that merit badge, give me that badge
If I have learned anything from my years as a Scout Parent — first with Cub Scouts (cute) and then Boy Scouts (cute, but gangly and sometimes smell funny) — it is that all the wrong people are earning badges around here. If you are a scout parent you soon learn that the boys earn
Native American dolls teach children
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes of the attraction to curious features on Native American dolls.
Without a blacksmith, there wasn’t a town
Paul Locher explains that the single most important craftsman that was needed to get an 1800s frontier town going and make it thrive was a blacksmith.
Western Pennsylvania pasture walk shows lessons learned through grazing
Big Tom Perkins showed off some of his mistakes and some of his victories during a pasture walk at his farm, Con-o-Creek Farm, in Beaver County, Aug. 23.
City farming for country folks
Urban farms are filling vacant lots, growing as rooftop gardens, and sprouting in streetside flowerboxes. Creative and resourceful city farming methods put-to-use in the country can increase farm yields, productivity and profit. Urban farming techniques can help country farmers optimize space, micromanage renewable resources, and market products direct.
Maple madness time in Ohio
Geauga County – March 10, 17, 24 and April 7, 14, 21, noon to 4 p.m., Geauga County Maple Festival Sugarhouse, south end of Historic Chardon Square, Route 6 and Route 44, Chardon City. Enjoy fresh maple stirs for $1 and other maple treats in working sugarhouse. – Richards Maple Products, 545 Water St., Route
Ford redefines ‘bumper crop’
About 120 million pounds of damaged vehicle parts have been processed through the Ford Core Recovery Program since its inception.
Horse-powered equipment makes lots of progress
Nancy and I just got back from Lancaster County, Pa., where I attended the 18th annual Horse Progress Days. This was the 16th consecutive year for me at the show, and the 2011 offering was as different as night and day from those early exhibitions back in the 1990s. Horse decline The use of horses
Ohio firm gets USDA biomass grant
WASHINGTON — Marginal or abandoned crop ground in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania may find new life in a new crop.
