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The Sustainable Shepherd
ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Pull into County Ridge Farm and see pastures brimming with thick, green forage. Watch sheep lazily chew their cud while tiny balls of woolly fuzz nurse under their bellies.
Quarry Hill Orchards: A connection that grows on trees
‘Straight from my hand to their mouth,’ says fruit grower Bill Gammie. Quarry Hill Orchards fosters a connection between the fruit they grow and the consumers who love it.
Grazing native grasses could benefit your cattle and wildlife
Native grasses provide cover for wildlife, excellent brood rearing habitat for grassland nesting and upland game birds and lots of forage for wildlife.
Jentes brothers recognized for conservation
These two Wayne County farmers operate grain and dairy farms, with the goal of taking care of the land and their families.
Remember to educate yourself, and your friends, about farming
As producers, we have many opportunities to share and educate.
Anyone remember cyclone seeders? The early years of drills and related planting equipment
When I was a kid, my father’s crop rotation was corn, oats, wheat and hay. The wheat was planted in the fall after the oats stubble was plowed and, in order to have a crop of hay in the year following the wheat, grass seed had to be sown either with the wheat, or the
From tea bags to Miatas, bioplastics on the rise
Bioplastics are made wholly or in part from renewable biomass sources such as sugarcane and corn, or from the digest of microbes such as yeast.
Meat goats are farm’s secret ingredient
An Ohio goat herder has turned a farmstead’s need into a money-making venture.
Portraits in Progress: Don’t look back: Maize Valley Farms taps into consumer market
The same innovative thinking that led Kay Vaughan into full-time farming and then into a diversified agribusiness is leading the family into the retail farm market business in a big way in 2001.
Readers respond to past columns
Twice a year readers who write, telephone or send drone aircraft to my office take over this space to air their gripes, grievances and gratitude. As in the past, gracious letters outnumber the ones soaked in jalapeno sauce. Unlike the past, however, this year’s peppery correspondence contains record levels of heat. A mid-May email from
