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SWCD educates adults and children

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) can offer more than just technical assistance to the public. Many of Ohio’s Soil and Water Conservation Districts employ education specialists as part of the staff. These folks are specialists in the field of natural resource education. On behalf of the districts, they go out into the community and

Good friends make for good times

Thursday, March 25, 2010

I went home from school one day, itching to tell everyone about my new friend. I was in second grade, and had spent recess playing with a tiny pixie of a girl named Kathy Somerlade. My only complaint about my new friend was that she was far too tiny to be a good teeter-totter partner.

The time to plant may be now

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The time to plant may be now. With weather like we are having, you may think this is a crazy statement, but it is time to sow seed in our pasture and hay fields. Frost seeding There is a method called “frost seeding” where you apply seed to the ground and the freezing and thawing

Life, death and to bee or not to bee

Thursday, June 25, 2009

One of the many charming aspects of living in an old house is that you are never truly alone. Never alone Oh sure, I might be the only HUMAN at home, the dogs outside and the cat ignoring me, but I have the sense that I am never really without companions. Once or twice a

Workout? How about a nap out instead?

Thursday, May 7, 2009

I want to be physically fit. I really do. It’s just that it takes so much time. And effort. And commitment. There is only so much time in the day, after all, and I have to pencil in parenting, cooking, cleaning, laundry, running errands and the like. That barely leaves any time at all to

Book stirs up memories of canal days

Thursday, April 16, 2009

If you’re not from the tri-county — Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana — area, you might not find this column of interest. On the other hand, if you have a hankering to know what it was like to live in the early 1900s in a small community along the Sandy and Beaver Canal and the middle fork

Dairy Excel: Dairy feeding and management meetings

Thursday, October 30, 2003

Ohio State has plenty of opportunities to boost your dairy management skills this winter. See this week’s Dairy Excel column.

Dairy Channel: Too much debt, not enough equity? Find out with farm balance sheet

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Dianne Shoemaker knows putting together a farm balance sheet isn’t fun or pretty. Still, she recommends doing it each year.

Forest management plan carries over to barn management plan

Thursday, October 3, 2002

A barn is more than a place to house crops, machinery and livestock. A “management plan” will help you maintain your investment.

Through the eye of a quilter’s needle, the world helps us remember Sept. 11

Thursday, September 12, 2002

People across the country poured out their post-Sept. 11 emotions one stitch at a time in a collection of quilts sent to the Pentagon.