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How to ID common feeder birds

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Identifying common backyard birds is relatively simple by using a step-by-step procedure.

A roundup of 4-H news for the week of June 19, 2014:

Thursday, June 19, 2014

BERLIN CENTER, Ohio — Western Reserve Rangers 4-H Club member Shannon Marshburn shared her expertise about her “Shopping Saavy” clothing project when the club met for their June meeting. Her presentation included the information she used on her poster display and how she assembled her notebook for clothing judging in 2013. Kathleen Moser announced a

The language of birds is a beautiful one

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Birds vocalize throughout the year, but the purpose of the sounds varies. Always, however, birds sing to communicate.

Fields of gold fill the midwest in fall

Thursday, October 17, 2013

On a sparkling fall day a week before the first FarmAid concert at the University of Illinois, I drove the back roads to Champaign to pick up two press passes for the lovely Catherine and me. It was mid-September, 1985, and the brown corn and yellowing soybeans rattled and rippled in a soothing breeze against

Good sports

Thursday, September 19, 2013

I am the least-likely athletic parent you would ever want to meet. I was the two left feet, poor eyesight, quintessential last kid picked. My playground days were spent hanging around the swing set, not swinging a bat to the skies. It’s the ultimate irony of the universe that someone like me would give birth

Thompson farm purchased in 1805

Thursday, March 28, 2013

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. —   A farm with roots 200 years deep clings to what it is and what it was before a road divided it in the 1970s. The Thompson Hill Farm in Lawrence County was recently named a bicentennial farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Thompson Hill Farm is nestled on a back

Some days are meant to last forever

Friday, September 14, 2012

Someone — my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone — told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a century ago in the small, southern Illinois farming community where I was raised. The story goes like this: After a wedding date was set, the bride’s father saddled his finest horse

Smart shopping 101

Monday, July 16, 2012

Fruits and vegetables aren’t the only things that go in and out of season. Knowing when to buy big ticket items can save you money.

A roundup of 4-H news for the week of April 26, 2012:

Thursday, April 26, 2012

ORWELL, Ohio — The Mustang Wranglers 4-H horse club had its regular monthly meeting April 21 at the Orwell Conversation Station. During this meeting, Mustang Wrangler members gave their demonstrations, as required by 4-H. Katrina Kingdom did her demonstration on lunging; Natasha Sobie made a poster about thoroughbred horse racing history. Abby Chernesky designed a

Carroll County 4-H backers trying to find some way to keep program going

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Many in Carroll County are hoping funding can be found for OSU Extension office or 4-H program.