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Incredible shrinking food
Nowadays, I not only take my calculator along on grocery shopping trips (the better to ascertain if we can or cannot afford to eat again this week), but I probably should take a magnifying glass along too. I don’t mean to alarm anyone unnecessarily, but our food appears to be shrinking. Granted, most would agree
Childhood memories swirl in spring
Like a breaking floral wave, the locust blossoms frothed and foamed in the breeze, their inimitable fragrance beckoning bees whose humming was an audible drone. In our back yard at home, when the grass stretched down the little grade to Yellow Creek, there were maybe six towering locust trees and when they were in flower,
Columbiana County sentinel plot will track spread of soybean rust
In response to the appearance of Phakospora pachyrhizi, or soybean rust, in the United States, the USDA developed a federal, state, university and industry framework for surveillance, reporting, prediction and management of soybean rust for the 2005 growing season.
Here’s to a not so ‘perfectly’ good year
On your mark, get set, go back to school! That rite of passage, the “back to school season,” is upon us once again, ready or not.
High tunnel help: Grow, sell your crops year-round
WOOSTER, Ohio – High tunnels – unheated, plastic-covered, relatively inexpensive structures – can grow lots of food on little land, can do it nearly 12 months out of the year even in the upper Midwest, and need fewer inputs than larger-scale, open-field farming methods.
Sloping sentiment
Kym Seabolt and Mr. Wonderful have done their best to embrace the house projects that have been thrust upon them. Now, they just have to get past logistics.
How to make fresh pumpkin puree for baking
Learn to pick, prepare and cook pie and sugar pumpkins to make pumpkin puree for baking and more. It’s really not that difficult!
Ask FSA Andy about yearly reminders and notifications
Hello Again! Happy New Year! We are all eagerly awaiting to see what 2016 has in store for us in the upcoming months. Will we keep our resolutions? Who will be our new President? Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s take a moment and look back to the holiday season that just
Good friends make for good times
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 promise of spring is kept
If there is a whopping blizzard on the Thursday this article appears, it is all my fault, because this Thursday (March 22) I unplugged the heat tape in the barn.
