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Montana detour fuels sons’ fly fishing interest
Julie Geiss recalls the detour in Montana that fueled her sons’ interest in fly fishing.
Ghosts of Gettysburg
Every year we take a vacation, my best friend and I and our collective four kids. In more than a decade of annual road trips we have always preferred museums and meaningful historical sites to amusement parks. Dragging the children through Thomas Edison’s birthplace, the faded ruins of Midwestern castles, or Henry Ford’s collective of
Alexander Smalley sees deadly fire and illness
Judith Sutherland writes about the contents of Alexander Smalley’s diary which involves a devastating village fire and illness spreading through his town.
A Question of Mending (both body and health care system)
I broke my elbow at the end of January. The crack in my bone healed unencumbered except for a sling I wore occasionally upon the advice of my orthopedic doctor as he explained grinning, “People open doors for you and things like that.” I seem to remember on past visits to the emergency room our
Cover crop, strip tillage show benefits for vegetable growers, too
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Using a strip tillage system in combination with cover crops benefits vegetable farmers as well as the land, according to long-term research by Dan Brainard, a Michigan State University horticulture researcher. Brainard’s research shows that strip tillage in combination with cover crops has big benefits over traditional tillage, including improved soil
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of April 5, 2012:
TUSCARAWAS, Ohio — Buckhorn Buckshots 4-H club meet at the Wainwright Community Hall April 1 at 4 p.m. There were 38 4-H members, seven advisers and parents in attendance. Members were reminded to turn in their enrollment cards by the next meeting. The 4-H club elected their 2012 officers. Election results are as follows: Cassandra
Appreciate the beauty of home
Eliza Blue reflects on the beauty of coming home to South Dakota after traveling.
Celebrating a decade of ‘Little Pasture on the Prairie’
Eliza Blue has written about 338,000 words over the past 10 years of her column, Little Pasture on the Prairie. She reflects on the decade gone-by.
Childhood summers were best spent using our imaginations
When Sutherland thinks of her childhood summers she can remember playing in the hay mow, swimming, climbing trees, and spending hours exploring the woods.
Cicada killers are vampires of the insect world
On hot summer days, the pulsing drone of dog day cicadas reminds us that outside temperatures flirt with 90 degrees. It’s also fair warning to be on the lookout for a monstrous insect, the cicada killer.
