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The melancholy of my family’s home farm
The house built by columnist Judie Sutherland’s ancestor, Samuel Young, seemed to have a sense of story, if a house is capable of holding such a thing. But it wasn’t always a happy story.
Gardeners: Test soil to save money and protect Ohio’s water
Even people with small lawns and gardens contribute to algae problems if they over-fertilize or if they leave fertilizer granules on sidewalks or driveways where they can easily wash into waterways.
No substitute for quality forages
Forage quality has a huge effect on your cows’ health and productivity and is arguably the single most important factor to dairy profitability.
Purging the unused, but making new memories
It’s funny how the things we loved can one day become the things we can no longer stand the sight of.
Pillar of strength
Ours is a lovely old farmhouse. Sturdy, solid and square.
Researcher works on revolutionizing hydroponic plant growth to feed the masses
Six years ago, then-16-year-old high school student Sanjay Rajpoot was channel surfing at his parents’ Santa Barbara, Calif., home when a documentary caught his attention. It was about hydroponics — the practice of growing plants in water without soil.
Project FeederWatch returns in full swing
It’s time for another season of Project FeederWatch, Cornell University’s premier citizen science opportunity sponsored by the Lab of Ornithology.
Love and faith gone underground
I think that some of life’s best moments happen underground. So many of us have fond memories of memorable moments spent in the church basement. The celebration of birth, life, death (or just the feeling of death by committee) and democracy carried out in an environment redolent of a pleasant mustiness and Pine-Sol© mixed with
Anticipating crop acreage in 2014
The 2013-14 marketing year for U.S. corn and soybeans is only in the second month. A lot is still unknown about the size of those crops, the strength of demand, and price levels.
Pretty perfect camping
I am happy to report that my “send a watermelon to camp” program is coming along nicely. We have come to the realization we are just too lazy to eat healthy while camping. If fruit is sliced, diced, chopped and bagged we will eat it right up. If not, well, we carry so much food
