How to make homemade fire starters
Learn how to make simple homemade fire starters with materials from around your house.
Hunters can help manage chronic wasting disease
Hunters are the key to combatting chronic wasting disease in Pennsylvania deer, wildlife experts say. The disease can have negative impacts on deer populations and hunting, since people are discouraged from eating deer that could be infected.
Finding the right jobs for livestock guardian dogs
Despite Tarma Shena's preference for sheep, sometimes, her livestock guardian dogs like goats instead.
Maintaining Ohio’s muskellunge population
Learn more about Ohio's muskellunge population, why it has to be maintained, which bodies of water are stocked annually and how to catch the trophy fish.
Fruit farmers assess damage from warm early spring, late freeze
After unusually warm weather in the early spring, much of Ohio and Pennsylvania, along with other states, were hit hard by a late snow and several nights near or below freezing in late April. Fruit farm and orchard owners across the state are seeing the impact, but aren’t sure what the full extent of the damage will be yet.
How to master the hugelkultur gardening technique
Hugelkultur gardening improves soil fertility, keeps the growing area moist and has many other benefits. Learn how to set up your own hugelkultur garden.
‘Lack of leadership’ hurt Ohio farmland preservation program
Ohio’s farmland preservation program needs an extra $7 million this year to help it right the ship after several years of fiscal mismanagement, according to Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda said.
Ohio moves forward again on broadband expansion
The Senate unanimously passed a bill to create Ohio’s first ever statewide broadband grant program April 28. House Bill 2 is a reintroduction of House Bill 13, which lost momentum and never came up for a final vote in 2020 after receiving support from legislators, rural groups and more.
Fish walleye, muskie, largemouth bass and more in northeast Ohio
Northeast Ohio's public fishing lakes and reservoirs hold some of the Buckeye State's best populations of muskellunge, walleye and largemouth bass.
Brood X cicadas coming soon
Brood X cicadas are set to emerge in parts of western and central Ohio in late April through mid-May after 17 years underground.
