Sunday, July 20, 2025

Around the Table

Brianna Roe, agricultural technician for the Guernsey Soil and Water Conservation District, shares tips to reduce food waste.

How-To's

The best way to avoid a tick bite is to stay away from tick habitats. But that's hard for farmers and other outdoor workers to do. If you can’t avoid the outdoors, here are some things you can do to prevent tick bites.

Geauga SWCD Education/Communications Specialist Gail Prunty breaks down strategies for managing horse manure to reduce its environmental impact.

Columns

Image of dairy cows lined up eating.

A lot can happen from time the computer software formulates your total mixed ration until the cow eats it.
trophy-size muskellunge

Are you disappointed with your local fishing hole? Too crowded? Not what it used to be? Well, lucky for you, Ohio has many underrated fishing opportunities.

Life slows on the ranch: animals graze, gardens grow, and water is hauled by hand—reminding us that true necessities haven't changed much over time.
gardening

Judith Sutherland pulls weeds, listens to the radio and contemplates the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Candleholders on the frontier of the Ohio country could be as plain or as fancy as the local craftsmen had the ability and tools to make them.
round hay bales

Over the past several weeks, persistent moisture has dominated the weather pattern, leaving many farmers feeling like Charlie Brown under a perpetual storm cloud....