The impact of family meals
The importance of family meals goes beyond parents ensuring their children are eating healthy diets. Family meals can affect various aspects of children’s lives, some of which may surprise parents.
Leafy Greens Suspected in Latest E. coli Food Poisoning Cases
Written by: Tracy Turner
I’m confused about the recent reports regarding leafy greens such as romaine lettuce. How is it that leafy greens can cause...
Napkins? Give Me Two, Please
How do busy families instill table manners, and what happens when the mom herself is a food-dropping klutz? Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb confesses to always needing a napking or two.
Keepin’ it fresh: How to store garden produce
Proper storage of produce keeps it fresh and ripe until you are ready to eat or preserve it. Storing produce in ideal conditions also improves its taste, texture and appearance.
Dinner Guest: Home is where the food is
By Sarah Cross
Everyone creates his own image when you think of “home.” For some, it may be their “home place,” where they were raised....
In whatever way you’re connected to agriculture, ‘thank you’
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agriculture, Russell Redding, offers heartfelt thanks during this season of thanksgiving: 'Thank you for your commitment to agriculture, in whatever way you are connected.'
Fall gardening guide
In August our regional average temperature begin to decrease, signaling that fall is on the way. Plant now to fill your cornucopia with an abundant fall harvest!
Even with technology and so much food, most are ‘food ignorant’
Even with technology, this next generation is borderline clueless of what it takes to produce food, and even more clueless at what it takes to feed 7+ billion people on a daily basis.
Here’s What’s Cooking in Kathi Hamilton’s Kitchen
Congratulations to our Week Two Reader's Kitchen Winner, Kathi Hamilton! Learn a little about our winner and get her featured recipes!
How to pick the perfect pumpkin, gourd or squash
Most non-botanists distinguish pumpkins, squash and gourds by our purpose for the plant: we carve pumpkins, eat squash and use gourds for fall decorating.
