An ephemeral emergence: Part 1
What better way to usher in the spring than with a breathtaking display of wildflowers? Tami Gingrich provides a rundown of her favorite ephemerals.
Reader: Climate policy eclipses climate science
A Farm and Dairy reader responds to an article that ran March 27, arguing that recent climate changes are not caused solely by human activity.
Adventure with a wheelbarrow
Farm and Dairy reader Gordon Meeder, of Midland, Pennsylvania, shares a story about a runaway wheelbarrow.
Asking permission — a sign of respect and courtesy
With fishing season in play and turkey hunting around the corner, Jim Abrams explains how hunters and anglers can get permission to enter private land.
Of schnitz and rye straw
Paul Locher outlines the use of rye straw to make baskets and store dried apple slices, schnitz, at homesteads in the early 1800s in Ohio Country.
Game face
Kymberly Foster Seabolt really wanted her family to be a board game family; sometimes the shoe just doesn't fit.
The rural version of the Golden Rule
Alan Guebert shares a tale to explain the rural version of the Golden Rule: Do unto your neighbors’ farms that you’d have your neighbors to do unto yours.
Consider the negative impact of litter
Noble Soil and Water Conservation District ag and natural resource technician Kirstin Roman outlines the negative impacts of litter.
Alexander Smalley looks for a wife
Judith Sutherland takes readers back in time to 1873 via the journals of Ashland County bachelor farmer Alexander Smalley.
How to prevent grass tetany in your herd
Ohio State University Extension educator Ted Wiseman offers insights to prevent grass tetany in cattle herds.
