Bittersweet butchering
Eliza Blue knows the problem with roosters, but she can't help herself when her children want to get chicks at the local hatchery.
When Gene kicked in
Bryce Angell writes about some difficulty he had with shoeing a horse around his friend Gene.
Planning for the future by learning from the past
Becoming independent from the industrial food system takes a lot of work and requires an enormous number of calculations.
Backyard conservation: Now’s the time to GROW for it!
There are so many things we can do to incorporate backyard conservation practices to keep rain where it falls, minimize stormwater runoff and pollution, provide wildlife habitat and improve soil health and landscape beauty.
Crypto is buying Congress and understaffed CFTC ‘oversight’
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the government watchdog overseeing the world’s largest agricultural and financial futures contracts, is being courted by the cryptocurrency industry
Harvest in full swing throughout northeast Ohio
OSU Extension educator Lee Beers talks about how the drought and weather have impacted the 2024 harvest season.
Not all lime is the same
A soil test will tell you the amount of lime you need to apply to reach your buffer pH, but does it matter what type of lime you choose? It sure does.
Mystery photo from Ohio farmhouse identified
A mystery photo submitted by a reader might be identified.
Reader: Voting in 2024 election is pivotal
A reader writes that voting in the 2024 election is pivotal for our families.
Monday holiday makes for odd trading
None of the regular Monday USDA reports were available on Oct. 14, also known as Indigenous Peoples Days, but the trading went on in Chicago.























