Sunday, May 5, 2024

SALEM, Ohio - About 70 years ago, Mary Harlan Henderson sat at a quilting frame in her Harrison County farmhouse, carefully piecing patches of fabric into patterns.

COLUMBUS - Stew Kitchen isn't just a farm kid. He's an athlete, too, an Ohio State University athlete, a true Buckeye who's bled scarlet and gray since he was a toddler.

KENSINGTON, Ohio - Nearly 80 people gathered in a hilltop cattle loafing shed on Earl McKarns' Carroll County Farm last week to see the grazier inducted into the county's conservation hall of fame.

SALEM, Ohio - Animal sanctuary owner Annette Fisher says most Americans wouldn't consider slaughtering their cats and dogs, so we shouldn't allow slaughterhouses to keep killing horses for meat production, either.

CANTON, Ohio - The Tom Seifert family is learning that when you give a lot of yourself to a community, you get a lot back in return.

CANTON, Ohio - Two days, two sales, half a million bucks. Well almost. The Stark County Fair's junior fair market livestock sales Aug.

CANFIELD, Ohio - The coliseum at the Canfield Fair turned into a battleground last week - not just for exhibitors, but buyers, too.

WARSAW, Ohio - Margaret McCoy loves vegetables. She can't get enough snow peas or green peppers or zucchini or green beans.

CINCINNATI - County agricultural agents Donald C. Fretts and Stephen Schumacher have received the distinguished service award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Marion and Delaware counties have been quarantined to prohibit movement of firewood and ash tree material REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The emerald ash borer, an ash tree-killing insect from Asia, has been discovered in Marion and Delaware counties.