Ohio’s wine industry: The movers, shakers and growers of a blossoming trade
Ohio wines have a full-bodied history, ripe with civil war, Prohibition, countless frosts and diseases, but there's never been a time of such growth as there's been in the past five years.
Year-round farmers markets growing in popularity, number
U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York are in the top states for year-round markets.
Heimerl Farms is a multi-faceted family operation
Heimerl Farms raises livestock and crops, makes own feed and handles trucking.
Don’t be in a hurry to sell your mineral rights
Take a ride in eastern Ohio and it is evident the landscape is changing. In some areas, driveways for gas well sites are being constructed, well pads are being poured and drilling is commencing, all for the much-touted energy boom.
Morning Dew Orchards: A blend of new technology and old methods keeps it...
Doug Woolf has expanded the farm’s crops, and now Morning Dew Orchards produces 33 varieties of apples, many of which commercial orchards don’t grow anymore.
Farm to Fork: Pa. teen starts beef cattle enterprise with a market for next...
A Pennsylvania teen is starting his own beef enterprise, and has locked in a 10-year market at nearby Grove City College through Bon Appetit's Farm to Fork program.
Overholts, Brewers focused on goats, and market opportunity
Almost neighbors, two Ohio goat producers are capitalizing on a strong market and an animal that is practical to raise.
Robotic milkers breathe new life into three-generation Pennsylvania dairy
Three generations agree: Robotic milkers were a great addition to their western Pennsylvania dairy farm.
Tea Hills Farms is ‘out on the range’
Ashland County farm champions pasture-raised livestock and gourmet poultry patties
Humphrey Farm still popping in Huron County, and across Ohio
The Stackhouse family has been managing the farm Humphrey Co. popcorn farm for more than 80 years.
