Sunday, February 22, 2026
A tractor pulling a planter drives on a road with a car following closely behind it.

The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau held a safety awareness event April 18, at a farm in Cumberland County, to recognize Rural Roads Safety Week.
hiking boots

Learn how to avoid coming into contact with invasive plant species while you're hiking and how to prevent spreading their seeds.
woman stands beside chestnut milling machine at Rural Action

As a speciality crop, chestnuts are enjoying a popularity that hasn’t been seen in about 100 years and growing them is fairly straightforward. Amy Miller of Route 9 which is part of Rural Action, a membership-based nonprofit organization based in Appalachian Ohio, says, "Chestnut trees can grow on irregular, uneven slopes with acidic soil or well-drained sandy soil, which is pretty typical of the Appalachian region of the U.S."
white-tailed deer

The Ohio Wildlife Council approved proposed hunting and trapping season dates for 2023-24, including deer bag limit changes in seven counties.
brown and white chicken on white sand

Since the first positive case of HPAI in Pennsylvania, more than 4.6 million birds have been killed as a result of the bird flu.
Pennsylvania farmland

The Shapiro Administration announced that Pennsylvania protected 2,038 acres on 22 farms in 13 counties from future residential or commercial development.
young solar power proponents

Agrivoltaics is making some headway in Ohio as farmers and Ohio State University researchers look for ways to integrate solar power and agriculture.
male turkey

Youth wild turkey hunters across Ohio harvested 1,823 birds during the special youth-only hunting weekend, April 15-16.
morel mushroom

Learn how to tell the difference between morel mushrooms and several types of mushrooms with wrinkled caps that may appear in the woods during the spring.
sheep

Each spring, Tarma Shena watches to see how an area responds to winter’s rest before moving stock around. It's a process that has grown and evolved.