Yearly Archives: 2013
Lake Erie Birding Trail comes alive during spring migration
COLUMBUS — Spring migration will bring millions of birds to Ohio in the coming months, and the Lake Erie Birding Trail offers an opportunity...
Unlike cattle, sometimes we need to move out of comfort zone to grow
It caught me by surprise. As I was glancing at all the Facebook chatter, links, updates, and social news, I saw a caption. It...
Farm friends enrich our lives
"Farmers. You have to love them to like them. You have to live among them to understand them, and even then you can't be...
Miriam Miller
WALNUT CREEK, Ohio — Miriam M. Miller, 85, of Walnut Creek, Ohio, died March 27, 2013, at her residence.
She was born June 2, 1927,...
The unbearable silence of too clean
Every parent knows that silence in small children is not necessarily golden. In households with young children, too much quiet is an instant alert...
Bicentennial Farms in Lawrence County: Neighbors bound by history
Crystalaire Farm and the Thompson Farm in New Wilmington, Pa. were honored with the designation as a bicentennial farm recently. Read each farm's story.
Thompson farm purchased in 1805
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — A farm with roots 200 years deep clings to what it is and what it was before a road divided...
Fulkmans keep farming in family
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Crystalaire Farm is backed by history and full of promise for the future.
In fact, the original sheepskin document showing the...
Some insight on the out-of-sight and out-of-mind: septic systems
By Lori Morey
Most of us only think about our septic systems when they are making themselves known to us in some disturbing way, such...
Rabbits or rodents? Meet the lagomorphs
Thanks to cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, the rabbits we see in our backyards, eastern cottontails are familiar to almost everyone.
And yet I...
