Friday, December 26, 2025

Yearly Archives: 2023

Minnesota

Maybe home is more a feeling than a location. If we are lucky enough to find it in one place, so be it, but the earth herself offers this kind of belonging.
Bailey family

The Ohio Third District Court of Appeals is blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline on Union County farmland preserved with agricultural easements.
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.
Corn planting

Planting progress drives the grain markets every spring. Marlin Clark weighs in on where grain prices currently rest and how he expects prices to evolve.
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.
Chagrin River

Julie Geiss and her husband visited Chagrin Falls to explore the South Chagrin Reservation.