Yearly Archives: 2025
Basic necessities of beekeeping!
Beekeeper Scott Svab offers advice for beginning beekeepers on choosing equipment to start their first hive.
Sometimes ‘good enough’ is just that
Jim Abrams considers what's "good enough" when it comes to hunting and fishing gear.
Chasing joy across the prairie and undertaking a new project
Eliza Blue is starting a traveling theater company with her birthday camper, a cobbled-together portable stage and JOY.
Roundup of FFA news for May 29. 2025
Catch up on FFA news from West Holmes FFA, Global Impact FFA, Fayetteville FFA, East Knox FFA and Waterford FFA.
Roundup of 4-H news for May 29. 2025
Catch up on 4-H news from the Breeders & Feeders 4-H club and the Country Kids and Kritters 4H group.
Spring showers bring standing water and drainage drama
Program administrator for Ashland Soil and Water Conservation District Jane Houin offers insight as to how SWCDs can help with complex drainage issues.
What gazaing strategy will you choose?
Ohio State Extension educator Josh Winters considers the value of different grazing strategies.
Forever grateful on Memorial Day
Judith Sutherland considers reasons to be grateful on Memorial Day.
Taxpayers and farmers caught in ‘government payment trap’
Alan Guebert considers the Congress' struggle to write an updated Farm Bill, and the issues its causing farmers and taxpayers in general.
Considerations for delayed planting
Ohio State Extension educator Lee Beers outlines considerations for farmers facing delayed planting in Ohio, following an unusually rainy spring.

















