Thursday, December 4, 2025

Around the Table

Make holiday cooking healthier with smart swaps, mindful eating, safer food prep and simple planning while keeping festive flavors you love.

How-To's

Liz Partsch provides a step-by-step guide on how to plant milkweed in the fall to support native species and pollinators including the monarch butterfly.

For centuries, honey has been used as medicine for different aliments; some of these uses still ring true today.

Columns

deer head

From first snowfall to harsh winds, learn how shifting winter weather affects deer behavior in Ohio, and how hunters can adapt stand locations and strategy.
dinner

Make holiday cooking healthier with smart swaps, mindful eating, safer food prep and simple planning while keeping festive flavors you love.
Jeannie Seabrook

Holiday meals begin on local farms. Celebrate community, tradition and flavor this season by supporting the farmers who nourish our tables and memories.
drought map

Ohio’s forage and corn silage season saw drought, delays and low quality. Learn how variability impacts feed value and why testing and adjustments matter.
spider

Explore early Ohio frontier kitchens, where nonstop fires, ash piles and iron “spiders” and “salamanders” shaped daily cooking and pioneer life.
dairy tour

Judith Sutherland reflects on farm life, responsibility and lessons passed through generations, where work shaped time, character and growing up.

Recipes