Thursday, November 7, 2024
giant foxtail

Learn how to control green, yellow and giant foxtails in their hayfield.
Item No. 1192

Found in the old engine room of their family farm, can you identify this week's new Hazard item?
desk

Rachel Carson is known for her writing, but she should also be remembered as having lived an extraordinary life. 
harvest

Harvest thinking is dominating grain markets on the Chicago Board of Trade already. marlin Clark provides his input in this week's grain report.
bee colonies

Aaron Dodds recaps a run-in with the thousands of bees in his hive and shares some conservation-minded gardening practices that can benefit pollinators.
treshing machine

Threshing day was the greatest day of the year for farmers in the 1930s when life was slower, harder and more neighborly.
Clardale manure pit

Confined spaces on farms are hazards, and difficult ones to recognize. Learn safe practices for working in and around confined spaces on farms.
Kym Seabolt's porch

Kymberly Seabolt reminisces on how she spent and enjoyed her summer vacation. It doesn't always take grand plans to be content.
farmers market

Alan Guebert reviews a recently published study and concludes what we need are less costly, more environmentally-sound regional and local food systems.
paddle board

Julie Geiss and her family return home after a cross-country trip that ended in Montana to enjoy all the wonderful things home has to offer.