Yearly Archives: 2013
Be thankful for Ohio’s wildlife in 2013
Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks of course, but many hunters are especially thankful that it signals the start of deer gun season...
Ask FSA Andy by FSA Andy about farm storage facilty loans
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The Farm Storage Facility Loan (FSFL) program allows producers of eligible commodities to obtain low-interest financing to build or upgrade farm storage and...
Are deer as smart as they sometimes seem?
Every fall I hear about a big buck someone has been tracking and watching for weeks. But when the gun season arrives, that big...
Planning happy holidays
Over the river and through the wood to Grandmother’s house we go!
It’s a refrain as old as the hills — or at least as...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Nov. 21, 2013:
INDIANAPOLIS — Wes Davis, of West Virginia and the Mason County Vocational FFA chapter, was elected to serve as Eastern Region vice president at...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Nov. 21, 2013:
LOUDONVILLE, Ohio — The Loudonville Livestock Club named their 47th club year Supreme Champions. Kaleb Shriver earned the supreme market lamb championship for his...
Benjamin Pecchia — Nov. 21, 2013
Benjamin Pecchia, of Canfield, Ohio, shot this buck in Greenford, Ohio.
Theresa Theil — Nov. 21, 2013
Theresa Theil, of Damascus, Ohio, shot this 145-pound deer near Salem, Ohio, with a crossbow.
Brooklyn Farmer: New York’s urban farming scene is growing roots
Brookyln Farmer is a short film documenting the months of effort by Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farming company, to turn an empty rooftop in Brooklyn's Navy Yard into a functional, and profitable, 2.5 acre rooftop farm. The new project has been called "the largest rooftop urban farm in the world." Whether or not that's the case, the farm project feels like a massive undertaking.
Cheese diplomacy and desserts
Although I'm sure it's been the source of family feuds, nothing brings people together like food. Cheese diplomacy and other dairy news tidbits.