Outstanding In Their Field

April 13, 2023 / Comments Off on Outstanding In Their Field

For as long as I can remember, there have always been constant requests for hunters to come on our farm to hunt wildlife. When I…

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Here’s looking at you, kid … Birds hitting windows and other curious tweets

April 13, 2023 / Comments Off on Here’s looking at you, kid … Birds hitting windows and other curious tweets

I know the holiday season is in our rearview mirror, but some particular lyrics of the old holiday song, “Suzy Snowflake,” come to mind as…

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Miners vs. Coal Companies, Round 3

April 13, 2023 / Comments Off on Miners vs. Coal Companies, Round 3

By Sandy Vasko It is the spring of 1877. Once again, the coal companies propose to reduce the wages of the miners. But the miners…

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At the Farm Gate: Farmers Adapt to Weather

April 6, 2023 / Comments Off on At the Farm Gate: Farmers Adapt to Weather

By Joanie Stiers  “We have always been able to plant,” I reassured Mom while seated at my desk that faces hers. We should have been…

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Farm Days Gone By

April 6, 2023 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By
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16 Tons, and What Do You Get? The Shaft

April 6, 2023 / Comments Off on 16 Tons, and What Do You Get? The Shaft

By Sandy Vasko In the last few years, many have lost their jobs, many saw inflation take them into poverty, many saw hard times. These…

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We Don’t Need No Flowers and Spice to Tell Us the Season

April 6, 2023 / Comments Off on We Don’t Need No Flowers and Spice to Tell Us the Season

OK, enough about how newspapers and other legitimate media are dying. Let’s get back to food: As I have mentioned, Kolorama, a party for Herald…

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Amazing Asparagus — delicious and a great landscape plant!

April 6, 2023 / Comments Off on Amazing Asparagus — delicious and a great landscape plant!

I think of vegetables and fruits from our gardens like a calendar. For me, there is always one standout plant for each of our growing…

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Farm Days Gone By

March 30, 2023 / Comments Off on Farm Days Gone By
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Our Rural Heritage: The Civil War: March 1862 – men on the move

March 30, 2023 / Comments Off on Our Rural Heritage: The Civil War: March 1862 – men on the move

By Sandy Vasko We are back to the Civil War. It is early in the war, and most of the men had not really “seen…

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