Growing in the city
Grow City Teaching Garden demonstrates healthy-garden basics By Natalie Reidford Seventy-five years… [more]
Planting sunshine
Francis Vigo chapter NSDAR plants Sunshine Garden to share produce with community members By Natalie… [more]
So you want to grow a garden
Newbies share stories about the good, the bad and the growing in gardening By Natalie Reidford For… [more]
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Farming in the age of coronavirus
Growers adapt to new policies and practices to keep workers, consumers safe By Natalie Reidford While many of us have ups and downs in our careers, farming and uncertainty are inseparable. Those who work the land have their eyes and ears trained to factors that affect them before they affect the rest of us. Right […]
Putting up the harvest
Gardeners still proud to save and share the fruits of their labors By Natalie Reidford Generations ago, many boomers spent the late summer months plucking tomatoes, shucking corn and snapping beans picked from the family garden. After that came the task of boiling quart-size jars over the stove and filling the steaming jars with the […]
THE SONIC BOOMER
Sometimes you get the bear — and sometimes the bear gets you
By Todd Lancaster Somewhere in the wilds of Parke County I was forced to confront my fear — a fear of camping, also known as living like it’s 1685. For many years people have tried to convince me that sleeping outdoors beats sleeping indoors, that a pit toilet is not nearly as bad as it […]
THE BOOMER 1040
Tax and bartering
By Roy Ice Past articles were focused on tax planning and awareness of changing legislation and full of optimism. January 2020 seems so long ago; we were all so innocent back then. Since that time, there has been a LOT of bad news. Raise your hand if you considered tilling the back yard and raising […]