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Corn is easy to recognize as you drive around the countryside. We don’t live in Oklahoma but we can still sing “the corn is…
Food safety is a huge concern to all of us from farm producer to ultimate food consumer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and…
Drive anywhere in Chester County and you will see horses grazing in pastures. It is widely acknowledged that the equine industry plays a major role…
We think of bees mostly in relation to honey but honey bees play a critical role in the pollination of many of our favorite fruit…
Surely one of the pleasures of summer is enjoying a cool drink of milk at home or an ice cream at the shore. Perhaps that…
Duncan Allison
If you lived in the rural Midwest you would be very familiar with soybeans but results from a recent survey in Chester County…
History has demonstrated that civilizations can fail if farmland is not maintained. We have our own examples of significant areas being devastated by lack of…
By Duncan Allison
Plant and livestock breeding can be considered the main reason why the human race has been able to increase from a few…
Farmers in Chester County have been reacting in several different ways to the increasing interest in locally produced food. The 12 farmers…
It is difficult even to begin to describe the huge range of stands, cooking demonstrations, arenas constantly in use for auctions, cattle…
It is Christmas and food plays an important role as families come together to celebrate this wonderful holiday and important Christian festival.
Families often serve…
Chester County’s reputation as The “Mushroom Capital of the World” came about in the 1890’s. Two Quaker greenhouse flower growers…
Turkeys are closely associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas for good reason. Those early settlers in New England wanted something special to celebrate…
For several hundred years horses and horsepower enabled farmers to get more work done and farm more acres. However horses are relatively…
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