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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…
By Duncan Allison,
Mushrooms have been an important agricultural industry in Chester County for over 100 years. Proximity to large urban populations, availability of raw…
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…
Many of us feel the responsibility to look after the poor and those in need among us. In 1996, Senator (then Commissioner) Dinniman was called…
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…
By Duncan Allison
Agriculture has shaped our countryside and played an important role in Chester County since Colonial Days when this region was considered the…
By Allison Duncan
Tobacco has been grown since Colonial times in Pennsylvania but the production of burley tobacco was not permitted during the 1938-2004…
Lindsey will be entering college this term with so much more confidence after moving through several 4-H programs and becoming an…
Spring is the time for planting corn so farmers are hoping that dry weather will enable them to plant the 93.6 million acres that…
The safety of our food supply is a very basic and understandable concern. Unfortunately it is easy to be confused since there…
Dairy farming and dairy products have long been associated with Chester County since there was strong demand from Philadelphia and the expanding…
Farmers in Chester County have been reacting in several different ways to the increasing interest in locally produced food. The 12 farmers…
Go to the Pennsylvania Farm Show in the middle of the winter?
No way, but the Pennsylvania Farm Show is always held…
Chester County’s reputation as The “Mushroom Capital of the World” came about in the 1890’s. Two Quaker greenhouse flower growers…
For centuries farmers have relied on their hay crop to sustain their livestock during the winter months. Cattle, horses, sheep and goats…
Each year it has become a tradition for families to visit one of the many local Christmas tree farms in Chester County to select their…
Turkeys are closely associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas for good reason. Those early settlers in New England wanted something special to celebrate…
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