This southern crop is tropical by nature, but can be grown successfully in Kentuckiana as long as we wait until it is warm (nighttime temperat…
Growing up in the forties one seldom came across someone in the family or in the family of friends who retired. Preachers didn’t retire--docto…
Food was not a big problem for the earliest residents of Kentucky. Sources of protein were almost unlimited. A look at the map today reveals j…
We usually think of a windy season as a time for somewhat of a natural cleaning of left-over winter leaves and debris. While all this detritus…
Over spring break, my family drove to Asheville, North Carolina for an extended weekend trip. Despite having visited the town several times, i…
If you frequently find yourself shopping for woody plants or herbaceous perennials, you are likely aware of the fact that we live in Zone 6. I…
I’ve decided that it’s just as important how I see myself as it is how others see me. I think the psychologist might even say it’s more import…
Saturday, April 22, 2023, was Earth Day and five Grant County Homemakers, along with family members, tackled the roadside cleanup project of B…
Growing up where I did in the heart of coal mining country in the far eastern end of our Commonwealth, seeing men on crutches or in wheelchair…
Years ago, I square-baled a bunch of good hay on the ridge of my old farm. I finished late in the afternoon, got off the tractor and headed ho…
Is there anything as good as fresh vegetables from the garden? There is definitely a flavor loss when even garden fresh veggies have to wait, …
Recently, I read a book of household hints from 1951, and it got me thinking about how little of the advice was relevant to the way we live ou…
Did you get to have an egg coloring at your house this Easter? Maybe not. There are so many colored egg options now easily and affordably avai…
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I am a reader. One of my greatest dreads in life is to be stuck waiting somewhere with nothing to read. Since I don’t use a smart phone (I kno…
Kentucky, from its biologically diverse forests in the eastern highlands to its rolling farmlands along the mighty Mississippi, is a wonderful…
Lucky for me I grew up in a time and place where there was an amazing array of folks. Because of the amount of workers needed in a heavy minin…
Symbiosis is basically the interaction between two organisms living in close proximity to one another.
In the spring of 2000, I was in a government seminar class during my senior year in college. Other than the fact the class was being taught by…
I spent a lot of years learning to be a farmer (and I mean a lot!).
Even among readers as old as I, there is probably not one of us who has driven or even ridden off a mountain on a logging road. First of all, …
After my last column it seems the populace was intrigued with my promise to tell the story of Williamstown’s prostitute that worked for the ma…