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Mt. Gilead FFA tackles old ideas about school foods

It really is not a secret that Amer­i­cans (and Ohioans) are over­weight. Any trip to the mall, visit to a restau­rant or trip to the movies shows that, in gen­eral, there are ample expand­ing waist­lines around us. While there are many fac­tors that have taken the blame for this, there have also been many pro­posed solutions […]

Delicious foods best part of Holiday season, fresh or leftover

The gifts are won­der­ful, the snow is beau­ti­ful, the fam­ily tra­di­tions are fan­tas­tic, but as I get older, one of my favorite aspects of the hol­i­day sea­son has become the deli­cious food. I am cur­rently in left­over Thanks­giv­ing turkey bliss. This year, we brined and cooked a 32-pound turkey. I could hardly stand the wait […]

Who's fault is it?

By MATTHEW REESE We cel­e­brated our son’s sec­ond birth­day the other day, and I went out to the garage freezer to get some ice cream. I found gooshy boxes of ice cream, par­tially thawed meats and one huge mess of the result­ing hor­ri­fy­ing liq­uid rapidly fan­ning out across the con­crete floor. Who was to blame? I […]

More Fresh Country Air

I am guess­ing that it is quite a sight for any­one dri­ving by to see me with a cam­era, my two chil­dren fid­get­ing around in front of me and my wife mak­ing funny faces at them behind me in an attempt to get them to smile at the edge of a rural wheat field. But, […]

It's been a tough spring for planting

My daugh­ter has always been ener­getic and I was excited when we had the chance to har­ness some of that energy for some­thing con­struc­tive when she started play­ing soc­cer at three years old. What I have since dis­cov­ered in her (and her team­mates’) exploits on the field of play is some­what less than con­struc­tive, though […]

Rural compromise led to family business

Dawn Combs wanted a quaint farm­stead in the mid­dle of 100 acres of > herb gar­dens, graz­ing live­stock and buzzing bees. Car­son Combs wanted to rehab an old home in Ital­ian Vil­lage in the heart of Colum­bus. Their mar­i­tal com­pro­mise landed them just out­side of Marysville on a 3.5-acre farm with a pop­u­la­tion den­sity some­where in […]

Rain making for soggy sports, fields

My daugh­ter has always been ener­getic and I was excited when we had the chance to har­ness some of that energy for some­thing con­struc­tive when she started play­ing soc­cer at three years old. What I have since dis­cov­ered in her (and her team­mates’) exploits on the field of play is some­what less than con­struc­tive, though […]

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