Ohio woman follows dried flowers into selling produce
Everlasting flowers were what pulled Jan Dawson into farming. In 1988, when she was 37, she married Andy Reinhart, who was 38. He had been growing artemisia for friends who dried flowers.
As the largest program under the U.S. House Agriculture Committee’s jurisdiction, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) needs a “top-to-bottom review” to fully understand where the program has been, where it is now and where it’s headed, according to Chair Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas) in a Feb. 25 hearing before the committee.
The proposed “Right to Farm” state constitutional amendment was narrowly defeated last week in the Indiana Senate, 22-28 – and the one thing on which opposing sides can agree is they were surprised at the outcome.
I grew up right around the corner from a huge farm once called Meadowbrook Farm. When I was a little girl we would drive by Meadowbrook and look at the draft horses that dotted the pastures around this big, beautiful showplace.
