Batavia trying to draw more visitors with windmill history
When visiting the Batavia Depot Museum, visitors can see the history about industry in this Illinois city. Besides some cool history about the Newton Wagon Co. that eventually became the Batavia Body Co., visitors learn that Batavia was known as Windmill City.
Taking care with fragments of bullets in meat just good sense
Fragmenting by lead bullets has been a hot topic in recent years, following research out of North Dakota and Minnesota that found lead bullet fragments in deer meat at food pantries.
It’s harvest time. For some women, it means you’re swingin’ the single life, except for when you are called upon to get a part or take food to the field. You’re praying for sunny weather only to have a week’s worth of rain, which in one respect is nice, because then you’re married again.
How to make a living charging for marryin’, buryin’ and carrion
Realizing they have an untapped resource for making money, many ranch families have extended their operations to include income streams besides livestock. Some have resorted to wrangling dudes, guiding hunters or renting out their ranches for weddings.
Oats and raisins, only together, are nature’s second-best food
Almost everyone knows nature’s most nutritious food is milk. Human infants and the young of almost all mammals thrive on milk from their mothers or from other sources, for the beginning of their lives. What is the second-most nutritious, or might I say complete, food? Is it honey?
