July 2024 Story courtesy of NewsUSA Children can begin learning and participating in household duties as young as 2. While handling the tasks yourself may be easier and...
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Family Meals Can Boost Mental Health for All Ages
July 2024 Story courtesy NewsUSA Sharing a meal -- with family members that include relatives but also those you choose to call family -- not only promotes healthy eating, but healthier minds as well, new data show. More than half of Americans believe that family...
Outdoor Play Will Help Keep Screens Away
July 2024 Story courtesy of Brandpoint It’s difficult to distance ourselves from screens; they follow us everywhere — in the car, into stores, at restaurants and all around our houses. Children often become reliant on screens for entertainment, and parents sometimes...
Are you a Mosquito Magnet? Here are 4 Reasons Why
July 2024 Story courtesy of Brandpoint There's nothing quite like the lure of the outdoors when the sun is shining, temperatures are heating up and the world is in bloom. Unfortunately, while you and your family are enjoying all that the warmer months have to offer,...
Va. Tech student working to open equine center for hearing-impaired
June 2024 BLACKSBURG, Va. — Seneca Johnston has known precisely what she’s wanted to do since she hopped on a horse at 8 years old. Like most children, she didn’t initially want to go to camp. She wasn’t the most outgoing at that age. But the horses calmed her. “I was...
Alpacas draw thousands of visitors to Smith Mountain Lake Farm
June 2024 by Richard McDonough, Delmarva Farmer SALISBURY, Md. — HARDY, Va. — Have you hugged an alpaca lately? That opportunity — and many others — is available as part of the agritourism activities at Smith Mountain Lake Farm in Bedford County. The farm is owned by...
Fat is back: Why dairy farmers are curdling more cheese
June 2024 by Joshua Banner, Capital News Service For generations, members of the Shank and Creek families, the owners of Palmyra Farms in Hagerstown, Maryland, approached dairy farming the same way: they milked the cows and sold the milk to a cooperative that...