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The latest news outside of the pages of Cooperative Living.
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Save Your Pumpkin Seeds and Make a Delicious Snack
This healthy snack is easy to make at home and a fun project to get the kids involved.
Feds propose parts of Bath, Highland counties as critical habitat for rusty patched bumblebee
December 2024 by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury The little bumblebee, considered a keystone species because of how it benefits the environment through pollination, could be getting some buzzworthy survival assistance along the Virginia and West Virginia state...
Virginia middle-schooler’s FFA chicken project aided by parents, ag teacher
December 2024 by Alicia Wells, Delmarva Farmer RINER, Va. — Conner Davis, 13, has been raising layer chickens for the past six years and is an active member of the Auburn Middle School FFA program. Davis started by raising six Blue Sapphire and Australorp chickens...
Maryland Teacher Making Agriculture a Class Act
‘The nice thing about agriculture is it ties into so many careers and it’s personal to every student’ May 2024 by Sean Clougherty Managing Editor, Delmarva Farmer SALISBURY, Md. — When James McCrobie attends the 2024 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in...
Forestry Program Purges Hundreds of Virginia Callery Pear Trees
The reckoning has begun for the smelly invader May 2024 by Meghan McIntyre, The Virginia Mercury Both residents and Virginia Department of Forestry officials agree: Callery pear trees, including the much-loathed Bradford pear variety, aren’t just offensive to the nose...
Laying the Groundwork for Safety
April officially proclaimed as Virginia Safe Digging Month April 2024 by Staff Reports Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a proclamation declaring April as Virginia Safe Digging Month. The proclamation serves as a reminder to Virginians to contact Virginia 811...
Virginia is trying to get broadband to 162,000 locations. Old utility poles may get in the way.
Delays in making hundreds of thousands of utility poles ready for high-speed fiber could threaten funding January 2024 by Tad Dickens, Cardinal News Hundreds of thousands of utility poles, hundreds of millions in funding and increasingly tight deadlines are part of...
Doing The Write Thing This Holiday
For 45 years, a public library in Front Royal, Va. has hosted a holiday writing contest that has become a beloved tradition in the local community.
Facebook Live Event: Our Way of Saying Thank You!
The 2023 Cooperative Living magazine Facebook Live Event — “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree!” — took place on Dec. 12 at 6 p.m.