agriculture

By virtue of being a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Jackie Stanley figures someone will give her a hanging flower basket for Mother’s Day ...

ALLEGANY, N.Y — You won’t have to look far to trace the source of the produce in Allegany-Limestone Middle-High School’s cafeteria this week. The frui...

HARRISBURG — Several small businesses in the region will receive funding through the state Department of Environmental Protection to help reduce costs...

GARDEN: Have you prepped, cleaned, sharpened and limbered up? We’re talking, of course, about gardening tips from the Penn State Extension. If you’ve ...

Students from the Bradford Area Christian Academy celebrated Earth Day and National Arbor Day this year by participating in the Seedlings for Schools ...

BISON : “Bison at Port Allegany” read the headline on the article sent in to us by Clyde Johnson, Port Allegany historian. “We read a great deal about...

With garden season right around the corner, a number of local people decided to gather at Graham’s Greenhouse Thursday for a Garden Talk class offered...

High-paying blue-collar jobs lifted incomes in West Virginia, New York and Illinois last year, even though the states lost residents, while farmers an...

Cheryl Harris of Abbott Road in Bradford took advantage of Monday's warm, dry temperatures to plant a few spring bulbs near her and her husband, Ed's,...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — While warm weather was reluctant to visit the area last week, it didn’t deter staff at Canticle Farm from spring planting and announc...

SMETHPORT — A day-long workshop is scheduled for April 30 at Pine Acres Country Club on erosion and sedimentation control in the forests. The conserva...

As the motto suggests, participants in McKean County’s 4-H programs strive “To make the Best Better.” That goal for improvement is evident this week, ...

Gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts will be able to do everything from learn how to start a basic garden to examine and photograph their own plants unde...

It might be difficult to think about green ground when all Bradford residents have been seeing lately is white ground, but local master gardener Bob H...

USDA : Here at The Era, we get a lot of emails. One recent message caught our eyes as being a bit different than what we usually see. It dealt with un...

It’s snowy and slushy and slippery outside — it’s February in Pennsylvania. And yet Ben Grice’s lettuce crop is lush, green and beautiful. Grice’s hyd...

The winter brings with it wildlife watching opportunities. At our house, two panes of glass make up the greater portion of one wall within our kitchen...

Each holiday season before the decorating begins homeowners find themselves confronted with a choice: celebrate with a fresh, real tree, or one that i...

WASHINGTON –– The assistant to the secretary for Rural Development, Anne Hazlett, has announced that the USDA is investing $1.2 billion to help rebuil...

District 2 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Paint the Plow presentation, held at Coudersport High School Tuesday, honored Breanna Sallade, ...