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Flowers year round

NEVADA — When the weather’s gloomy with snow blanketing the ground and temperatures dipping close to freezing, Amy Cox and her mom and business partner, Robin Collins, are dreaming of a vividly bold and brilliantly hued flower garden that provides the base for their on-farm flower business. As owners of The Vinery Flowers, Cox and her mom started their flower business in 2019. The family farm grows corn and soybeans, but Collins wanted to try her hand growing a different type of crop. “She’s always loved flowers. Since I was a child, we’ve talked about having a flower ...

The family farm

The Dec. 26 issue of Farm News features columns of Alan Guebert and David Kruse that ignore history or common sense to avoid the calamity of losing more of the best farmers in Iowa. This ...

Columns

Skirting the tree

After the chaos of Christmas breezes by and we’re left to sit in the quiet with only the soft glow of Christmas tree lights, the familiar warmth of holiday music and a bottle of wine, it can bring a lot of memories to mind. This Christmas as I did that, I noticed our Christmas tree skirt. ...

Hometown Cookin' Favorites

Winter cookin’

Living in Iowa in the winter, everyone knows that more time will be spent inside rather than enjoying the cold outdoors. This can make time drag, but if you try hard enough there are things to do that will help to speed up the long cold winter months. Perhaps learning a new hobby or craft, such ...

Editorials

First offers wealth of information

This is the time of year when football fans are eagerly scanning the statistics of their favorite players and teams. But statistics aren’t just for football fans. There are lots of other kinds of statistics, and although they may not be as exciting as touchdowns or rushing yardage, they are ...