With March almost upon us and spring right around the corner, area winter meetings are ending but you still have time to register for several meetings close to home.
Cro...
Punxsutawney Phil declared an early spring for 2019. With that encouragement, these activities lay the groundwork for our gardening preparations.
Finalize your vegetabl...
The Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Allegheny County Conservation District will host the 3rd annual Western Pennsylvania Regional Soil Health conference M...
Members of Butler, Beaver-Lawrence and Mercer County Farm Bureaus recently attended the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference, “Culti...
As I write this article the current temperature is hovering around 4 degrees, but the forecast temperature by the time this article is published could be in the mid-fift...
The Butler County Penn State Extension office, 101 Motor Pool Way, Butler, is holding a ServSafe food safety manager course from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 21 and 28, and a c...
MCCANDLESS — A 9-year-old girl with a green thumb is being rewarded with the other kind of green for growing an extraordinarily large cabbage.
Lily Ries, a fourth-grader...
Avoid the urge to do too much
Is anyone tired of shoveling snow? We are only part-way through winter, and more snow is on the way.
Shoveling snow is now a part of our wi...
Butler County was well represented among the hundreds of competitors at the 103rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, which ran from Jan. 4 to Saturday at the Farm Show Compl...
As the 103rd Pennsylvania Farm Show rolls along in Harrisburg, a local participant can offer something positive for farm enthusiasts stuck back home in Butler County.
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