Jane Ray was ironing clothes and watching the news when a story inspired her to action. The news story showed First Lady Michelle Obama speaking to employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., telling them about the agency's People's Garden initiative.

CORSICANA—The Farmer-Rancher Network (FRN) is hosting a day-long gathering to promote discussion between farmers and consumers about ways to support local agriculture.

A demonstration garden, put together by the Nacogdoches County Master Gardeners, is quickly becoming a gathering place for the people of Nacogdoches.

As the weather gets cooler and cooler deer hunters should have something to cheer — a whopper of a persimmon crop.

In the 1930s men needed work.
Part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was to spend government money to put people back to work, and one of those programs was through the Civilian Conservation Corps.

At the height of the Great Depression young men were transforming the nation.

BOSTON (AP) — Doris Smith Mills often comes across past editions of the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” lying around her family’s 110-year-old Westport, Mass., farm. She believes previous Smiths read it for entertainment and its yearly weather predictions to ready for New England’s fickle climate changes.

As the economic recession deepens, the effects become more and more evident as tent cities grow across the country, even here in the major metropolitan centers of Texas.

The American Dream is not a myth, it can be found in the ongoing operation of the William George Co.
It’s a story that began in 1932 when William George, a young immigrant who came to Palestine to make a new life for himself, turned his work into a business that now has three warehouses and 32 refrigerated trucks on the road.