CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As a child, Maggie Taylor didn’t like pulling weeds in her mother’s garden. But during the seven years she worked as a librarian at Parkland College in Champaign, she took up gardening again as a hobby.
New specialty farmer in Illinois sees her efforts bloom
Maggie Taylor checks flowers in the fields of Delight Flower Farm in Champaign.
CAMP POINT, Ill. — Jacob Schmidt’s father wasn’t a farmer, but that didn’t stop Jacob from dreaming about raising cattle and growing crops in …
BUTLER, Mo. — Dane Diehl drove the combine across a field on his family farm, harvesting corn. It was a gorgeous mid-September day, the Americ…
ANITA, Iowa — A fading sun illuminates the horizon as Myles McDermott watches his cows munch on rapidly growing grass.
