The latest local news, weather and high school sports from the Heartland

Tuesday, April 16, 2013  Unusual cool weather is giving garderner more time to plant some vegetables.

Monday, October 22, 2012  16-year-old Allie Kelsey loves working in horticulture and at a local flower shop. She is this week's Ag Kid.

Monday, August 13, 2012  Which vegetables have been able to survive in this drought?

Tuesday, July 31, 2012  Small Midwest farmers struggle to fill orders, stay afloat as drought, heat kill vegetables

Monday, June 20, 2011  Still-struggling economy, rising food prices, food safety concerns keep gardening boom going

Tuesday, May 24, 2011  Some seniors maybe eligible for 30 dollars worth of farmer's market vegetables.

Friday, March 25, 2011  The Bridge View Center saw plenty of green Friday.

Friday, March 25, 2011  Japan's leader calls situation 'grave' at nuclear plant where dangerous breach suspected

Thursday, March 24, 2011  The University of Missouri Extension spent the afternoon hosting a small fruit and gardening workshop at the Missouri Department of Conservation office in Kirksville.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011  Radiation detected in Tokyo's tap water; smoke prompts new evacuation of leaking nuclear plant

Friday, October 22, 2010  A Food and Drug Administration official says the agency is looking into a produce contamination case linked to a shuttered Texas processing plant and may decide to expand a recall.

Friday, September 24, 2010  Specialty crops in Iowa will get a boost from more than $230,000 in federal funding.

Thursday, July 29, 2010  Kids learn to garden at the Adair County Extension Center.

Monday, May 24, 2010  Certain Iowans can now apply for coupons to buy local produce.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010  On April 10, from 1 to 3 pm, there will be a free high tunnel/low heat greenhouse workshop at the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) Organic Farms greenhouse, 2075 140th St. in Jefferson County, about 6 miles north of Fairfield.