The history of magazines and journals can be fascinating in revealing the culture and mores of a readership. For example, according to The Online Books Page, “Farm Journal began in 1877. The cover ...

As publisher of the monthly Farm Journal, biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,870,380), Graham Patterson had an office ideally located to keep an eye on his closest competitor. Right across ...

NORWAY A recent tour of the C.W. Backman Farm in Norway was the icing on the cake for 35 participants in a one-day Agricultural Study Tour sponsored by the Saluda County Cattleman’s Association and ...

As a boy on the poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. “If you’ll pick the leftover cotton in that patch,” he was told, “I’ll give you a ...

ALEXIA ALLEN HAD BEEN teaching coed programs at Duvall’s Wilderness Awareness School for a dozen years, on everything from building a fire and purifying water to identifying and eating wild foods, and ...