Kayla Jones - Oct. 20
For the fourth year, Holmes County Farm Bureau has made providing food for those less fortunate a priority. This year, the COVID-19 pandemic made hosting the traditional dinner impossible. Instead, the Farm Bureau Board of Trustees asked their members to…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - Sept. 15
Jesse Whinnery of Coshocton is serving on the 2020 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Policy Development Committee. The committee collects and organizes public policy recommendations from county Farm Bureaus and presents the final policy suggestions to be voted on by Ohio…
Kayla Jones - Aug. 10
In an effort to address the surging community food bank need due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the economy, Farm Bureaus in Carroll, Holmes, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit and Wayne counties collaborated in a Pork to Pantry project which…
Kayla Jones - July 30
For the past three years, the Holmes County Farm Bureau has hosted Harvest for Hunger and through that event has raised over $30,000 for the food pantries in Holmes County. While Farm Bureau is unable to have an event of…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 24
For a while in late spring, there was a significant slowdown in meat production. Food chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in meat processing bottlenecks. Grocery and food pantry refrigerators and freezers were running low or on empty,…
Jennifer Fatheree - June 8Hours for the Wooster Farm Bureau office servicing the Ashland, Holmes, Medina and Wayne County Farm Bureaus have changed. Hours are: Monday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday CLOSED Thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - June 3
This special June 2020 edition of Growing our Generation focuses on how four different businesses have faced and adapted to the challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and how Farm Bureau has been able to assist them. Growing our…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - May 21
Statewide Directory of Local Food Producers – OSU CFAES Farm to Home Food Buying, Great Lakes Region Ohio, Michigan, WV. Facebook Group OEFFA Good Earth Guide Find a Farmer’s Market – Ohio Proud Ohio Find It Here – Breweries and Wineries…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - April 27
Scott Rodhe has never seen anything like this in his lifetime. No one has. The owner of Rodhe’s IGA Marketplace in Millersburg recently talked with Our Ohio Weekly radio program about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on his…
Kayla Jones - April 24
Holmes County Farm Bureau Policy Development Committee wants to hear from Farm Bureau members. The committee members are interested in the membership’s ideas as to the major issues and needs of Holmes County. COVID-19 and social distancing has certainly been…
