Contest Guidelines Farm dog owner must be a Summit County Farm Bureau member to enter the contest. Completed contest entry form and photograph must be submitted to summit@ofbf.org between June 20th and July 20th, 2021. All entries will … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2021
A Pick-Your-Own Operation
Have you ever thought about making your farm a pick-your-own operation? Well, before you start there are a few things you will need to consider, especially since a pick-your-own can be more work than harvesting your own produce … 1. - Do you … [Read more...]
Farm Markets Serving up Spring and Summer 2021
By Carol Bessemer The weather has finally turned warm after that one weekend of all that rain. So now it is very dry and we could use a nice decent rain shower. No storms or hard downpours. Just some nice rain. I know my … [Read more...]
Summit County Farm Bureau 2021 Scholarship Recipients
The Robert H. Eckart Memorial Academic Scholarship Our scholarship namesake, Bob Eckart, was a farmer and lifelong resident of Copley, Ohio, who supported the area’s agricultural community by serving as Secretary of the Summit County Farm Bureau … [Read more...]
The Hope to Eliminate Chemicals
By Tom Dayton With all the talk about runoff from farms polluting the western basin of Lake Erie, the use of pesticides in agriculture has gotten less attention. Even so, there are exciting demonstration farms found in Ohio that consist of … [Read more...]