How to help your chickens beat the heat 

Learn what to look for and how to maintain backyard gardens, porch plants, and landscapes during the summer months. (Photo by Ken Johnson, Illinois Extension)

Tips for getting landscape plants through summer

Hand pollination flower with brush. (iStock │ #133833585 - DLeonis)

In the garden: Why is my crop not producing fruit?

Longfellow Elementary second-grader Carmella Lopez and her friends learned more about swine and how they are raised at the swine session during the AgSplosion Field Day in Scottsbluff. (Photo courtesy of Chabella Guzman.)

Students explore agriculture at annual AgSplosion Field Day

Woman looking receipt from a supermarket. (iStock │ #1386010216 - LordHenriVoton)

Money-saving ideas for buying groceries, cooking at home

  • By Pat Melgares │ K-State Research and Extension news service
Get a head start on the gardening season by planting vegetable and flower seeds indoors. (Photo by University of Missouri Extension field horticulturist Donna Aufdenberg.)

Plant now for seeds of success

Straw bale gardening in a vegetable garden. (iStock │ #467839666 - debibishop)

Overcome poor soil, lack of space with straw bale gardening

Microgreen sprouts. (Photo: Adobe Stock │ #359396575 - Dmytro)

Mini greens, mega benefits: Growing microgreens at home