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State fair shows rural Kentucky at its best
Louisville may be the state’s largest city, but for 11 days each August it becomes the center of rural Kentucky at its best. Sure, city people enjoy the Kentucky State Fair, too. Just ask Farm Bureau...
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Family dairy finds big market for farm-fresh milk
RUSSELLVILLE — Non-homogenized milk in returnable glass bottles supposedly went out of fashion with the Ford Model T. But don’t tell Willis and Edna Schrock. The Schrocks and their eight children are...
View ArticleLand-use changes put Woodford County at risk
VERSAILLES — There is an old saying about military leaders who fail because they plan for the last war instead of the next one. The Woodford County Planning and Zoning Commission may be about to make a...
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Alltech Symposium offers glimpse of the future of food production
José Ignacio Martínez-Valero, left, shaved ham as Lucas Montero served cheese to attendees at Alltech’s annual international symposium in Lexington on Tuesday. They represent Ibericos COVAP, a line of...
View ArticleBroader discussion could find right balance in rural land use; compromise...
A city task force created 15 months ago to consider zoning-law changes to allow more recreation and tourism opportunities in rural Fayette County recently made its report to the Urban County Council....
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Once Kentucky’s biggest cash crop, it’s high time hemp returned
Photographer Thomas A. Knight took this photo of hemp stacks in the early 1900s. Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer last week sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border...
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Alltech’s business strategy is to embrace change, not fight it
Alltech founder and president Pearse Lyons, left, presented the Humanitarian Award to Lopez Lomong at Alltech’s symposium Monday. Lomong was kidnapped by soldiers in his native Sudan at 6, but...
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Developing local food economy is focus of new Lexington job
As a child growing up in Gratz Park, Ashton Potter Wright often walked downtown to the Lexington Farmers Market with her parents, who were early owners in Good Foods Co-op. “They instilled in me that...
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Land-use decisions in rural Fayette County require delicate balance
Burgess Carey rides a zip line at his controversial canopy tour, which city officials shut down. The dispute prompted a three-year examination of ways to add more public recreation and tourism...
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