SEMINARY, Miss. (WDAM) - A Covington County-based non-profit that grows vegetables and donates them to local food pantries needs volunteers to help harvest this year’s crop. The group called, “Seeds ...
Champaign, IL- Volunteers in Champaign harvested corn Saturday for local families in need. It was a joint effort between Provena Covenant Medical Center, and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. Volunteers ...
Before farming became mechanized, picking corn by hand and pitching ears into a horse-drawn wagon was how harvesting was done. In the late 19th century, local contests were held to determine the best ...
“My dad would fasten this in the palm of his hand with the leather strap when picking and husking corn by hand.” “I used one 60 years ago to pick corn,” Amos Conley, of Mount Joy, says of his husking ...