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Field Notes: Starting a deep compost garden

Field Notes: Starting a deep compost garden

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I read an article over the weekend that suggested the fixins for a typical Thanksgiving dinner cost 15 percent more this year than last. For most of us, that...
Field Notes: All corn is Indian corn 

Field Notes: All corn is Indian corn 

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  There’s a good chance that when your family gathered around the table on Thanksgiving, one of the dishes set in front of you was corn. Corn is arguably the...
Field Notes: A kiss from Samantha 

Field Notes: A kiss from Samantha 

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I was intrigued by my fellow Paw columnist Beck Dill’s piece last week on the “friendly” corn snake. Snakes and I go way back. Indeed, some of...
Field Notes: If I had a million dollars 

Field Notes: If I had a million dollars 

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  In the third episode of the eighth season of the television series “The Office,” the warehouse crew quits after winning a shared million dollar lotto...
Field Notes: OCD in nature; good luck with that

Field Notes: OCD in nature; good luck with that

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  A couple of weeks after my wife and I moved onto our first home, an old farmhouse midway between Bowling Green and Perrysburg, Ohio, I got up, went to the...