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Meyer Hatchery – The Meyer family’s main business was and is a 300-cow dairy farm. Every morning around 3 a.m., Karen gets up with her husband, Dewey, and two sons, Clay and Neal, to milk cows. From there she goes to the hatchery business where, with the help of her daughter Paig, she oversees the details of a business that includes in addition to the shipping area, a new retail outlet store, a bank of shiny new incubators and office area cubicles where 10 folks wearing headphones take catalog and Internet orders.

Lehman’s Hardware –  This Amish Country hardware store supplies items like butter churns, cream separators, and glass milk bottles for movies sets. Providing merchandise to movie production companies looking for historically accurate period pieces is a growing segment for Lehman’s.

Handicap-accessible Gardening -- A central Ohio community came together to build raised garden beds for a farmer who lost the use of his legs after an accident on his farm.

Three C Farming -- Farms aren't just found in rural areas -- Ohio's three largest cities have a wide variety of farms that raise everything from berries to alpacas to turfgrass

Food: Know your Greens

Animals in our Lives – a new column from veterinarian and Ohio Farm Bureau Director of Local Food Programs Leah Dorman    

Pleased to Feed You: Meet Richard and Jayne Young

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