When Jan Phillips was a baby, her parents said they knew by her laughter in response to a cow-driven buggy ride that she would be adventurous. Seventy years later, she's still proving them right. This is her last year on a trip to Asia.
Ninety years ago this May, my grandfather, Ronald Merle Phillips, and his twin brother, Robert Earl, were born on a farm near Chetopa, Kan. His twin died of influenza before their second birthday, but my grandpa is still alive and well. To celebrate that fact, 150 family and friends gathered at the community center in Parsons, Kan. last month.
Agritourism businesses in the Midwest come in many forms, everything from pick-your-own berry fields to animal barns.
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Customer Connie Farmer, left, waits for her berries as Renee Seba rings up her purchase at Mule Barn Berries.
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Raasch advertised the opening of Carolyn's Country Cousins in 1991 by leaving flyers on minivans in the parking lot of the local Wal-Mart.
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Melanie Gieringer picks an English cucumber in a hoop house next to the orchard.
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Co-owner Carolyn Raasch, right, helps her granddaughter Adalyn Raasch feed the goats at th
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Maintaining the authentic feel of farm life at Carolyn's Country Cousins is important to Buddy and Carolyn Raasch.
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Renee and Charlie Seba, the owners of Mule Barn Berries, are experimenting with two rows of raspberries, which have turned out to be customer favorites.
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At Geiringer's Orchard in Edgerton, Kan., Frank Gieringer planted sweet corn next to his peach orchard to help meet customer demand for "what else have you got?"
Picking fruit, tasting wine, petting a goat, roping a cow. When customers pay for the honor of taking on such farm chores ... or delights … it’s called “agritourism.”
This week on Exam, we talk with the future Principal of Battle High School in Columbia about her plans for the school, and we’ll tell you about the University of Missouri’s partnership with China.
Battle High School won’t open its doors until August 2013, but the school’s future principal is already busy making plans. KBIA’s Camille Phillips recently caught up with Dr. Kim Presko at Oakland Junior High, where she has been principal for the past twelve years.
This week: Missouri could gain over two hundred thousand jobs by the 2025, and the Department of Labor proposed new regulations on kids working on the farm who are under 16.