Author: Tom
Drew Hastings
There are many ways you can make a living on the farm, including finding the humor in it. That’s what this man does…..
The Statues of Easter Island
For centuries these giant stone carvings have stood watch over an isolated outpost in the Pacific. They are the moi of Easter Island. Some of…
A Thousand Miles Away
Imagine a living in a place where your nearest neighbors resided over 1000 miles away. That’s real life for the those who live here…..
Growing Seed for North America
While American fields lie dormant each winter, the seed that will be planted the coming spring is often already growing somewhere in South America. We…
Seed from Chile
Last planting season as I poured a bag of corn in our planter, I noticed the seed originated in Chile. I wondered what that farm…
Menno Attema
Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world away to begin a new…
The Women’s Astronaut Program
In the early 1980’s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel began. So why didn’t women…
The Mercury Training Program for Women
The first man in space? The first man to orbit the earth? The first man to walk on the moon? You may know those pioneers…
William Quantrill
Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into Kansas to burn cities and…
A Farmer’s Market in the North
When you think of fertile farmland, you probably think about rich, deep soil in the heart of the Midwest. But to find the land growing…