Every day, Iowans drive past 19-century storefronts and factories, square farmhouses, and the occasional one-room…
Home and Garden
Nature needs our help! Recent headlines about the global decline of bird and insect populations…
The most widely used definition of sustainability was established in 1987 when the United Nations…
There’s a magic when you put a seed in the ground, and then you have…
In the September garden, everything is on hand. The earliest apples sweeten in crisp morning…
The Fairfield ReStore on Highway 34 West has been restored, revamped, and expanded! Under the…
It’s a fact. Strategic planning is part of any good garden design, and companion planting…
The Fairfield-based JC Huffman Cabinetry Company originally started out as a hobby. “My husband Jim…
An early-1900s house that was once at risk for demolition will soon become headquarters for…
Since the age of ten, when I wasn’t busy being a student, a sailor, a…
Join the Sierra Club of Southeast Iowa and the Fairfield Farmers Market for a month-long…
I am Alice, and Wonderland is my garden—a rabbit hole of planting, digging, weeding, feeding,…
When Southeast Iowa native Mary Essary Hoyer moved back to her home state a few…
This upside-down year, for many, was a call to step back and take stock. As…
I’ve spent my adulthood escaping romantic entanglements. That’s how I always feel: tangled up, like…