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Farms Are for Lovers

(November 3, 2008) For their wedding at Oz Farm in Mendocino County, Calif., Kate Schatz and Jason Pontius came up with unusual gift baskets, which included head lamps, flashlights, walkie-talkies and other items better suited for construction workers than teary-eyed guests.

But this was a farm wedding, without hotel-like amenities, and the couple from Oakland, Calif., wanted to make the 30 or so friends and relatives staying the weekend as comfortable as possible.

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Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town

(October 8, 2008) This town's granite companies shut down years ago and even the rowdy bars and porno theater that once inspired the nickname "Little Chicago" have gone.

Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of this hardscrabble community of 3,000 are reaching into its past to secure its future, betting on farming to make Hardwick the town that was saved by food.

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New Alliance Hopes To Preserve Kentucky's Old Barns

(August 18, 2008) A few Kentucky agencies met recently to discuss preserving parts of Kentucky's rural landscape that are as familiar as its rolling hills: Its deteriorating barns.

Representatives from the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, Preservation Kentucky, the Kentucky Heritage Council and others met recently to talk about an alliance to preserve that buildings that exemplify Kentucky's rural agricultural traditions.

Barn-preservation programs exist in at least 20 states, including Indiana and Ohio. Some barns and farm buildings remain in use across Kentucky, but there are many that are in poor condition, and are increasingly empty or marginally used. Others are dismantled as former farmland is used for roads, housing or industry.

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