ALTOONA – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is conducting a dozen in-person farmland lease meetings in Central Iowa in early August. Meeting sites include Adel, Altoona, Ames, Boone, Grinnell, Grundy Center, Indianola, Knoxville, Newton, Marshalltown, Oskaloosa, and Toledo. ...
DES MOINES — The Iowa Healthiest State Initiative’s Double Up Food Bucks program has expanded its partnership with Fareway by adding eleven participating locations, including a new location in Toledo. Other new sites include two in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Clinton, Fort Madison, ...
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District celebrated Soil & Water Stewardship Week by donating conservation books to local elementary school libraries throughout Tama County. On behalf of its students, Meskwaki Technology Teacher Michelle Phinney and South Tama Library ...
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District announces its Stewardship Week Poster Contest winners: Alexa Rocha-Ayala of Ms. Kucera's third grade class at South Tama Elementary School and Brenna Miller of Mrs. Carty's fourth grade class at Union's Dysart-Geneseo Elementary School. ...
It started with one drop, then there was a second and a third, and before you knew it, the Toledo Heights soccer field needed a lifeguard. Between the wind and the rain and everything else that seemed to fall from the sky, last week's storm was a doozy. Cherry Lake filled back up for a few ...
TOLEDO - On April 27, the Tama County Master Gardeners planted a Monarch butterfly garden in front of the new mural on the side of the Abstract building In Toledo across from the Court House. The garden will provide season long nectar for butterflies and other pollinators. The late season ...
In celebration of Soil & Water Stewardship Week 2024, Tama Soil & Water Conservation District donated northern red oak seedlings to 322 sixth graders in the Green Mountain-Garwin, Meskwaki, South Tama, Union, North Tama and Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Districts. This continues Tama ...
Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team members, Olivia Hanson (Union High School), Ryan Hosek (North Tama High School), William Kroneman (Benton Community High School), Kaylynn Murty (South Tama High School), and Adelynn Sienknecht (North Tama High School) each earned a $2,000 Iowa Youth Beef Team ...
Tama County Master Gardeners and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Tama County encourage farmers and gardeners to grow a little extra food again this year. 'Grow A Row for Tama County - Backyard Gardeners Fighting Hunger' is a campaign to encourage residents to grow and share ...
TAMA - Flanked by Rep. Derek Wulf (R-Hudson), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, a fellow Republican, took a tour of the Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama with General Manager Jon Surman last Friday morning and learned more about successes and challenges at the facility, which currently ...