apple tree

Stacy Nelson-Heising was a professional chef before operating her own orchard, cidery and restaurant on her family’s fourth-generation farm near Ay

Annaliese Rauschenberger

The Electric Cooperative Youth Tour is a week filled with history, new friends, tons of fun and memories that will last a lifetime.

Cottonwood Cider

Cottonwood Cider House is rooted in family – both blood relatives and the family that exists only in rural America.

Al Jaeger
Al Gustin

At a trade show last spring, I asked a soybean industry official, “What is the most exciting thing happening in your world these days?” Without hes

Pam Emmil

5-4-3-2-1. Pam Emmil didn’t count on a pain medication prescription plummeting her into addiction.

Electricity for him ad

1930 $5 and a handshake

Josh Kramer

There are countless examples of cooperative success in rural America. We write about them often in the pages of this magazine.

Roxanne Henke

It all started with my dad’s trip to Germany in the 1960s. He returned with lots of stories, and gifts for his daughters.

Al Gustin

In May 1976, I sat across the desk from Allen Fisk, a state conservationist with the Soil Conservation Service.