MORGANTOWN – Sanitarians with the Monongalia County Health Department’s Environmental Health division have hand-distributed some 1,400 doses of oral rabies vaccine in and around Morgantown this week. Dog walkers take note, the baits were disbursed in areas along the rail-trail, in the ...
Counting your blessings – one canned good at a time. That’s how Brian Kiehl saw it when he learned of the Commodity Supplemental Food Service Program, which is a component of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It’s an outreach branch of the USDA that offers various food items ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Trey Yates is a fourth-generation dairy farmer who owns Greenbrier Dairy in Rainelle. Supplying schools and food banks make up 98% of his business and U.S. Department of Agriculture cuts to programs for schools and food banks threaten to close the ...
It’s the mealtime mantra that Brian Kiehl, who directs child nutrition services for Monongalia County Schools, voices every year at this time. “Hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation,” he’ll say. Even in relatively prosperous Mon, there’s still a sizeable serving of children ...
For Christmas last year my sister gifted me the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning. I’ve only used a few recipes from it, but it has changed my outlook on canning. Pre-recipe book, I was cautious but fairly comfortable with water bath canning. I started about eight years ago, canning ...
The USDA Rural Development West Virginia office welcomed Travis Wilfong as an associate enterprise director to the state Rural Development team. Wilfong comes to USDA Rural Development from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service West Virginia office, where he served as the ...