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A Home-grown Thanksgiving Feast?
If you’re trying to put a home-grown feast on the Thanksgiving table, the horticulture section of our website has all the know-how you need!
Local Turkey on the Table?
What’s involved in putting a heritage breed, pasture raised turkey from a local farm on your Thanksgiving table? For one thing, start early!
Hey Turkey! The Wild History of Oklahoma’s Wild Turkeys
Nowadays, wild turkeys are thriving throughout Oklahoma – but that wasn’t always the case. These resilient natives once nearly went extinct.
President’s Note: Sawmill Workshop
The Kerr Center recently hosted a sawmill workshop for local schools, with assistance from the Oklahoma Department of Forestry.
Monarchs Not Endangered After All
Barely a year after declaring them endangered, a major conservation group now says the monarchs are not in as much danger of extinction.
Cover Crop Benefits – Both Ecological and Economic
An Oklahoma farmer is showing the benefits – ecological and economic – a switch to cover crops and other conservation practices can yield.
Eastern Redcedar Eating up Rangelands, Crowding out Cattle and Curlews
Vast swaths of Great Plains rangelands have gone from having too little shade for livestock to too little grass in eastern redcedar’s shadow.