In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

ELLSINORE, Mo. -- In the shade-dotted backyard of the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum, 75-year-old volunteer Virgie Alcorn Evans stopped pulling sorghum cane through the cane press just long enough to push a ...

Years ago, while on a sorghum hunting expedition in the Arkansas Ozarks, I stopped at an old farmhouse. It turned out to be a memorable occasion. I love Arkansas. There are still rural settings there ...

MOUNT IDA - If you're of a certain age, you remember sorghum. It was used "in the old days" in the form of sorghum syrup as a sweetener. In the early 1900s, rural families depended on sorghum syrup as ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — The 25th annual Sorghum Festival will allow visitors to Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site to observe sorghum cane being processed into molasses using a mule-powered mill on ...

Steam enveloped a shelter at the Madison County Young Farmers site. Only the sounds of laughter and chitchat offered clues that people were working within the cloud. Every once in awhile a strong ...