By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader Shelley (McConnachie) Beach was sure as a youngster that farming would not be what she would choose as her career. Realistically, rock picking and pulling weeds just isn’t that…

By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader Connie (Hennika) Kreger, 57, of Snover, grew up on a dairy farm, and as a young girl learned how to work in the hay, feed calves, and milk cows….

By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader Many of us may think of family farms as the small ones that used to dot the countryside down every side road in the county. There were cows in…

By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader In 2002, Dr. Ken Dambacher and his wife, Darlene, bought property on M-19, north of Yale, with the plans of building a doctor’s office. But, when the cost of…

By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader Hops, a fairly new specialty crop for the Sanilac County farming area, are finding success, in part to the latitude (hops belt) that Sanilac County lies on, along with…

By Jackie Salowitz Tribune Recorder Leader Although she never milked a cow in her life, Marilyn Warczinsky is a farmer through and through. And, being a farmer is what she is passionate about, growing up…