How do you make a broom? You begin with broom corn, which is a type of sorghum, available in Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas. The seeds need to be removed, the straw sorted into comparable lengths ...

PINE RIVER — Balsam Moon Preserve is offering Broom Making 101 using traditional materials of broomcorn, twine, and wood 1-5 p.m. Feb. 8 at Balsam Moon Preserve, located 10 miles west and south of ...

KIRBY, W.Va. (AP) - In 2017, West Virginia Public Broadcasting featured one of West Virginia’s last remaining broom makers; Kanawha County resident Jim Shaffer. The story ended with a question: would ...

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Broomcorn harvesting used to be a major part of the U.S. agriculture industry before being swept away in the 1990s, but one Kentucky craftsperson is looking to bring it back. Artisan broom-maker ...

Teacher Katharine Payne, right, helps Simon Peters Lagana, left, 11, tie stalks of broom corn together during a broom making class at the Hartsbrook School, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Hadley. Credit ...

It's Halloween care package time, and there are only so many ways you can repackage the same kind of candy so it seems like a treat. So if your service member is missing Halloween this year, try this ...

VICTOR — Sam and Karen Morrison learned to make brooms by pulling them apart. The Colorado couple’s unlikely craft started after watching a demonstration in rural Iowa, more than three decades ago, ...

LONG GROVE, Iowa — Bits of straw blew as Daniel Jepsen of Great River Brooms lowered a steel blade and trimmed the uneven ends of a kitchen broom in the making. Jepsen, a farmer in Miles, Iowa, and ...

A Pratt man is recognized for something unique in his curbside garden. The tall spectacle is the broom corn, towering over his property at more than 12 feet tall. Kenny Fobes says he wanted to ...

When Sam Moyer, Ph.D., 90, retired as a geneticist/biologist in 1997, he began focusing on a new hobby that centered on him putting out an annual newsletter and flourished into a business — all ...