Rick McNary
Rick McNary became intensely aware of hunger on a mission trip to Nicaragua when a starving girl asked him to feed her. He dedicated himself to fighting world hunger and recruiting volunteers to help. He is also a fan of farmers and understands that to combat world hunger we must all work together.
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Fighting Fire
By Rick McNary on May 8, 2017
D ennis Ricke scans the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge for smoke each day, a ritual he has performed for more than three decades. As a farmer and a volunteer firefighter, even the sight of smoke 18...
A Farm Family's Story
By Rick McNary on March 29, 2017
Joe Mertz couldn’t help but notice the three female college students attending Kansas State University move in the dilapidated house near his family’s farm. The year was 1978. One of those three...
How you can help with fire relief
By Rick McNary on March 13, 2017
I recently traveled the area affected by the Anderson Creek Fire of 2016 with Dennis Ricke – a local farmer/rancher/volunteer firefighter so I could write Neighbor Helping Neighbor. A year after the...
Neighbor helping neighbor
By Rick McNary on February 24, 2017
Dennis Ricke scans the Gyp Hills near Medicine Lodge for smoke each day like he has for more than three decades. As a farmer and a volunteer firefighter, even the sight of smoke 18 miles away causes...
A Business of His Own
By Rick McNary on February 3, 2017
The Griggs Brothers Farm in Augusta began after two middle-school boys, Talon and Colter Griggs, came home from school with questions about capitalism. “I explained the basics of capitalism and...
Growing a family and piggies
By Rick McNary on January 6, 2017
If you ask Christy Springer whether she refers to them as pigs or hogs, her answer is simple: bacon. “I’m writing a cookbook: I Married a Hog Farmer; Now What the Heck do I do With all This Pork?”...
Growing cotton in Kansas
By Rick McNary on November 21, 2016
Kent Goyen smiles as he gazes over his field of snow-white cotton framed against a navy-blue sky. Like a proud parent cheering on a child crossing the finish line, he applauds the crop he loves. “...
Growing Sunflower Seeds
By Rick McNary on October 5, 2016
Early on a summer morning, Wanda Esping gazes out her second-story window over a field of sunflowers. Acres of yellow globes splash across land homesteaded by her ancestors along the Smoky Hill River...
The Life of a Kansas Pecan Grower
By Rick McNary on August 30, 2016
Johnny Zwahlen remembers the noise of falling pecans hammering the large kitchen pot he held over his head as a child. “Grandpa had a shaker mounted to the tractor that shook trees so hard the...
Growing and harvesting green beans
By Rick McNary on August 30, 2016
Warren Sutton grows green beans on his farm for a most extraordinary reason: he and his wife, Eileen, consider it a ministry to give young people a summer job. They want them to learn where their...
