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.
Posts
Listen to the Music of our Prairie
By Rick McNary on July 20, 2016
Every spring Symphony in the Flint Hills celebrates the history, ecology and culture of the Tallgrass Prairie. This year, the event will be hosted June 10 in Geary County. If you haven't participated...
A family affair
By Rick McNary on June 20, 2016
How many pounds of cherry tomatoes must their family sell in order to pay for gas to Yellowstone and back? Jay and Linda Sleichter posed that question to their five children for their 2015 vacation...
Home-grown beef
By Rick McNary on May 31, 2016
Satchel Creek Steaks began in 2001 the same way the Satchel Creek Ranch was acquired in 1984: old-fashioned bartering. “I learned bartering from my parents who owned cattle ranches in Colorado and...
Milking a cow...with a robot
By Rick McNary on May 2, 2016
The milk cows on Meier’s Dairy are unusual; they decide when to be milked rather than being forced to adapt to a schedule. Since robotic milking machines were installed, some cows now choose to be...
On the barn quilt trail
By Rick McNary on March 28, 2016
Chris Campbell is a professional quilt-maker because she loves a good story. In 2010, she combined quilt making and storytelling to start the Franklin County Quilt Block Tour, the first of its kind...
From the farm to 'ewe'
By Rick McNary on February 29, 2016
Isaac Brunkow loved his first Southdown sheep--Oompa and Loompa--so much he started a business raising sheep. As a high school freshman, he applied for a starter flock program for young people grant...
Growing Goals
By Rick McNary on January 22, 2016
Scott Thellman caught the ag bug at 9 years old when his parents purchased Juniper Hill Farms north of Lawrence. "My parents leased land to cattlemen,” Thellman said. "I'd wait in our farm house for...
Skyward vision
By Rick McNary on December 14, 2015
Bret Chilcott spent too much time and money on remote-controlled airplanes while growing up on a farm near Udall, Kans. At least that used to be the opinion held by Bret’s father. Bret has now...
The Bee's Knees
By Rick McNary on November 24, 2015
Tim Gogolski flips through the brittle pages of the pages of the 1952 Beeware Catalog addressed to his grandfather, Bernard. Tim now refreshes his family’s history of beekeeping in his new business...
The Fork in the Road
By Rick McNary on October 19, 2015
Valerie Visser became an entrepreneur watching her parents adjust to the collapsing hog market in the early ‘90s on the family’s northwest Kansas farm. Her parent’s creativity--fueled by a passion...
