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.
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...
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...
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