Editors Note
10/12/2009 11:56:57 AM
Hank looks at winter forecasts from Farmers' Almanac and the National Weather Service and hopes for the best.
8/11/2009 3:37:30 PM
Returning from Ayrshire Farm, in Virginia, Hank Will reflects on a remarkable experience.
6/15/2009 2:38:45 PM
From childhood to present-day, harvest season remains a special time for GRIT Editor Hank Will.
4/14/2009 12:22:29 PM
As spring turns to summer, it's an exciting time to be alive.
2/4/2009 12:00:43 PM
Gardening is a part of Hank's history, as well as America's.
12/2/2008 11:57:30 AM
From the magazine to livestock at the farm, we saw plenty of good changes in 2008.
8/12/2008 3:17:50 PM
One of our foremost goals with the new www.Grit.com is to foster a strong sense of community among Grit readers, Web site visitors and magazine staff.
7/30/2008 10:10:15 AM
I learned to love the Fourth of July long before I could comprehend the date’s true significance.
4/30/2008 10:16:09 AM
Long before I ever read the likes of Aldo Leopold, Henry David Thoreau or Wendell Berry, I was fascinated with trees.
3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
More Than Building Plans
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Register of Rural Affairs offers Grit-worthy advice to country dwellers.
1/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Time Change a Surprise
11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
It's the 9th of September. I took advantage of the season's first cool temperatures and spent the morning cutting fence posts from several Osage orange (Maclura pomifera; hedge, hedge-apple, bow wood, etc.) trees for a pen-building project that has been on my mind all summer.
9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
It's thistle season (mid-June) in Osage County as I write this; I spent several evenings this week and a good part of last weekend cutting blossoms, digging roots and spot spraying with herbicide.
7/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Kansas is now my home.
5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
In this month's Mail Call we have a wonderful note from Anne Sowell in Hendersonville, Tennessee, regarding the proper use of you all.
3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Television and movie writers would have us believe that it was six-guns and rifles that won the West, but I have a different idea.
1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
It was a blustery winter morning here in eastern Kansas when I decided to check on my neighbors' pygmy goats. After a hectic harvest season, and just before an equally challenging planting season, my friends Ken and Nancy had headed south to the Cayman Islands for some R and R, leaving me to watch their place.
11/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
My father was so mild-mannered, I heard him swear only twice in my life. However, when he and Mom took the boat to the lake, he proved that a man can express substantial levels of irritation without uttering a coarse word.
9/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
We all have different definitions of the Good Life. Mine involves living someplace where I can lift the telephone directory with one hand and my dog doesn't have to be on the leash every time he steps outside.