by Ruth Ready | Sep 2, 2020
CommonGround volunteer Ruth Ready shares her recipe for Microwave Cinnamon Apples with Pure Nebraska viewers. Microwave Cinnamon Apples 4 medium sized (about the size of a baseball cooking apples (Johnathan, Mcintosh or similar))1/4 cup butter1/4 cup brown...
by Ruth Ready | May 7, 2020
These signs became familiar sights for many of us in the Midwest after historic floods began in March 2019. They meant our drive would be different, longer or not possible at all. Bridges out and roads closed created challenges similar to those we have recently seen...
by Ruth Ready | Feb 7, 2020
Obviously, this is not what is meant by a carbon footprint. There has been a lot of discussion lately about carbon footprints and how businesses and individuals can be more environmentally sustainable in the way they go about things. It can be confusing to...
by Ruth Ready | Jul 2, 2019
Facts and nuggets of wisdom about chickens and the variety of ways they provide food for us. Chickens are raised either to provide meat (broilers) or lay eggs (layers). Broilers go from hatch to harvest in about six weeks. Wow, that’s fast! And it is all due to...
by Ruth Ready | May 29, 2019
CommonGround volunteer Ruth Ready shares her recipe for Rhubarb Dump Cake with Pure Nebraska viewers. Rhubarb Dump Cake 4-5 cups chopped rhubarb1/2 cup sugar1 box of yellow cake mix1 1/2 sticks of butter (melted) In a greased glass (don’t use aluminum,...
by Ruth Ready | May 2, 2019
It’s there somewhere, isn’t it? … Maybe it’s gone…. We had a field there. Farmers, including my husband and I, have been asking and wondering about this or something similar since March 13, 2019. Fields that just last year produced crops, can’t be farmed. The...
