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Joanne Morvay Weant

Former newspaper reporter who married a fifth-generation Carroll County dairy farmer in 1995 and became a freelance writer/part-time milker. She has written for The Baltimore Sun, The Carroll County Times, The Frederick News Post and various agricultural publications. In partnership with her in-laws, she and her husband operate a 115-head dairy herd and raise their two daughters on Weant-Haven Farm in Harney. 

Content Posted by Joanne Morvay Weant

Revitalizing the Heart of Your Home

The kitchen has been called the "heart of your home." A Westminster couple decided to revitalize theirs.

Childcare Information Sources

The following websites offer information about what parents should look for in a qualified before-and-after school care program.

Taking Care With Child Care

Increasingly, working parents are entrusting their children to caregivers, before and after school. Should they engage sitters or send the kids out?

What's Mother's Day Like for Moms Who Adopt?

On Mother's Day, Jodi Sell – like mothers around Carroll and across the country – will gather with her children in Union Bridge and count the ways they have blessed her life. The question of whether each child carries her genes will never come up.

Home, Home at Last Carroll County's Blind Horse Refuge

Carroll County's blind horses find a herd, and a home.

Are Good Grades Enough on a College Application?

Sports practice, orchestra and band rehearsal, club meetings, Karate class, Scouts, volunteering, 4-H and religious youth groups: with all the extracurricular activities children are involved in today, it is amazing that they have time for school. P...

The Decorated Body: Are Tattoos Sexy, Rebellious, or Just Cool?

A Maryland crab crawls on Rudi Tosti. The crab’s shiny blue-gray shell glistens with tiny water bubbles. The delicate feathery scales lining the crab’s legs lay gently on Tosti’s left shoulder. Glance quickly at the handsome 25-year-old and the...

Before Supermarkets, There Were Locavores

Locavore. The term sounds like a reference to a prehistoric creature, long extinct. In fact, locavore is a modern word (a combination of the Latin words for “local” and “eater”) for a practice that is probably as old as agriculture itself. Th...

Play Ball!

Ronda Nichols was six years old when she first slid a brand new leather mitt onto her hand and took her position on the softball field. Twenty-eight years later, Nichols still loves putting on a well-worn, albeit larger glove, and taking her base. A ...

Saving the World One Seed at a Time

On a frigid winter morning recently, in spite of the weather,  Pat Brodowski, Paul Hawkins, Evie Matzke, Kay Sedlak and Linda Broadfoot were out checking the Carroll County Farm Museum’s Heirloom Garden, working to save the world. Well, maybe not ...