News Center – Rural Rambler

By Katy Cox, Meigs High School Student

My internship through Rural Action and the Environmental Education Council of Ohio was the first internship I have ever ... Read More

Gabby Loomis-Amrhein is a maker. She’s done straw bale construction. She loves woodworking. And she is a published poet. She’s also the new manager of ... Read More

Alexandria Polanosky is the Media and Communications Director at Rural Action. She has a passion for community organizing, creative direction, multimedia production, marketing strategy and ... Read More

Christy Pugh joined Rural Action in May as the Director of Finance. During her accounting career she has specialized in financial management for small businesses ... Read More

Athens County residents can now rent a log trailer with loading arm, tractor winch, or portable winch to assist with small-scale forestry management activities. In ... Read More

A new group of National Service members is preparing to begin a one-year term with Appalachian Ohio Restore Corps, and they’re looking for rentals in ... Read More

Is your small business struggling to get financing that could help it grow or improve profitability? Consider a 0%-interest crowd-sourced Kiva loan. Rural Action can ... Read More

There are still full-time positions with Rural Action and our partner organizations available through AmeriCorps! The AmeriCorps VISTA service term begins in August and includes ... Read More

Bobbi Bishop stops her golf cart in front of a cluster of decapitated daylilies at Bishop Educational Gardens in Hocking County.

“Deer,” she says, shaking her ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Fighting through an understory thick with invasive multiflora rose and the friendlier northern spicebush, ... Read More