Kentucky Living Magazine

4 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

GREG AND JOY GOODE are bucking a trend. During their 21 years of marriage and 19 years of dairy farming together, they have watched as both the numbers of dairy farms and dairy cows in Kentucky have decreased at least 50%. But the Casey County couple has “dairy in our blood, I guess,” Greg quips. In April, they opened Goode’s Riverside Creamery. The processing and bottling operation is supplied exclusively with milk from their relatively small herd.

4 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

Managing diabetes with help of UK’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center HARRODSBURG For recently graduated Mercer County High School student-athletes Braylon Ellis and Andrew Tatum—both consumer-members of Blue Grass Energy—basketball success is about more than talent and teamwork. It’s also about managing type 1 diabetes with vigilance. Diagnosed at age 3 and 12 respectively, Braylon and Andrew have learned to navigate life with type 1 diabetes while excelling in their sport.

5 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

June 3, 2025 13 min read Cook Imagine sitting in granny’s kitchen as she cooks something special. Mouth-watering smells waft through the air, and an early summer breeze blows through the kitchen. Nothing says safe, cozy and warm like this moment.

5 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

KENTUCKY HAS MORE NATURAL ARCHES and bridges than any state in the eastern United States, and they come in all spans and hefts. Most of the estimated 2,000 gravity-defying formations are clustered in the eastern half of the state, especially concentrated in the Daniel Boone National Forest in the Red River Gorge Geological Area and near Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

5 days ago | kentuckyliving.com | Wade Harris

FOR THE FIRST TIME in more than 50 years, a Kentucky electric co-op leader has been elected to a leadership position with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Marty Littrel, president and CEO of Meade County RECC, was elected secretary-treasurer in March. He is set to serve two years in that post, two years as vice president, and then in 2029 will be in line to serve as NRECA president.