Brooms can be made from a variety of materials, such as broomcorn sorghum, straw, and plastic. A full-sized broom can help keep a home clean and tidy, but what about the often overlooked hand broom?

I call it broomstraw. Others broomsedge. Whatever you call it, it doesn’t kill my memories of my grandmother’s homemade brooms. About a yardstick long, they stood in corners throughout the house. That ...

No one makes brooms by hand anymore. Well, almost no one. More than a century ago Jack Martin’s maternal ancestors, the Hockadays, began growing broomcorn alongside more conventional crops on the ...

What started as an internship has now become a part-time small business for a local woman. Shannon Bardole, of Ames, first found her interest in homemade soap and broom making when she worked at ...

Sue Nash operates her besom broom business from Tadley on the Hampshire/Berkshire border. Broom making has been in her family for 300 years, and she has supplied everyone from the Royal family to ...

LUCEDALE, Mississippi -- Beverly Isbell said anyone who was not at the 39th annual Gingham Tree Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday missed out. "I've sold out of everything I brought," said Isbell, ...

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