Douglass Township, Montgomery County-based "Country Brooms" is set up at the farm show in Harrisburg this week. The company has been making handmade brooms for the past 48 years. Owner John Paul ...

In addition to unsustainable handles, typical brooms have synthetic bristles made of nylon or polypropylene, which eventually ...

The brooms are made of harvested or downed branches or saplings and storm-felled split logs (pine, birch, oak and ash). The processed broomcorn used, which is actually sorghum rather than corn ...

Located in the hills of Southern Ohio, far from the nearest metropolis, Curt Cable specializes in various types of authentic handmade brooms, wood spirit carvings, bark berry baskets, and other ...