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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — When you see a simple broom, you might connect it with cleaning, chores, or even witches and wizards playing their magical sport. At Bluegrass Brooms, Shannon Lewis puts his ...

Berea College’s broomcraft program carries on an American craft tradition that’s rarely practiced today Liz Logan | Contributing Writer The brooms that are made at Berea College, in the Appalachian ...

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 ...