A great thing about reading Family Living is being introduced and getting to know Iowans who are doing interesting, and often remarkable, things.

In this edition, we meet Melissa Nelson, who has started her own line of agriculture-themed greeting cards and other items in her design business, called Hungry Canyon Design. It’s named for the watershed where she lives in western Iowa’s beautiful Loess Hills.

Nelson, who raises corn, soybeans and cattle with her husband and son, works to make...