Last week, I drove through something I had never experienced before in Minnesota.
A black dust storm.
The ground was so dry and the wind so fierce that the soil lifted right off the fields and
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Farm News
Branches, Blossoms & Hope
Eight years ago, we planted a Honeycrisp apple tree.
This spring, for the very first time, it is blooming.
That
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Annual Haircut
Well, it's official. Spring has arrived on the farm.How do we mark the occasion around here? Two ways: the cows walk out
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A Suitcase for Heaven
I have had family and friends experience loss this month. It is hard.
I felt the weight of it while washing dishes
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The Pigs Are Getting a Garden This Year
I woke up to the cattle loudly complaining — moos carrying across the barnyard in the -18° windchill. The water had
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The Robins Are Back.
I hardly know how to contain myself this week. The geese are streaming overhead in great, honking lines, the clover is
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She Said Yes (In Our Barn)
Something wonderful happened in our barn last week.
My little sister got engaged!
A few days before, her now
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Thank You Doesn’t Feel Big Enough
Because of this community, our beef shares are now spoken for this season — wow.
I am overwhelmed by the love shown
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Winter Camping in -36 degree weather?
How are you weathering this cold snap?
My husband, Benjamin, spent his weekend camping — of all things — up in the
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Where our attention rests.
Last night, somewhere between chores and dinner, my husband Benj said something that made us both laugh—and then
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