How to use your Tax Refund to Support Local Food

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It’s that time of year again – tax time. Yes, filing your 1040 is a pain. For some, it means finally having to pay the piper, and it’s not a fun time of year. But Read More …

Sunrise over a soybean field ready for harvest.

Herding Cows

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Sunday, 7:00am “We’ve got a situation.” “What?!?” Chris had gone downstairs to get our Sunday morning cups of coffee; he returned empty handed. “The cows are sitting on the front lawn.” “WHAT?” “Yep! All except Read More …

Growing Pains

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For Chris and I, becoming first time farmers has been an experience not unlike becoming first time parents. Equal parts amazing, terrifying, startling, and fulfilling, farm life is both exactly what we expected and completely Read More …

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A Small Farm Can Fix That

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With all the negative news in the world today, it can be difficult to keep our glasses half-full. Life can be so complicated, so chaotic that we are left feeling hopeless and helpless. I will Read More …

Two Aberdeens and a Charolais

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Over the past seven months, we have had the chance to learn many new things. Figuring out what all the light switches do, just how late can we can leave the kitchen without missing the Read More …

Candy-fed and finished?

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A week or so ago, while reading a Facebook thread in a large, agricultural-focused group, Chris stumbled across a story about a rain and candy soaked highway in Wisconsin. Wet weather had soaked a cardboard box Read More …

Bulk Order Updates

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Good morning, Farm Friends! Even though it feels like spring is moving in slow motion, that doesn’t mean things on the farm have slowed down! We are hard at work getting pasture fencing, chicken tractors, Read More …

Farm Report – March 12th

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Happy Monday, Farm Friends! In lieu of a longer blog post this week, I wanted to share some shorter – but equally important! – bits of information with you all. Extended Offer! Because our Founders’ Read More …

Sunset on the farm.

Its Loud Out Here if You Listen

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Hello friends! It has been too long. I haven’t posted in a few weeks, and I have felt guilty every Monday that slid by without a missive from the farm. It would be easy for Read More …

The Future of Farming in America – Part 3

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Part three of a three part series As promised, as much as an italicized subtitle can promise such things, I am getting back to the last installment of our reasons behind moving our family to Read More …