A day to come and tour our farm will be August 21, 2010. Midwest Bio-Ag has put a corn test plot in this Spring here. Doc Paul Dettloff has given us corn to plant and test growth on. A great way to get up close with our animals, pastures and see the critters and places [...]

Cumulus clouds float freely like white puffs of cottonballs in the sunny Spring sky. I’m wow’ed and vow to sow the seeds of Spring with lightness and follow the way of the clouds. Clouds go with what is and go with the flow of wind or no wind. They know to let go and float [...]

Easter week we had invited out Jim Solberg to visit our farm and meet us. Jim is a talented photographer and writer for several newspapers. I will share a short section of his time here with you now and how the day un-folded. Tom drove him out in the Farm Truck and I drove the [...]

We’ve been trimming apple trees in the Spring breeze. For marketing purposes-we classify the apples as natural. Spring time is when we apply Organical to the base of the trees. Organical is a product that we purchase through Midwest Bio-Ag and it is listed as an item that’s compatible with heading towards organic certification. Tom was [...]

 Easter eggs are  all colored with marbled marks from vegetable oil co-mingling with dyes. Stickers are affixed to the boughten white egg shells. Tom had hard boiled them. It’s giving the eggs a bath in bowls of colored water.  Hands ladling red water  with a spoon across the hard shells. It’s a beaming Grandma Sharon [...]