Farm News I am obsessed with making mixed milk dairy products. The rich, fatty & buttery jersey milk combined with the clean, white and...

Farm News The sun is shining, and the opportunistic flies are buzzing about, taking advantage of the pockets of warm air inside the...

Farm News There’s a finiteness to a goat’s lactation. Our girls have been putting it out twice a day since early March and based on the...

Farm News There has been an abruptness to the onset of color in the tree leaves this year. The greens faded to 70’s era golden yellow and...

Farm News The combines have been rolling over the wide-open fields, gobbling up dangling soybean pods and leaving behind a fine stubble...

Full moon over fecundity, market offerings and farm happenings Farm News The bucks’ raisôn d’ètre has finally arrived, coinciding with...

Farm News We live less than 50 miles from the Illinois Amish community in Arthur. Over the years, we have collaborated with members of...

Farm News This week we lost our beloved Liberty, our senior citizen goat. She was the longest-lived goat on the farm. At the astonishing...

Farm News The heat and the drought finally gave way to some much needed rain this past week. While our fiery red sunsets bear witness to...

Farm News As we approach the “Labor Day” holiday weekend, I’ve been thinking hard about labor and our collective sense of work in the...

Farm News There’s an upside to our inevitable late-summer declines in milk production: I can slow my pace and take time to observe. I can...

Farm News The endless sun-drenched days and the shag carpet of green blanketing the landscape seduce. The perfection of red ripe tomatoes...

Farm News The purple martins have been prolific this year. From our vantage points on the ground, it looks like they fledged at least...

Farm News In the long (even not so long) life of a farm, change is inevitable. Your first design for no-waste hay feeders slowly became...

Farm News The signs of climate change are soaking our clothes this year. According to our state climatologist, central Illinois has...

Farm News My days are tightly programed. From the moment I open my eyes in the early morning to the time I drag myself to bed, my...

Farm News Once kidding season is underway and milking resumes, our breeding bucks are shifted to a “bachelor pad” paddock somewhere far...

Farm News July. When you open the door in the early morning, and you’re hit by a wall of humidity. July. When the windmill comes to a...

Farm News A few years ago, I celebrated Independence Day by reflecting on our dependence as a small farm. Despite the independent nature...

Farm News A hair-brained dream, nearly 30 years in the making, is literally taking root on our farm. As a young, wide-eyed doctoral...