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Does genetics remember home? Holiday Market Offerings, Season Endings
Farm News The time has come for more milk. The demand for our chevre in Chicago has grown such that we could not produce enough to meet...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 19, 20195 min read


A week of lasts, market offerings, farm happenings
Farm News It’s been a quiet slide into our season of repose. No storms to whip through our now unprotected pastures; no goat breakouts...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 12, 20193 min read


Thanksgiving addendum and shutting off the milk faucets
Farm News Thanksgiving is holiday of rituals and traditions; folks who have long ago left behind eating foods that wiggle or come from a...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 5, 20195 min read


Giving thanks on the farm & Farm Happenings
Farm News The approach of the holidays is the calm before the storm. The workload is streamlined to the bare essentials of goat milking...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 27, 20195 min read


Reprieve and time for housekeeping
Farm News Seize the day, a nearly perfect day, for housekeeping. Yes, it had rained yesterday, yes, there are still little mounds of icy...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 21, 20195 min read


Adapting to change, market offerings, farm happenings
Farm News Yes, we farmers obsess about the weather. We derive our livelihoods at the mercy of climatic forces. There is a long history of...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 15, 20194 min read


They grow up so fast, mixing milk in the cheese vat, market offerings and more
Farm News “They grow up so fast;” a well-worn refrain among parents and grandparents alike. In the goat dairy world, the progression from...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 8, 20194 min read


Abrupt end to autumn
Farm News Nothing like a blizzard to punctuate the end of fall. The fall foliage, still vibrant with reds, yellows and oranges, were...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 31, 20193 min read
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