Farm News The soil is bone dry. A dust cloud trails the rotovator as we lightly till the soil in preparation for seeding. We have...

Farm News Despite our best attempts to completely unmanage our fruit trees, we have bumper crops of cherries and pears. The grape arbors...

Farm News Cheese making is essentially microbial farming. Most of the cheeses we make employ the exploits of "starter cultures." These...

Farm News As I write this blog post, we are finally getting a much needed thundershower. We were able to get the last bales of first...

Farm News Our first hay cutting is moderately overdue. Blue skies are a hay-makers dream. The grass-alfalfa stand is tall and lush, yet a...

Farm News The saying about goats and fences is that "the only fence that can hold a goat is a fence that can hold water." Yes, it's a bit...

We derive our livelihood from mothers. Every year, every day, we celebrate the goat mothers that give us milk to make our cheese. ...

We have been participating in the ritual of selling our wares at farmers' markets since we launched our farmstead goat dairy-creamery...

Spring has forced its way onto the landscape, despite moody temperature swings, gusty winds and morning frosts. I have been taking our...

Farm News I confess. On the eve of this year's Earth Day, I am not optimistic. The evidence for catastrophic effects from climate change...

Flowers are exploding on the ground and in the trees. Neighbor farmers, tempted by the warm temperatures and perfect soil moisture, broke...

Farm News Our two 100% goat milk bloomy rind cheeses, black goat and fleur de la prairie, have a season. They are best made when the milk...

Farm News The fingernails of winter had grown long, digging themselves into the barren prairie landscape, holding on tenaciously to the...

Guest blog writer: Sophie Seidel, Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery’s General Manager Farm News After spending several weeks with our bucks...

Farm News In less than two weeks, we have had over 50 does kid, 100 kids born and 50 gallons per day of milk in the bulk tank. The rapid...

Farm News For farmstead goat dairies like ours, the new “year” begins in March. As we transitioned from February to March, the weirdly...

The albeit mild winter isn't slowing us down in the creamery. We are making the most of our weekly cow milk deliveries from Kilgus...

Farm News The monochromatic hues of winter persist, yet signs of change are beginning to appear on our windswept prairie landscape....

Farm News We got our first sizable snow storm of the season yesterday. The ground was so warm that the snow flakes melted into the mud...

The most profound gift of 2023 is the arrival of our new cheese maker, Tetyana Dyadechko from Ukraine. She comes to us with nearly a...