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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Mar 16, 20232 min read
The rapid rise of milk
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Mar 3, 20233 min read
A new season begins
Farm News For farmstead goat dairies like ours, the new “year” begins in March. As we transitioned from February to March, the weirdly...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Bringing cheese to market
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Feb 9, 20232 min read
Waning winter days AND Valentine's goat style
Farm News The monochromatic hues of winter persist, yet signs of change are beginning to appear on our windswept prairie landscape....
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jan 26, 20233 min read
Melting the snow and your hearts with goats and cheese
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jan 12, 20232 min read
Welcoming our New Cheese Maker & Doting on the Does
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Make it cheesy in the new year
What a difference a week makes. Last week this time, we were battening down the hatches as the temperature plummeted over 30 degrees, the...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 15, 20226 min read
The closet door as metaphor and HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Farm News As the 2022 season draws to a close and we approach the winter holidays, it’s an apt time for reflection. As I peer through the...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 8, 20226 min read
Working on winter projects
Farm News The color pallet of early December is shades of grey. After an early dose of frigid temperatures, we have settled into what I...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 1, 20225 min read
Embracing the inevitable deceleration
Farm News The sharp drop in milk production, the reluctance to enter the milking parlor, the insatiable appetites for hay, grassy...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 25, 20225 min read
Giving Thanks and Farm Happenings
Farm News Like most of our fellow dairy and livestock farmers, we spent yesterday tending to the goats and making cheese. We did make...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 16, 20227 min read
Dispersing our genetics and holiday food frenzy
Farm News This past Monday, as the frigid winds of seasonal change ushered out the last remnants of our balmy fall, we said goodbye to...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 10, 20225 min read
Something old-something new: the launch of a seasonal cheese
Farm News Sultry November days. T-shirt temperatures and goats still grazing on pasture; October exits with no killing frost. The...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 3, 20226 min read
The tranquility of bred does
Farm News The sun is shining, the air is warming, and the goats are lounging. The pasture grasses are stunted mottled green and brown,...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 27, 20227 min read
Under the microscope: surviving our first third party food safety audit
Farm News Over the past few months, we have been preparing for our cheese plant’s very first 3rd-party food safety audit. While we have...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 20, 20226 min read
Prepping for the killing frost that never came
Farm News A killing frost, a punctuation mark more definitive than a period; an exclamation point really. When nighttime temperatures...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 13, 20226 min read
the seasonality of milk in the fall
Farm News As I have noted many times throughout the years, our milk is seasonal. What does it mean to have a seasonal milk supply and...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 6, 20225 min read
Making the next generation
Farm News The time of year for which our breeding bucks live-breeding season-is upon us. Three of our five eager boys made the trek from...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 29, 20225 min read
Fall Flurry
Farm News Picture-book azure skies, crisp clean air, steam rising off the warm-water pond in the early chilly morning. This past week...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 22, 20225 min read
Bringing back a favorite cheese
Farm news This weekend, we launch our sales of “Moonglo” cheese. This raw goats’ milk “tomme-style” cheese was a staple in our farmstead...
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