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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 7, 20215 min read
When Seasonal rituals collide with climate change
Farm News The impacts of climate change have begun to seep into the routine seasonal rituals upon which we have come to rely as cheese...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 30, 20215 min read
Making the next generation and other farm news
Farm News Temperatures in the high eighties-summer’s reluctance to let go. Sunsets at seven-earth’s trip around the sun remains as...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 23, 20215 min read
Equipment as Essential Worker and Other Farm News
Farm News With the yellowing corn stalks and nearly naked soybean stems standing tall in the fields around our farm, we know our neighbor...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 16, 20215 min read
Celebrate the Farm Animals and Their Welfare
Farm News This week, the ASPCA is hosting an online “Farm Animals Awareness Week.” While the ASPCA is most known for their work with...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 9, 20217 min read
Goat retirement-the party and other farm news
Farm news Like all long-time valued employees, they deserve a proper send off when they retire. Tomorrow a group of our older does will...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 2, 20216 min read
fall fruit harvest and the value of farm labor, farm & market offerings this weekend
Farm News The heat and humidity were whisked away, succeeded by a classic September feel. The crisp fall air, coupled with the on-cue...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 26, 20216 min read
Reflections in a cool pond on a hot day, farm bar and farm events, employment opportunities, market
Farm News The halcyon summer days of July have faded into hazy memory. We deluded ourselves into thinking we had dodged the extreme heat...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 19, 20216 min read
Little goat recovery and the power of caprine sisterhood, farm offerings and happenings, job opening
Farm News Certain goats get under your skin. Some are born with bubbling personalities that persist well into adulthood. Others blend...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 12, 20216 min read
The weather as lead actor, farm bar and farm dinners, employment opportunities, market offerings
Farm News The weather is frequently upstaging the weekly goings on at the farm. Yes, we’re in the proverbial “dog days” of august; yes,...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 5, 20215 min read
When goats retire, farm bar and farm dinners, employment opportunities and more..
Farm News The onset of August has us looking ahead toward breeding season. We try to keep emotions to a minimum and let the data be our...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 30, 20214 min read
summer in time lapse, farm bar and farm dinners, market offerings
Farm News The week of mid-summer heat and humidity has been eclipsed by some cooler temps and drier air-the summer is fleeting and the...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 22, 20214 min read
Peaches of my heart, new farm open hours, market offerings
Farm News The heartbreak of empty boughs in recent years has made it hard to have any expectations for a peach crop in our orchard. I was...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 15, 20215 min read
From sweat to sanctuary, resetting the button on agritourism, market offerings
Farm News The many tentacles of the post-pandemic hydra extend in so many directions. As the rains of June and July produced explosions...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 8, 20214 min read
Progressive pasture dining, cow milk cheeses in the vat, farm events
Farm News This is the year of building fences and moving goats. Our adept Amish fence builders arrived at our new farm this week (yes,...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 1, 20215 min read
Experimenting in the cheese vat, cheese for the holiday weekend, farm happenings
Farm News Every once in a while, we get to make something completely new to our cheese repertoire, something that takes me out of my...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jun 24, 20215 min read
Summer solstice stroll, Pelota Roja returns to the cheese lineup and more...
Farm News It is usually mid to late June, around the time of the summer solstice and the waxing full moon, that I find myself able to...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jun 17, 20214 min read
Etiology of a cheese, market and farm offerings
Farm News Sometimes, I get asked about the back story on our cheeses. Some folks want to know where the inspiration of the name comes...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jun 10, 20214 min read
The island got bigger and other farm news
Farm News From a distance, the June blanket of green that coats our landscape evokes lushness, unbridled growth and teaming life. Zoom in...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jun 4, 20215 min read
Baling hay take two, Farmers' Market Offerings, Farm Happenings
Farm News In the early midlife of our farm, we decided to grow our own hay. We were younger, our herd manager was a dairy farm kid, our...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
May 28, 20213 min read
Optimism and a Makeover, Farmers' Market Offerings, Farm Happenings
Farm News The dark cloud of pandemic is lifting, and in it’s retreat, a sense of optimism. We feel it at the farmers’ market as mask...
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