Embracing the wind down, Final outdoor market and "Goaty Halloween"
Farm News The sun is shining, and the opportunistic flies are buzzing about, taking advantage of the pockets of warm air inside the...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Oct 22, 2020
- 6 min
Bring in the cow milk, market offerings and farm happenings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Oct 15, 2020
- 6 min
When the trees lose their leaves, Market offerings, Farm happenings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Oct 8, 2020
- 7 min
Harvest time in flatland, market offerings and farm happenings
Farm News The combines have been rolling over the wide-open fields, gobbling up dangling soybean pods and leaving behind a fine stubble...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Oct 2, 2020
- 7 min
Full moon over fecundity, Market offerings, Farm Happenings
Full moon over fecundity, market offerings and farm happenings Farm News The bucks’ raisôn d’ètre has finally arrived, coinciding with...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Sep 25, 2020
- 6 min
Amish envy, Market offerings, Farm happenings
Farm News We live less than 50 miles from the Illinois Amish community in Arthur. Over the years, we have collaborated with members of...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Sep 17, 2020
- 6 min
Liberty: a goat life well lived, market & farm offerings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Sep 11, 2020
- 6 min
Preparing for breeding, Market Offerings, Farm Happenings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Sep 4, 2020
- 5 min
Farm reflections on labor day and holiday weekend specials galore
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
Finding beauty in the minutiae, Get Your Victory Cheese On, Farm & Market Offerings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Aug 20, 2020
- 5 min
The ambivalence of august, Victory Cheese in the news, Farm & Market Offerings
Farm News The endless sun-drenched days and the shag carpet of green blanketing the landscape seduce. The perfection of red ripe tomatoes...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Aug 13, 2020
- 5 min
Where are they now? A purple martin update, Support Victory Cheese, Farm & Market Offerings
Farm News The purple martins have been prolific this year. From our vantage points on the ground, it looks like they fledged at least...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Aug 6, 2020
- 5 min
Reflections on a burn pile, New Victory Cheese Box, Farm & Market Offerings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jul 31, 2020
- 5 min
A wetter world? New Victory Cheese Box, Farm & Market Offerings
Farm News The signs of climate change are soaking our clothes this year. According to our state climatologist, central Illinois has...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jul 24, 2020
- 5 min
A world apart, Market & Farm Offerings
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jul 17, 2020
- 4 min
The short migration, raw milk sales, market & farm offerings
Farm News Once kidding season is underway and milking resumes, our breeding bucks are shifted to a “bachelor pad” paddock somewhere far...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jul 9, 2020
- 4 min
Choose your farm steam bath, market offerings, farm open house
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jul 1, 2020
- 4 min
Dependence on Independence Day, Holiday Market Offerings and Farm Open House Details
Farm News A few years ago, I celebrated Independence Day by reflecting on our dependence as a small farm. Despite the independent nature...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jun 26, 2020
- 5 min
The making of a silvopasture, Market Offerings and Farm Open Hours
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...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
On to Cheese Victory, Market Offerings and Father's Day Farm Open House
Farm News Amidst the flurry of overdue outdoor farm projects, this week was all about packing boxes; “Victory Cheese” boxes filled with...
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