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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 30, 20205 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 22, 20206 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 15, 20206 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 8, 20207 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 2, 20207 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 25, 20206 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 17, 20206 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Sep 11, 20206 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 27, 20205 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Aug 20, 20205 min read
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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...
Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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