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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
May 1, 20205 min read
There by the grace...Farmers' Market Season Starts, Mother's Day Offerings
Farm News- A dose of brutal honesty On the eve of the first farmers’ market of the season, all is NOT normal. The degree of restrictions...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Apr 24, 20203 min read
Annual Earth Day Reflections of A Goat Dairy Farmer
Farm News This week marked the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. As goat farmers and cheese makers, we mark the occasion, not because it...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Apr 16, 20205 min read
The "dried plum" versus "prune" debate explained
This week's blog features a story by my husband, Wes Jarrell, a native Oregonian fruit farmer My dad was born in Illinois, on a farm near...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Apr 9, 20203 min read
The multifocal lens of farmstead dairying in spring
Farm News These days, I often feel like a super-8 hand-held camera filming in time lapse. Early morning texts announce the arrival of...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Mar 27, 20203 min read
Farming while "sheltering in place"
Farm News Sheltering in place on a goat dairy farm in March is a contradiction in terms. For us, March is kidding season, the busiest and...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Mar 6, 20203 min read
Coming out of hibernation
Farm News The ground is starting to thaw. There are only a few patches of snow remaining on the north sides of our barns, hidden from the...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 19, 20195 min read
Does genetics remember home? Holiday Market Offerings, Season Endings
Farm News The time has come for more milk. The demand for our chevre in Chicago has grown such that we could not produce enough to meet...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 12, 20193 min read
A week of lasts, market offerings, farm happenings
Farm News It’s been a quiet slide into our season of repose. No storms to whip through our now unprotected pastures; no goat breakouts...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 5, 20195 min read
Thanksgiving addendum and shutting off the milk faucets
Farm News Thanksgiving is holiday of rituals and traditions; folks who have long ago left behind eating foods that wiggle or come from a...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 27, 20195 min read
Giving thanks on the farm & Farm Happenings
Farm News The approach of the holidays is the calm before the storm. The workload is streamlined to the bare essentials of goat milking...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 21, 20195 min read
Reprieve and time for housekeeping
Farm News Seize the day, a nearly perfect day, for housekeeping. Yes, it had rained yesterday, yes, there are still little mounds of icy...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 15, 20194 min read
Adapting to change, market offerings, farm happenings
Farm News Yes, we farmers obsess about the weather. We derive our livelihoods at the mercy of climatic forces. There is a long history of...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 8, 20194 min read
They grow up so fast, mixing milk in the cheese vat, market offerings and more
Farm News “They grow up so fast;” a well-worn refrain among parents and grandparents alike. In the goat dairy world, the progression from...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 31, 20193 min read
Abrupt end to autumn
Farm News Nothing like a blizzard to punctuate the end of fall. The fall foliage, still vibrant with reds, yellows and oranges, were...
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