The Herd Blog at Prairie Fruits Farm & 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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