Reopening the farm
It has been a difficult spring with unprecedented high rainfall and lingering cold temperatures, but we’re still standing, and we’re...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Apr 7, 20222 min read
It's raining, but it's raining cheese too
Skirting around the puddles in the driveway and the shallow pond that covers the lawn between our house and the barn, I take my daily...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Slow spring emergence
Underneath the thin but never-ending veneer of winter on the prairie, we've been taking some breaks, making some cow milk cheeses and...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 15, 20216 min read
Resilience and Gratitude: Holiday Reflections
Farm News 2021 has been another roller coaster ride of turbulence and calm; a year of struggles and joy; a year of extremes and...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 9, 20216 min read
When an icon visits the farm
Farm News Temple Grandin visited our farm this week. She’s a revolutionary and a visionary in the world of animal welfare, especially...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Dec 2, 20215 min read
The merits of a short supply chain
Farm News As many of our fellow small business owners are ringing their hands in frustrations over desperately-needed back-ordered...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 25, 20215 min read
Pumpkin "pie" for all
Farm News Thanksgiving eve and bellies are full. Cheeses are ladled, flipped, washed and tucked in for the night. Goats are milked and...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 18, 20215 min read
Farming and Thanksgiving: the Tradeoff is Delicious
Farm News As a dairy farmer, we celebrate holidays in between the daily routines of milking the goats, feeding the goats and making...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 11, 20216 min read
Embracing seasonality-Guest Blog Post by Herd Manager Erica Peters
Farm News Seasons change and there is no way to stop them. We embrace seasonality. At the farm, we have it down to a science, even when...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Nov 5, 20216 min read
The relief of a killing frost AND other farm news
Farm News The reprieve from excessive rains finally came this week and the night temperatures dipped into the high 20’s. The early...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 29, 20216 min read
There’s something in the air: breeding season part two
Farm News The farm is soggy. After nearly a week of steady rain, some of it torrential, the ground is squishy under foot; every piece of...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 21, 20216 min read
Why are there so many blue jays?
Farm News Earlier this week, the ground beneath our white oak tree rippled with flashes of blue and white. The loud, new-yorker style...
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Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery
Oct 14, 20215 min read
Dilemma of the lingering tomato vines
Farm News This is the time of year when the trees begin their gradual transformation to winter repose. I can see the slight hints of...
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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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