Five years ago today, I launched this blog with a post to Facebook that alluded to big things happening in bursts of late night inspiration. Which probably meant I was up to the wee hours fretting over the details of what was "Rural Route 2: The Life & Times of an Illinois Farm Girl". That is how many of these posts over the course of five years happened. In the stillness of the dark night, ...
Flat Aggie Visits a Wheat Farm in Washington
Hi kids, this is Flat Aggie reporting to you from Eastern Washington! I visited a dry land wheat farm near Harrington. Can you find that on a map? When you think of Washington State you may think of lush green forests, tall mountains and lots of water. However, Eastern Washington is quite dry with lots of treeless farmland as far as the eye can see. The eastern part of the state is in a “rain ...
All About Dry Edible Beans
With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities. Use this with Flat Aggie’s visit to the thumb of Michigan and A Little House on the Farm as the family harvest dry edible beans. Classroom Activities & Resources From Illinois Ag in the Classroom: The Bean Book. A printable about the inside of a bean. Click ...
Tour of Arizona Rose Farm
On Woolf Rose Farm near Phoenix, Arizona everything comes up roses. My Farmer and I visited while in Phoenix for the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting. Everyone asked, "Did it smell wonderful?" Actually, no fragrance hung in the air at all. That is because "winter" is the dormant season for roses. Although the colors were bright, the rose perfume was not. ...
How to Borrow a Good Idea
This post is for all the volunteers stuck in the cycle of pancake breakfasts (going 8 years of coordination for me), soup suppers, 5Ks and golf outings. This is for the volunteer who watches another community organization hit a home run with a unique fundraiser that receives a lot of coverage online and in local media. People talk for days about how amazing that was. I've been there, happy for ...
10 Most Fascinating People in Farms & Food: 2016
'Tis the season for lists. I have the Christmas gift list and the dish-to-pass list. Santa is checking his naughty/nice list. Here is year four of another list - The 10 Most Fascinating People in Farms & Food. No research team or committee vetted the folks or situations listed below. Just me, my archived newsfeed and input from My Farmer, which always leads me to ask, "Who would make your ...
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