Last week started with a quick trip to Dallas where I joined fellow advocate and cattle gal, Janice Wolfinger (read about her family’s feedyard at for the love of beef) and several hundred restaurant executives, owners, operators, chefs and food suppliers at MUFSO, the Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators Super Show. With Chipolte’s Scarecrow dominating the food/farm conversation the last few weeks, ...
The Harvest Cloak of Positivity
Since I can’t get my hands on Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, I’ll have to settle for my own version to make it through harvest. Because on the second day, things aren’t going so well. This is not the call a farm wife likes to get, “Come pick me up. My truck’s broke down.” ...
Farm Boy to Cow Boy
My farm boy is finally old enough to join 4-H. As in 8 years old by September 1. As in sit up to the conference table in the conference room at our club’s meeting place, follow an agenda, recite the pledges and make a motion. It is a happy day in our home. ...
You Are Unbelievable!
Last night I attempted to enter my daughter’s bedroom to help her dress for our evening out. Just one step in the door and I stubbed my toe on a rock. My fairy farm princess collects rocks, but only ones that shine. Take note future suitors. Then I tripped over the cord to her karaoke machine, stepped on a Barbie in my fall to her bed which was covered in clothes, both hers and her doll’s. ...
First Day of School
Today is the first day of school. My fairy farm princess is pumped. First grade here she comes. My farm boy . . . not so much. He was up early to tend his fields (i.e. carpets in the kitchen) and worried that his custom baling business would suffer while he was gone. He doesn't really have a custom baling business . . . not yet anyway. ...
Doing Corn
On our farm we keep time in the summer by specific events and activities. Like when the strawberries ripen and we pick twice, sometimes three times a day. Or when the wild blackberries are ready, and we spend early mornings filling buckets in the patch. The county fair, several annual neighborhood cookouts and town festivals help us keep track of our summer days. Perhaps one of the most ...
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