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Who’s growing your holiday turkey(s)?

Thanksgiving Turkeys – 2017 Edition Here’s what I said last fall: Every fall at about this time, our CSA members and farmers market customers ask us about holiday turkeys. We HAVE grown turkeys for the holidays in the past, but due to a amount finite brooder space (where to put turkeys when we have a… Continue Reading

Routes to Farm Summit at Starved Rock Lodge

Routes to Farm Summit Last week,  Beth, Jack, and I made the short trip to Starved Rock Lodge for the first Routes to Farm Summit  after dropping Duncan at school. It was refreshing to have a farm conference right in our backyard. The lodge is close enough to shuttle back and forth to take care of the animals and… Continue Reading

Small questions –

  Small questions – We live in a world of big intractable problems. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. I want to just put my head down and get on with MY work and take care of MY family… tunnel vision on, world tuned out. But, I have amazing friends…friends that inspire. me. to. lift up… Continue Reading