July 21, 2012 In case you haven’t heard, Iowa, and most of the country, is in the middle of the biggest drought in nearly 25 years (since 1988). Here on the farm, weather conditions are…
July 6, 2012 One of the cookbooks we like to use is The Way To a….Man’s Heart, “The Settlement” Cook Book. The version we have was originally published in 1903 in Milwaukee, WI, in support…
June 28, 2012 Next week we celebrate the birth of our nation. Right here in Urbandale there is an annual parade, carnival, and fireworks. Families will come out to celebrate, not unlike families of the…
June 20, 2012 We are a little ways out from the juicy red tomatoes, striped green cucumbers, bright white onions, or sunny orange pumpkins, but we can still celebrate a bit of early color in…