April 19, 2011 In addition to planting and general “getting the farm prepared for Spring” things, the 1900 Farm has already started to see 4-5 classes of school children a week. These classes come out…
April 14, 2011 Sarah Gillespie Huftalen writes in her journal on Tuesday April 3, 1877, that, “it is very muddy.”[1] She goes on to comment, “Mud, Mud, Mud.”[2] The Gillespie family lived in central Iowa…
March 23, 2011 What a winter it has been! We have been busy on the 1900 farm, with visitors coming out to dinner, and creating plans for an exciting new season on the farm. Some…
February 9, 2011 Talk about bridging a gap, with the creation of this blog the 1900 farm is jumping about 100 years. While being planted firmly in the past at Living History Farms in we…