August 24, 2011 If you haven’t heard by now, we celebrated the Iowa State Fair this past week. The 10 day long event brings visitors from all over the world who come to see the…
July 26, 2011 Before I tell you about the cream, I want to let you know that the 1900 farm picked our first tomato today. It was eaten right out of the garden, and it…
May 17, 2011 We are well into the swing of things now at the 1900 farm, but I wanted to take a minute and show a few updates from previous posts. I am happy to…
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…