Helpers Big and Small
There’s definitely been a lot of those unexpected extras this year leading up to summer harvest. Thankfully, we have wonderful helpers who have been able to assist with the…
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Continuing Lessons
Summer is here! The kids completed their last day of school and have officially reported for summer duty as farm kids. During a recent breakfast conversation, my family sat…
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Opening Our Doors
During certain parts of the year I secretly cringe when someone walks into my house. It’s not that I don’t like visitors; it’s more about what my houseguests might see…
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A World of Octobers
The temperatures have dropped, and it’s truly beginning to feel like fall on the farm. The air feels crisper, the sky seems brighter and everything seems a bit fresher…
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The Next Chapter
What began as a temporary gig to teach journalism courses for the remainder of a school year somehow morphed into 16 years.
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Start of Summer on the Farm
I kissed my husband this morning before he drove out of the yard with a packed cooler and thermos in hand and jokingly said, “See ya later this summer.”
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Fellowship on the Farm
Have you ever had an experience that has left you feeling so refreshed and on a natural high that you just want to bottle it up?
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Hello, It’s Me
“She’s already changed so much in the few short months she’s been with us. I think I’ve changed, too.”
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Here We Go!
It is officially wheat harvest for us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjg9kxIlAs My feelings about harvest this year have been a little different than years past. I wasn’t as anxious about WHEN harvest…
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Apricot Pecan Crisp
Happy summer! We’re going to skip the small talk about where I’ve been for six months and jump straight to today’s post. OK? OK. I currently have an apricot…
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Fertilizing the Wheat
When I was a single gal living in town, I had big plans to have the nicest, greenest yard on the block one summer. We won’t focus on how…
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Three Months Later…
Unless you follow me on Twitter or the blog’s Facebook page, August 22nd was the last time you heard from me. We had started picking corn. It would be the…
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Corn Harvest 2014
Where did the summer go? It seems as if wheat harvest just got done. Oh, wait. It did! Adam texted me yesterday letting me know he was going to…
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Winner, Winner, Wheat for Dinner!
The 2014 Wheat Harvest for Baldwin Farms is officially underway! Between mechanical issues, unripe wheat, rain, and wet fields, there were moments when I wondered if we’d ever see…
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Guessing Games
It’s a guessing game… The 2014 wheat harvest has entered McPherson County, Kansas. Combines are running in fields around the Inman area and the harvest continues to slowly move…
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