Mom’s in the hospital, so please forgive the short blog post

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Just a week after Mother's Day, I had to rush Mom to the Cook Hospital.  She was suddenly vomiting and her stomach hurt.  As she'd already had two bowel blockages, I was afraid I...

Disturbing National Animal Identification talk now spreading to vegetables in your garden

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Because of lots of public outcry, the NAIS, a government "wonderchild," sponsored largely by large agribusiness type animal/poultry growers, apparently shriveled and came to a standstill last year. The NAIS is basically an animal/poultry...

I’m sorry I haven’t blogged lately

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We've been incredibly busy harvesting this last week. It's been raining hard — off and on — but we still have to get crops in before the first freeze hits. And looking at the...

Hey! Spring’s back

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After a week of back to back blizzards, the sun came out and the temperature climbed to 50 degrees today. It was SO nice. And today my son Bill and his wife,...

We had a busy weekend

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But what's not new, right? On Saturday, we had a visit from the friends in Wisconsin who are going to take over our seed business in August next year. Yep, my knees haven't improved...