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A Day at Blissful Bee Pastures

  • March 30, 2025
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Two years ago we hosted a maple syruping workshop at our farm, teaching the basics of tapping maple trees and evaporating maple syrup. One of the families that attended this…
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March On The Farm

  • March 5, 2025
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I woke up this morning to 8 inches of snow that fell last night. We ate breakfast, and then I went out to the barn to do chores and see…
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Learning from a Master: My Apprenticeship in Texas

  • March 3, 2025
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Since I was young, I have always wanted to pursue Woodworking as a future career. The problem, however, is that there is no one in our area that has the…
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Raising Hardy Sheep

  • February 20, 2025
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When my dad bought the first sheep for our farm several years ago, we had no idea what we were doing. You can’t, after all, coming from a city background…
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Picking Up The Sheep

  • February 8, 2025
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A few years ago, we had a big brown Katahdin ram that we bought from a farm in Wisconsin. He was a great ram, and he bred every one of…
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Ivar’s Workshop

  • January 23, 2025
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My name is Ivar. I am 14 years old and live on a farm in southern Minnesota with my parents and five siblings. On our farm we raise sheep, chickens,…
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