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A Day at Blissful Bee Pastures

  • March 30, 2025
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  • Ivar
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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Field Trip to Seed Savers

  • March 26, 2025
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We took a beautiful two-hour road trip, south on highway 52, and found ourselves at Seed Savers in Decorah, Iowa. As a garden-loving family, this was basically our family’s idea…
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how to get things done

  • March 18, 2025
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  • Becca
What you need to know from these pictures is that cleaning out the chicken coop was Hattie’s idea, one hundred percent. She feeds and waters the chickens each day, so…
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Snow is so fun.

  • March 8, 2025
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l really have nothing more to say than just that. Snow, we have missed you. You make winter so much fun. I told Rory I felt like I had to…
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Sixty-five Years on a Farm

  • March 7, 2025
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My Aunt Annie and Uncle Ed are celebrating sixty-five years of marriage this year. Sixty-five years! And just as notable, they have lived in their farmhouse the whole sixty-five years.…
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Snow Day!

  • March 6, 2025
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Well, we had a great one day of winter. Since we’re going on our second not-actually-all-that-wintery-winter, this forecast for lots of snow and very high winds had us thrilled. I…
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