The Land

01/10/2025

From My Farmhouse Kitchen: Choices aren't always our making, but decisions are
by Renae B. Vander Schaaf
https://www.thelandonline.com/news/from-my-farmhouse-kitchen-choices-aren-t-always-our-making-but-decisions-are/article_2fd76dc8-ca11-11ef-81f7-479fb00374e8.html

01/06/2025

by Paul Malchow

When you ask a local where Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church is in Gilman, Minn., and they say, “You can’t miss it,” they ain’t lyin’.

12/25/2024

12/18/2024

by Diane DeWitte

Following the discovery of the H5N1 influenza virus in dairy cattle in March, University of Minnesota Extension, working with virus specialists from the College of Veterinary Medicine, put together a

12/16/2024

by Renae B. Vander Schaaf

Pella means a place of refuge — which is what this new home was to the weary immigrants who finally made it to the unsettled prairie in August.

12/12/2024

by Karen Schwaller

The children of the 1960s and ‘70s (and earlier) knew the slow, agonizing wait for a much less-complicated Christmas. We knew because we first had to first wait for the

12/10/2024

People meet pigs at Zachmans' learning farm
by Laura Cole
https://www.thelandonline.com/news/people-meet-pigs-at-zachman-s-learning-farm/article_3d069b64-b674-11ef-9fc7-bb505de41b8f.html

12/04/2024

by Paul Malchow

In Foleyland, the longer you look the more you see.

12/02/2024

Noding proving you don't have to inherit a farm
by Richard Siemers
https://www.thelandonline.com/news/noding-proving-you-don-t-have-to-inherit-a-farm/article_2abd8674-a789-11ef-b484-1bacd7766d46.html

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from The Land!

11/25/2024

Tractor ride to Texas was not a leisurely cruise
by Paul Malchow
https://www.thelandonline.com/news/tractor-ride-to-texas-was-not-a-leisurely-cruise/article_b41ff98c-a78f-11ef-a137-97956f612a1f.html

11/22/2024

by Laura Cole

Growing potato seed is a multi-year process.

11/15/2024

by Whitney Nesse

A neighbor recently commented that I could write a book about all the animals we’ve owned. She is probably right.

11/13/2024

by Laura Cole

Compensating producers for livestock lost to wolves has been a longstanding program managed by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. A relatively new companion program is now entering its seventh round

11/12/2024

by Diane Lochner

I’m going to take the idea of TV dinners in a slightly different direction and provide some recipes sourced from (or loosely related to) various TV shows and movies.

11/07/2024

by Laura Cole

This past summer, Justine Meyer was appointed to the Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District's Board of Supervisors. The appointment was historical as Meyer is the first female supervisor

11/06/2024

by Whitney Nesse

Recently, I found myself driving the back roads of my former stomping grounds in Western Wisconsin.

11/04/2024

by Renae B. Vander Schaaf

A son had purchased some much-needed parts for a combine repair that had been difficult to locate. We lived closer to the where the parts were, so it made more