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Gracie Weinzierl Pierson

Reflections and Resolutions

Happy New Year week 2 of 2018! After all of the excitement of the holidays towards the end of the year, it’s hard to be excited about January. Seriously, what…

A Farm Kid’s Guide to City Life

Sometimes it’s necessary to leave the farm and the small towns (yes, plural) you call home for the opportunities a city has to offer. That could be for college, or…

What Agriculture Means To Me

Happy National Ag Day! Have you ever sat down to think about where you’d be without agriculture? I haven’t, and this is an especially important day to do so. In college,…

Loaded Potato Soup

Hungry for soup but want something more filling? Try this loaded potato soup! I’ve been looking for the *perfect* potato soup recipe with the right ratio of potato:bacon:spice and finally…

Classic Apple Pie

Happy National Pie Day! What’s a better way to celebrate than with the classic apple pie? I had every intention of turning out a couple of pies last night and…

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The Country Christmas Connection

Last month, in the midst of the chaos that was year-end projects at work, finals season for school, and packing for the AgChat Cultivate & Connect Conference in Kansas City,…

Homemade coffeecake

Kathy’s Coffeecake

For as long as I can remember, my mom has made coffeecakes and given them to everyone [friends, family, neighbors, teachers, the school bus driver, her hairdresser, the mailman and…

Garden-fresh tomatoes

Tomayto, Tomahto

Has the Hunt’s “no GMOs in sight” tomato field campaign/subsequent response blown up anyone else’s newsfeed this week? All any of this really is anymore is a marketing tactic (and it’s…

Side-Dressing Corn

It’s now been about six weeks since the corn was planted. Last weekend (May 21 and 22), the farmers side-dressed most of the corn on the farm (I say most…