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Gracie Weinzierl Pierson

Call Me an Agvocate

PETA released yet another video this week, this time depicting a dairy farm in North Carolina. Whether or not that video was staged is still being debated. Dairy Carrie, a dairy…

Zucchini Pie

Have an abundance of zucchini? Me, too. I ended up with two of these giant zucks, courtesy of my parents’ garden. Using just ONE of these squashes resulted in muffins,…

Recipe: Zucchini Muffins

Last summer, I talked a lot about living in town for school and having a small container garden on my back patio. Since then, I have graduated and moved to…

City Life

The last time you checked in, I had just graduated college and was crashing with my parents while I waited out my job leads. Yep, exciting post-graduation life. Here’s a…

My Summer Reading List

It’s summer! I’m finished with college and still a few weeks before I move and start my new job, so that leaves me with plenty of free time (you know,…

WRDA Rundown

You may have heard that the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) finally passed in Congress this week and is now awaiting the signature of President Obama. And now you’re probably…

Jumping on the Gluten-Free Bandwagon

If you’ve ever had the thrilling opportunity to accompany me to the grocery store, you have probably seen me randomly stop  in the middle of a packed grocery aisle and…

Graduation Realities

I graduated from Illinois State University with my Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Communications and Crop & Soil Science on Saturday. Double major, department honors, university honors, magna cum laude,…

The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done

Growing up, you experience a lot on the farm. Although I grew up surrounded by corn and soybeans, I had an understanding of life and death. We had lots of…

New Beginnings

Happy Easter!! Easter is traditionally the time of new beginnings and signifies the true start of the spring season. Warmer weather is finally upon us, grass has greened, flowers are…