I’m going out with a dairy farmer. He’s pretty darn awesome if I say so myself. (And yes, I’m very biased.) I will admit that farming can be suffocatingly romantic […]
10 Life Lessons on Becoming a Farmer and a Wife
Tim Clark isn’t the only “Young Farmer with Old Values.” My name is Danielle (Hammer) Clark and I am a fifth generation farmer. Tim and I were married on June 14 and together we share our […]
Undefeated
Being the only girl in the house is sometimes pretty hard. I used to think that I should just do all the laundry, dishes and sweep the floor by myself. […]
Blessed Despite a Sand Bath
I was driving back to River Falls from my milking job one evening feeling quite irritated. A cow decided she wanted to have a dance party in her stall and […]
Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
From reading my blogs you know I have boys, there is only one girl in the family and that is me. These boys are 100 percent farm raised boys, they […]
How in the Heck Did You End Up Here?
This summer I interned with a cooperative’s agronomy department in western Wisconsin. I always looked forward to farm calls; however, when the growers found out I didn’t grow up on […]
My (Every Other) Thursday Surprise
I anticipate every other Thursday. The dog begins to bark. A red truck pulls into my driveway. A young man gets out and totes a small box into my kitchen. […]
Who Are You?
Growing up I was always Cheri Timm, the daughter of Allen and Jean Timm. Most people knew my parents; it wasn’t until after I moved out of Seymour, the small […]
Making a Farmer Out Of Me
“You’re making a farmer out of me.” I made that remark to my boyfriend when he and I were milking cows at his farm one night a few weeks ago. […]
Selling Out
Back when I was in high school, I was kind of a know-it-all. I had an answer for basically everything (and for the most part that has remained unchanged). Sometimes […]
A Day in the Life of a Summer Intern
Guest Post by Jaylene Lesher, Bernville, PA, A student at Penn State University This summer I had the pleasure of living in America’s Dairyland while interning for Rosy-Lane Holsteins LLC […]
Food: A Lost Art in the U.S.
I admired the crops as our car sped through the countryside, seeing nearly-ripe wheat, rapeseed, corn, pasture and some occasional cows. Food was top of mind during our recent family sojourn […]