Prairie Drifter Farm is surely living up to its name this winter.  With another magnificent snow fall, the snow drifts on the farm continue to shift and grow. Some of them are becoming rather impressive.  It is hard to believe that we will be firing up the greenhouse in about 10 days.  However, we will […]

As the temperature and the wind, don’t forget the wind, makes us all recognize that it is truly winter, we will set out to answer the question that we often get from people this time of year.  The question goes something like this . . . So, it must be nice to not have much […]

Garlic is one of our favorite additions to fall meals so this seemed like an appropriate time to pay tribute.  This slideshow shows the cycle of garlic from planting to your plate.  Here are a few fun garlic facts to keep up your trivia sleeve: The psychological term for fear of garlic is alliumphobia. In […]

Last weekend we saw one brief stint of Olympics and all three of us have caught the Olympic spirit.  Abe’s stuffed animals are working hard to master their balance beam routine on his crib rail and the vegetable fields provide no end of feats to master.

No one can argue that summer is truly upon us. The heat of the past two weeks have really kicked things into high gear. We have been irrigating around the clock to keep the plants happy in this summer heat. Most of the plants have responded greatly to the heat and the water. There are […]

My friend Amy said during bad weather, her grandmother would always use the phrase, “someone is getting it somewhere.”  June seems like the month when we are all getting it everywhere.  Meteorologist Paul Huttner at MPR referred to the past 10 days as a June-soon, not referring to it being an early June but rather […]

After getting a little behind on transplanting due to the rainy weather, we are finally caught up after a planting frenzy.  In the last two weeks, all of our tomatoes, peppers, winter squash, first cucumbers, melons, summer squash, and third round brassicas were planted.  We had some great help from a group of students doing […]

Last night we had the opportunity to watch the solar eclipse out in the vegetable fields. Since we did not have any special equipment to watch the eclipse, we used the next best thing . . . Nick’s grandpa’s welding helmet. Nothing too fancy but we were able to watch the eclipse without hurting the […]

As with most things in life, farming has its ups and downs.  One of the ups this weeks was planting all of our onions – about 1800 feet of them!  Abe started the morning of planting with us which was another one of the ups.  One of the many reasons we are choosing to farm […]

At 11:15pm on Sunday evening, our new farm friends arrived.  Fifteen colorful Black Stars, Gold Stars, and Silver-Laced Wyandottes were tucked in to the chicken coop for a rest after their journey from Fresh Air Farm, owned by Marty Primus.  Abe and mom let them out of their poultry crates early on Monday morning and […]