Rural Living by Perham Focus

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OTTER BERRY FARM ENTERING ITS SECOND SEASON WITH ADDED ATTRACTIONS

TIPS ON CHOOSING & RAISING CHICKENS GROWING HIS DREAMS WDC STUDENT WORKS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE SEED AT A TIME

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Six-year-old Rhett Walker, left, shows off some ripe strawberries at Otter Berry Farm last season. Norah Tusow, right, samples a strawberry at Otter Berry Farm last summer.

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Looking for a new family-friendly farm experience? You oughta try Otter Berry Farm Berry farm near Rush Lake enters its second season with added attractions

MICHAEL JOHNSON mjohnson@perhamfocus.com If you’ve ever bitten into a bright red strawberry that’s been shipped across the country, you know there’s a difference between that and one you’ve just plucked from the plant on a warm June morning. While the first often crunches like an apple, the other melts in your mouth and leaves you with a strawberry mustache to be proud of. If you haven’t experienced the difference, it could be worth a drive to Otter Berry Farm this summer as it enters into its second season of PYO (pick your

own) berries. The farm is located near Rush Lake, between Perham and New York Mills. The folks behind the Otter Berry Farm, Kris and Cordell Huebsch, are two farm kids who grew up, moved away from home, and met each other while going to college in the agricultural field in Montana. Cordell grew up on the century farm where Otter Berry Farm now exists. Kris also grew up on a century farm, in northeast Ohio. Things were looking promising as the two were wed and started a family together. With two little girls growing up fast, Cordell and Kris got the idea to get

into agritourism with a strawberry farm, which threw a wrench into their lives that — so far — they love. “I can’t imagine living any other way,” Kris said of returning to farm life. “It’s peaceful.” On the Huebsch farm, not far from St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Cordell’s great-grandfather started out with a dairy farm, which became a turkey farm. Then he and his father focused on corn and kidney beans before the idea came up to add an operation that could involve the daughters Klara (7) and Isabel (5). They wanted them to take part in farm life.

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Cordell and Kris Huebsch are the owners and operators of Otter Berry Farm near Rush Lake. They are looking forward to new additions to the farm in the coming spring.

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“ We both believe it’s important that people should have a connection to their food.” — Cordell Huebsch “When you grow up in a rural setting you get to grow up in the woods and you have that outdoor space,” Cordell said. “You just want it for your kids. You feel like if you deprive your kids the childhood you had, that you are somehow slighting them.” So they planted strawberry plants in 2016 and were able to invite the public out last summer to pick their own strawberries from a patch of about 1 acre. Seeing kids running up and down the rows and coming back to the office with full buckets and strawberry smiles was reward enough for the Huebsch family. “We both believe it’s important that people should have a connection to their food,” Cordell said. “So providing people an outlet to meet the people that grow their food and see how the food is grown and put their hands and knees in the dirt … it’s just positive all around.” That’s a big part of the farm. It’s a place that allows customers to come see the farmers at work in their element, planting, growing and harvesting the food that you plan to put into your mouth. Through the off-season, Kris shares the struggles of the business on social media, talking about the effort involved in getting that fresh fruit to the point of eating. It’s a lesson they are instilling in their children, along with a work ethic they believe will help the kids in the future. BUMPS IN THE BUSINESS ROAD Of course, part of learning is bumps in the road. That included their raspberry patch, which was planned to be ready for picking in the fall. The problem was once the berries became ripe, yellowjackets (this is Perham territory after all) took over and devoured the fruits. Since the strawberry season is about two weeks long, the couple has had some time this winter to come up with an attack plan on yellowjackets, while inviting the honey bees to stick around. They’ve also been busy placing a 7-foot fence around

the strawberries to keep deer from digging up their investment. “There’s a learning curve with everything,” Kris said. But the two grew up farming and know that the farm is at the mercy of weather, animals and disease at all times. Their plans to diversify are helping them create a farm experience for visitors to enjoy for years to come. And they get to do it in a place that has been kept alive by farming, by their family. 2018 PLANS With a successful first year behind them, the Huebsch family will have about twice as many strawberries to pick from this summer. Cordell explained that strawberries have a four-year life cycle, then they will be tilled under and a cover crop will be planted in their place. But constant new planting means they will always have some to pick. They will continue with raspberries and the pumpkin and squash patch in the fall. Wagon rides, a kids play area and a petting zoo, which includes a “unicorn”, will also be back by popular demand, and it will be even bigger and better with some additions planned. The biggest addition will be one many look for in the farm experience — a corn maze. The couple said they are still planning the design, but it’s expected to cover about 6 acres. So if you’re looking to get lost or just a nice place to take a picnic lunch and enjoy the taste of fresh berries, this place has you covered. “When people come out to pick strawberries, I tell them to eat strawberries while you are there,” Kris said. “I want to see a strawberry mustache when they get back.” The farm is located at 38132 470th Ave, New York Mills, and berries are expected to be ready in mid-June. Look for the Otter Berry Farm sign and follow the people with big red smiles.

Four-year-old Isabel Huebsch and her giant pumpkin at Otter Berry Farm.

Six-year-old Klara Huebsch helps to gather pumpkins in the fall of 2017 at Otter Berry Farm.

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Pick your poultry wisely

Tips on raising a chicken to hug or eat MICHAEL JOHNSON mjohnson@wadenapj.com For many, the first step into a more rural way of life is just a cluck away. Whether you are living in or out of town, depending on your city codes, you could instantly come closer to living off the land by way of the humble chicken. But before you run out and start picking out chicks based on how cute they look in the local feed store, there are some important facts that area chick sellers would have you know first. Here is a look at how to buy, raise and enjoy poultry. KNOW WHAT YOU HOPE TO GET FROM YOUR CHICKENS Are you looking for egg layers? If so, are you hoping for a certain color egg? There is a wide variety of egg-laying chickens, and many area sellers get their birds from Hoover’s Hatchery. Their website lists over 50 varieties to choose from. They

have brown, blue/green or white layers available. Sizes can vary but all provide you with an egg that’s as healthy as the food the birds eat. Locally, some common breeds include Ameraucana, barred rock or Rhode Island red. There are some variations in meat birds, as well. If you are looking for eggs, think about how many eggs you want. During the peak, hens will lay an egg per day. You will need to have a place to keep the eggs or find people to share them with, not a bad problem to have. Some birds are called dual purpose, capable of laying eggs or providing a nice chicken dinner. Some are strictly fastgrowing birds with the purpose of being butchered within six to eight weeks, like the Cornish-cross broiler. If you are just looking for some color to add to your farm or backyard coop, while enjoying some eggs, consider breeds

Chicks show off their fluff in a fish tank at Mark’s Fleet Supply in Perham.

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A flock of hens eat while a watchful rooster stands in the background.

like the Australorp, a calm, friendly dualpurpose bird, or the Cochin, both well bred for cold climates, with great variations in color and feathering. If you decide to go in to a feed store without reading up on birds, find a sales person that knows the breeds. Most can give you great tips on starting out and can provide you with the supplies you need. WHAT DO I NEED TO RAISE A CHICKEN? Brenda Genoch, the chicken lady and bookkeeper at Mark’s Fleet Supply in Perham, said an important first question to consider is whether you want a chicken for a short time or a long time. You might only have a meat bird for eight to 10 weeks, but

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an egg layer can hang out laying eggs for seven years or better. Are you prepared for that? And if you just want a meat bird, are you prepared to butcher and eat that bird, Genoch asks. Once you get the birds, it’s up to you to keep them alive. In the first weeks of a chick’s life, it needs a constant heat source, preferably a heat lamp, according to Kelly Taggart, the bird expert and purchaser/buyer at Fleet Supply in Wadena. “That’s where most people have the problem,” said Taggart. That first week the chick needs a heating source of 100-95 degrees, and the heat lamp allows them to huddle under it for warmth and allows them to step away from the heat to cool off or to get a drink of water nearby. JoAnn Olson, owner and chicken master at Olsons’ Custom Farm Services in Sebeka, Verndale and Staples, has been raising chickens for many years and said that first day when you get those chickens is the most important in giving the birds what they need. She suggests just giving them warm drinking water the first few hours after getting chicks as they need water but need to warm up after spending a day in transit. After that, chicks still need a heat source, with the temperature dropping about 5 degrees every week thereafter for the first month. The birds will need a heat source until they are fully feathered, at that point they can handle the elements quite well. Keeping out drafts also helps keep that temperature steady for the birds, Taggart said.

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A constant source of cold water, starter/grower feed and clean bedding are important for keeping the flock healthy. Taggart said they use wood shavings as bedding, and he recommends that. Many also use straw bedding. In addition to water and feed, some stores offer electrolytes to add to water (Gatorade for chickens). Most feed stores offer medicated or non-medicated chicken feed. Some offer organic feeds, though it’s not as in demand, so you won’t find it everywhere. WHEN SHOULD I GET A CHICKEN? Sellers take orders at the end of winter, with many deliveries planned for the end of March and continuing through the spring and early summer. Olson said broilers can be bought pretty much year-round through the hatchery her business buys from. Many stores can get fresh hatches a week after an order is placed. Smaller orders can be purchased right from the store. Typically chicks are just a day or two old when they make it to the store. Most people try to get their meat birds early in order to avoid butchering in the hottest days of summer and to avoid having their meat birds stressed by high heat. Of course, you should only get your birds when you are able to provide them with what they need to survive.

CAN I HUG MY CHICKEN? A good laying hen can lay up to one egg per day, so it can be hard not to want to give them a hug. Some chickens are friendlier than others, allowing you to hold them or pet them. Some would be perfectly content if you never touched them or even looked at them the wrong way. But there are health risks with touching chickens, especially for children, according to Taggart. They have signage asking people to not touch the chicks as they can spread disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control, live poultry, such as chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys, often carry germs such as Salmonella. After you touch a bird, or anything in the area where birds live and roam, wash your hands so you don’t get sick, the CDC website urges. Young children are more likely to get sick because their immune systems are still developing, and they are more likely to put their fingers or pacifiers and other items into their mouths. Some people who have contact with items, like coops or water dishes, in the area where poultry live can get sick without actually touching one of the birds. Germs on your hands can spread easily to other people or surfaces, which is why it’s important to wash hands immediately with soap and water after

touching poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam. OTHER TIPS If you have a quiet flock, it usually means they are content. If they are squawking, they may be trying to tell you they need something. “They kind of tell you what they need,” Olson said. Chicks should have about a half-square foot per bird in their early days. As the birds get larger, layers will like freedom to roam and broilers can be pretty content with just a couple square feet to themselves, Olson said.

Taggart also mentioned that many people raising broilers will pull feed at night as the birds can keep eating and grow too fast if they have constant access to feed. Olson said the broilers should have their feed pulled at night after the first two weeks. And egg-layers should continue to get starter feed until you see the first eggs, Taggart added. At that point the birds can be switched over to egg-layer feed. Tightening restrictions may mean you’ll have to provide information on where your chicks will be kept. This is being done to track the distribution of birds should a disease break out.

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The rural life I live today it seemed at the time. They is certainly different from may have gone off to make the one I knew growing up. something of themselves And it’s far flung from that and see what else they of the life my parents once could be, but many return knew. to their roots. I can remember waking Why? Well, I asked one early to feed, clean and of these young farmers why, bed the cows each morning after making a life of their before school. Our family’s own, did they come back to dairy farm was the main work the ground and endure income and the work of the added work that seems keeping the cows happy and to come in rural living? keeping the facility and all Why give up the city and equipment operational was weekends at the lake to do Michael Johnson a never-ending job. And the work that never ends? Work hardest work seemed to that may not make you a come on either the hottest or the coldest profit? Work that really takes a lot of faith? days of the year. It came down to wanting to share the While many families I knew took same values with their children that they vacations or spent their weekends in learned when they were children. No, they sweats or pajamas, we had the same work didn’t want to punish their child with to tend to seven days a week. It didn’t back-breaking labor, but they wanted them seem like fun, but we were too busy to to learn about hard work. They also wanted seek out other options and didn’t have them to catch a glimpse of what matters to the money for it anyway. them and why. They wanted them to build For “fun” we even added in other their faith. activities like growing huge gardens for I believe rural living lets me set my the table and for a garden stand by the eyes more firmly on my priorities. No, road. We raised pigs to sell along with I’m not as rural as I once was, but I’m beef, occasionally chickens to butcher. I working on it. I have fewer distractions had ducks for entertainment. the more rural I return. Maybe there Summers we often worked from dark aren’t as many “happenings,” but there is to dark, taking advantage of the pleasant always something to do. Chicken eggs to weather by staying outside nearly all day. be washed and delivered, gardens to be Winters we always kept up on wood plotted, fences to be mended, animals to cutting to heat the house. Almost daily care for, poop to be scooped. we bed down the cows to keep them warm Sharing those things with younger and dry. It seemed like every morning generations — the successes, stresses and something was froze up and needed our failures of making a living by working the attention. And the snow, it always seemed ground — may scare them away for a time. deeper than now. But if they are like me, something about With all the work we were all doing that rural life pulls them back. There’s a you’d think we were a wealthy bunch, freedom, an opportunity and a life to be but the only thing we really had was that had there that has a lot of unknowns. I beautiful farm, our health and cherished know it’s not for everyone, but for some, time together. it’s everything. I share that to say that, time and time again in my life, I hear about farm kids Michael Johnson is a reporter for the that recall all those hard years of growing Wadena Pioneer Journal and Perham Focus. up on the farm. For some reason they He can be reached at mjohnson@wadenapj.com want to return to it. No matter how bad or 218-631-2561

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Growing his dreams

Wadena-Deer Creek student works to change the world, one seed at a time BY PAULA QUAM pquam@dlnewspapers.com Max Junker never imagined he’d feel the most at home in a house that was green—that is, until he started digging around in a greenhouse with a lady they call “Granny Green”. “I’ve always liked camping and hiking and outdoors things, but I was never into farming or growing my own produce,” he said. “But then when I met Granny Green, she kind of sucked me in.”

Granny Green, whose real name is Kathy Connell, is a horticulturist in charge of Wadena-Deer Creek’s greenhouse at the school, a place where students cultivate their knowledge of growing fresh produce. Although Junker was born in Wadena, he’d lived all over parts of Minnesota and Colorado until his family settled back home a few years ago. It was then that his intrigue of food was born. “I remember the first time I planted seeds, they were four different varieties of lettuce,” said Junker. “And I just really enjoyed it; I loved the aspect of growing and selling. I loved to learn all the things I hadn’t even thought of before—it was all fascinating to me.” In addition to the Animal & Plant Science classes that Junker took in the last couple of years, he has also added two independent study classes to his plate his senior year. And as the hours tick away and he tinkers around in that greenhouse while Granny Green sprinkles in her little tidbits of knowledge, he grows his knowledge and his passion. One of the aspects of horticulture that Junker has found himself gravitating toward is the idea of keeping food natural and healthy. “We eat so much junk. A life goal of mine is to grow healthy food without chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers, just all natural,” said Junker. “No GMO seeds, all organic.” But he doesn’t want to stop there. He also wants to help find a way to get that healthy food into the hands and mouths of people who can’t normally afford Horticulture was never in the mind of Wadena student Max Junker, until he started working in the school’s organic food. But Junker knows he’s got greenhouse and learning about food variety, GMOs and organic practices. a long row to hoe. At 18 years

Wadena-Deer Creek Senior Max Junker keeps young strawberry plants covered as they begin to grow for the greenhouse’s big Mother’s Day sale.

old, he intends on putting off college temporarily in favor of participating in a program called WWOO, or Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms. The program places those coming into the industry with a variety of farms across the nation. It’s along the lines of a student exchange, where the student works and learns from different farm owners in exchange for boarding and meals. “I want to be able to see new communities and find ways to help people and change lives,” said Junker, who says he’d like for his first stop to be to an organic farm in Minnesota for a few weeks before heading to Oregon, where he remembers visiting as a kid. “The scenery out there is great, but they’ve also got a lot of stuff going on out

there,” said Junker. “They’ve got these communities coming together and lots of organic growth.” From there, he’s got his green thumb pointed towards southern California where he’s hoping to experience the southern regions of the U.S. “I’m curious about that, but mostly it’s the thrill of trying something new while I’m learning; it’s really being a traveling hippy,” he laughed, adding that when people hear about what he’s got planned, he gets a mixed reaction. “Granny Green tells me ‘You go out there, and you follow your dreams, you can do anything’, and others say ‘it’s not a good idea, just go to college; you’re going to get left behind and live under a bridge’”, he laughed.

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Once he’s traveled from farm to farm for a couple of years, Junker says he’s likely going to take his academics to Central Lakes College in Brainerd, where they offer a program on greenhouse management. “I’d actually like to do exactly what Granny Green does at the school,” said Junker, who says that includes running everything in a greenhouse from A to Z. “And from there maybe work at some orchards before settling down and hopefully having my own business growing produce and expanding on that.” “I’m just so proud,” said Kathy “Granny Green” Connell, her eyes twinkling. “Max just really loves and understands the plants and I think will continue with horticulture one way or another. I’m very proud of Max.”

In the meantime, he’s soaking it all in—the knowledge and the time at home with his own grandma outside of Deer Creek, who also loved growing produce in her day, and with his unofficial grandma, Granny Green. “She doesn’t talk to me like a teacher,” said Junker. “She teaches me things all the time, but we talk about things together, and it feels more like teamwork in the greenhouse.” And from here, Junker plans on taking those seeds of knowledge and letting them germinate. “It’s building up to something bigger,” he said. “I want to make a difference with it, and I really want to help other people learn, too.”

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