Country Acres 2019 - October 4 edition by Star Publications

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Megan Broich leads three of her four horses (from left) – Kix, Sadie and Jenny – Aug. 17 at her home north of Sauk Centre.

Megan Broich sets new personal best with horses at state competition By BEN SONNEK Staff Writer

SAUK CENTRE – Megan Broich, 11, and her horses impressed the judges and won first place Aug. 1 at the Stearns County Fair in Sauk Centre. Her next competition took her to the state level; while too young to compete in the Minnesota State 4-H horse show, Megan qualified for the Western Saddle Clubs Association (WSCA) State Championship Show Sept. 18-23 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. Megan had been to the WSCA State Championship once before in 2018, winning two ribbons. This year, she brought home eight ribbons – five with her horse, Jenny, and three with her horse, Kix. “The WSCA Champ Show was

very successful,” said Kristin Broich, Megan’s mother. “(There were) very late nights and early mornings, some with only four hours of sleep. Both horses competed very well, and Megan rode extremely well and memorized all of her patterns.” Megan competed against several hundred other riders from around the state, by Kristin’s estimate. On show days, Megan needed to get up around 5 a.m. to let the horses out of their stalls, feed them and exercise them before the show’s 7 a.m. start. As her horses are less used to being kept in stalls, special care had to be taken to ensure they did not get swollen ankles. Overall, Megan was very happy with their behavior in and out of competition; Kix was a little nervous at his first event, but he soon settled in. For the competition, Megan rode

her faster horse, Kix, for the barrels, both the horse’s and the rider’s techjump figure eight, key race, poles, pen- niques are judged. nant race and a group riding event with Appearance was also a factor in three other riders, while she used Jen- the competition; for Jenny’s compeny for showmanship, pleasure riding, horsemanship, English Pleasure and BROICH English equitation – an event in which continued on page 2

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Megan Broich gives a hug to her horse, Kix, Aug. 17 at her home north of Sauk Centre.

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BROICH continued from front titions, Megan needed four different outfits for showmanship, the English riding division, Western pleasure and Western showmanship. Jenny also had her mane braided, and when it was undone after the show, Megan and Kirsten both thought it looked funny. “(Jenny) looks like she got electrocuted,” Megan said. One of Megan’s favorite parts of the competition is the chance to get together with fellow horse enthusiasts, whether they have been friends for a while or if they are meeting for the first time. Megan has worked with horses for about five years, and she has two more at home: Sadie and Bo. She can tell her four horses apart by just their personalities. “Jenny is really sweet and kind,” Megan said. “She likes to do English a lot. Kix is sometimes a sasspants; he’s funny, likes to go fast and loves to lick everything. Sadie is sometimes sassy and she likes trail riding. Bo is kind to the other

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Megan Broich rides her horse, Jenny, with her parents Kristin and Todd Broich Aug. 17 at their home north of Sauk Centre.

horses and he loves kids; he’s pretty easy to work with.” Megan’s love of horses runs in the family. Her grandmother, Joyce McCoy, grew up with horses; she got more

horses after she married, starting with a Shetland pony named Moonlight. Kristin and her sisters rode these horses at 4-H competitions in Yellow Medicine County. They also went on to compete

at the state level. When the Broich family moved to their current home north of Sauk Centre about eight years ago, they brought along a young horse and a trail horse that were both previously owned by McCoy. Megan was first on the back of a horse when she was 2 years old; at 6, she was more interested in riding them and started showing them in competitions at 8. “That’s when we started to get the horses here,” Kristin said. “We’ve had to train every horse we’ve had, then sell them and then buy another horse. We can’t just go out and buy horses; it’s expensive.” Megan’s siblings – Hunter, 13, and Miley, 8 – are both riders, as well. Hunter rode more before his horse died, and now he drives four-wheelers. Miley is starting to compete in slower horse PHOTO SUBMITTED events, building up to In her English riding gear, Megan Broich shows off some of the ribbons she won with her horse, Jenny, bigger competitions. At every show, riders Sept. 20 during the Western Saddle Clubs Association State Championship Show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. have to memorize three

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different patterns, between five and 15 moves apiece, for each of three or four events. Competitors do not know what the patterns are until the day of the event – sometimes only minutes before the competition begins. To help get the moves down, Megan brings obstacle cones so she can practice the patterns ahead of time. “If I get it wrong, then I have to start again in the practice,” Megan said. “The horses get confused sometimes.” There is also plenty of practice space at home; the Broichs have a small pasture and paddock and two riding arenas, one of them a small enclosure for new horses. Megan usually practices riding for about two hours for three days a week, weather and schedule permitting, from April through October. She also likes to ride the horses for fun, but

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Friday, October 4, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 3 BROICH continued from page 2 sometimes she gives them a well-earned break for a while. “Horses are like athletes,” Kristin said. “They need to recover. After the fair, we gave them five days off because they did a lot of standing.” Megan, though, does not get as much time off; as this year’s competition season closes, basketball and volleyball start up for her again. She plans to work on her riding posture before next year’s competition, when she

will be moving up into junior-level competition. Megan is proud of how well her horses have done so far and cannot pick a favorite between them. She hopes to keep working with them for a while, and is by no means ready to ride off into the sunset.

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Megan Broich rides Kix in competition Aug. 1 in the 4-H horse show at the Stearns County Fair in Sauk Centre.

Megan Broich’s WSCA State Championship Show awards

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Megan Broich (left) and her sister, Miley, get Kix ready for competition Sept. 21 during the Western Saddle Clubs Association State Championship Show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul.

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Continuing a home and heritage By HERMAN LENSING Staff Writer

SUNBURG – Lee Roisum always knew he would come back to Minnesota. Even as he sang in some of the classic operas in Rome, Tokyo and New York City, he was always coming back to central Minnesota, and a farm between Kerkhoven and Sunburg. “I was in New York City for over 40 years,” he said. “While pursuing my musical studies in NYC I also worked as a cab driver, mover and street vendor, but I love to be on this farm.” That it is his family’s farm is further enhanced by the fact that some of his great-grandparents’ children are buried on the farm. “They are buried near the dugout, where my great-grandparents first lived,” said Lee. The Roisums have lived in the area since the 1860s. Remembering where he is from, and the family heritage, is obvious in almost every part of the farm. The house, the barn, a restored tractor, even an outhouse all

have some connection to the family. The house was built in 1885 by Lee’s great-grandparents. While there were some changes and modifications over the 134 years since its construction, it has remained a Roisum home. “Every generation added something,” said Carol, Lee’s wife. “Improvements were made by the grandparents, who added electricity and plumbing. They also enclosed two porches.” Inside the house the sense of a family heirloom remains. Walls are covered with photographs for the family going back to the 1800s, including a photograph of the church in Norway where his grandmother used to attend services. “Here is the form she had to fill out at Ellis Island when she came from Norway,” said Carol, pointing to a framed page from a register book. Lee and Carol obtained the farm shortly after Lee’s brother, Dwain’s, death in 2001. They moved to the farm six years ago. The farm was where he, Dwain and their sister, Marit Elliott, grew-up. Elliott has be-

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Lee and Carol Roisum have sung on opera stages around the world, and music is a key part of their home’s décor. Lee is still pursuing his musical studies with weekly piano, violin and guitar lessons.

come known as the major influence in theatrical productions in the Melrose area. At the time they purchased it, the Roisums knew that at some point they would move to and live on the farm – and they were also interested in restoring the look to an earlier era. Lee had

the great fortune to have a friend who was a master carpenter and builder – Donny Lottman also known as “Lucky” – who was able and willing to help them create and add to their vision of returning and restoring the farm to an earlier time. “We would work on it while we came out from

New York,” said Carol. “It was a process.” The process actually got started a bit sooner than they anticipated. On one visit back from New York, they came into the house to find water on the main floor – and almost everywhere else. “Water [was] running from the second floor to

the first, all the way to the basement. We had just done those floors,” said Carol. What she meant was they had restored the wood flooring. This was not an easy process and involved stripping the ROISUM continued on page 6

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floor and then varnishing it. “Donny had stripped and planed all the boards in the upstairs bathroom and bedroom,” she said. “Lee and I put on four coats of finish but did not sand in between and it was still kind of rough.” They had to leave the project to go back to their jobs in New York; both sang opera. While they were gone, Lottman came to the rescue and re-did the finish – smooth and beautiful, just what they wanted. “After that we said, ‘I think we need to let Donny do it (renovations),” said Carol. The renovations involved removing paneling, wallpaper – sometimes eight layers of it – taking off added ceilings, which exposed original plaster, or wood ceilings, and finding doors that fit in with the history and décor of the house. Always though, it seemed like there was work to be done on floors. They had to be stripped, sanded, planed and varnished. Restoring the kitchen floor presented a challenge to patience. “Lee’s bachelor uncles had lived here at one time,” said Carol. “The wood floor was covered with linoleum, probably due to years of wear and tear on the wood.”

Once again it was Lottman who found a way to bring the floor back to the way they wanted. “It wasn’t really linoleum,” said Lottman. “It was a heavy, thick tile. The only way to get it off was to heat it. We could do about six inches at a time.” Carol had also decorated the interior with cabinets and furniture that reflect the 1800s. Antique lighting fixtures have been found, purchased and put to use. An inoperative crank-style phone hangs on the wall and there is even a sink to help remind of a time when there was no indoor plumbing. “That’s right where the hand pump used to be,” said Carol. The sink looks like a water basin. It sits not in the cabinet, but on top of it, and a drain allows the water to flow away. Whenever possible, trim, lumber door frames and doors from the 1800s were salvaged and brought into the house by Lottman. Over the years the family had made changes. Some walls were removed to create larger rooms. The porch was covered to create other rooms. One thing that has remained is a unique footing in the basement. “There is a tree trunk holding up the house,”

Built in 1885, the Roisum house has housed five generations of Roisums and is part of the heritage of the next. Throughout the years, changes were made to create a walkway to the garage. The building also serves as a starting point for family histories.

said Lottman. “That’s not the first time I saw that.” That log remains, and so does the sense that it is a house of a family. Carol points out a small bedroom in one area of the house. “That is where Lee’s father and his brothers and sister were born,” said Carol. A sense of family and heritage, continues in the converted pig barn on the farm, dubbed by Carol as “a man-cave.” The paneled man cave features pictures of the family, deer mounts, plaques and artwork. There were family contributions made to the room.

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“Carol did the decorating,” said Lee. Lee initially also claimed credit for the deer mounts, but then admitted they were from hunts by his nephews. Carol likes the room for singing. “It has wonderful acoustics,” she said. “Donny did a great job here.” “We sing his praises every day,” said Lee. “In this room he created something from nothing.” Actually not from nothing, but clearly from a building most people would have taken down. The three-sided pig barn, built in the 1970s by Lee’s uncles, had all but collapsed. “There was a twofoot sag on the open end,” said Lottman. “There were no nails left in the (rafter) beams. They had been eaten away.” With proper bracing and refastening of the rafters the building stabilized. The cement area outside the shed, where pigs used to run, is now the “pig porch patio,” said Carol. Fittingly enough, one of the exits from the man-cave is a “Mister Ed door,” according to Carol. The door has a top and bottom half that open separately, similar to the door in the “Mr. Ed” television

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“They take a lot of work, but are worth it,” said Carol. “I’m out here almost every day.” The décor and restoration of the house, the decorations of the mancave, are all a tribute to the family and their connection with the land. Not really apparent are mementos of the fact that both Lee and Carol sang opera. On a wall outside the man-cave hang posters from productions, and locales where they performed. Operas such as “Wil-

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Le Feuvre family milks Jerseys on the Island of Jersey By JERRY NELSON Staff Writer

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Feuvres must compete for land with farmers who grow Jersey Royal potatoes, the island’s largest agricultural export. The Le Feuvres often purchase waste raw Jersey Royal potatoes that they blend into their TMR. The Le Feuvres sell their milk to Jersey Dairy, a farmer-owned cooperative which is the island’s sole milk processor. Jersey Dairy buys milk under a quota system that includes incentives for

dairy farmers to calve year-round. “Jersey Dairy supplies all of the island’s dairy needs and exports the excess,” Le Feuvre said. “The butter is especially prized because it’s a niche product that was made on Jersey from milk that came from Jersey cows. Most of our exports go to the UK, but we also have some very good LE FEUVRE continued on page 10

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and there were no trees. I thought ‘what did we get into?’” Allen suggested they get in his pickup and he took them for a ride around the 1,300-acre property. Their first stop was Buffalo Run, a straight drop-off from a very high hill, said to be a place where Native Americans would run the bison over it during a hunt. “He drove up to the edge and pointed out, ‘there’s a buck, there’s a buck and there’s a buck,’” Scott said. “We were trying to see them. There were all these gullies and valleys and the deer would bed

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St. Cloud 844-262-2281 Willmar 877-484-3211 CA-Oct4-1B-WS

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