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Mallory White, 10, runs a business where she sells eggs to local friends and family near St. Cloud. White has been running the business for two years and manages all the income and expenses.
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Homeschool with ag, financial twist By DANNA SABOLIK Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD – Mallory White spends her mornings collecting eggs from her family’s laying hens on their hobby farm near St. Cloud. “I like the eggs and chickens, but I also like the money they make me,” said Mallory, 10. Mallory, daughter of Clay and Rebecca White, has been running an egg business for the past two years. She raises laying hens in a backyard coop and sells the eggs to friends and family in the St. Cloud community. When the Whites got seven chicks three years ago, they had enough eggs for their family of three to eat. Soon, friends and family were interested and Rebecca thought it would be a good
opportunity to teach her daughter about managing money. “I like working with Crown Financial Ministries and Dave Ramsey says something that I agree with, about how we’ve done our children a disservice by not teaching them how to manage money throughout their childhood,” Rebecca said. Mallory grew fond of the chickens and Rebecca decided with her interest and local demand, it could be a great project for her daughter. “We utilize [Ramsey’s] resources so we can teach the concept that we live in a society that functions on money,” Rebecca said. “So, the sooner we learn to manage that, the better.” Ramsey suggests small businesses like lawn care or babysitting, but with the chickens at hand, that was the route the Whites chose to pursue. “I have to manage all the money,” Mallory said. “I have a jar in the house where I put money for feed costs and then I have a long-term savings, shortterm savings, church and spending jars.” It is Mallory’s job to pick all the
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Mallory White’s first laying hen hatches from its egg in early March. Mallory, 10, now manages all the laying hens on the Whites’ hobby farm and runs a business with egg sales.
“In elementary school we work toeggs, but she has assistance with heavy waterers and feed pails. She does feed ward knowledge goals,” Rebecca said. “It’s not an accredited class, but she acthem greens when she can, however. Mallory is homeschooled by her complishes addition and profit and loss mom and has used this money managWHITE ing project to advance her knowledge in continued on page 2 the classroom as well.
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WHITE continued from front concepts. In her fourth grade math class right now, they’re dividing and adding and starting some algebra.” Mallory is also accomplishing marketing goals, by obtaining new customers, and social relations, by taking care of those customers. “My latest customers are from my parents’ gym,” Mallory said. “There’s a fridge that I keep stocked and a jar for people to leave money. It’s just an honor system.” Right now, Mallory’s eggs are in high demand. “We can’t produce enough,” Rebecca said. “Between the gym and homeschool co-op, we also sell eggs at the pregnancy resource center when she volunteers.” The Whites have
a honey bee business, White Tree Honey Farm, which Mallory helps with. “We implant lessons on ecology, physics and plant science as she assists in monitoring bee health,” Rebecca said. “We are currently extracting honey so that allows physics lessons. She also helps at the farmers’ markets and learns to interact with all age groups.” Recently, Mallory saw her work pay off and saved enough money to purchase a bike. It cost $153 and took her a month and a half to save for. “I’m proud of that but it is difficult [to save],” Mallory said. “I’m busy with gymnastics and soccer, too, so it’s also about time man-
agement.” Rebecca is proud to teach her daughter with not only knowledge goals, but also lifelong skills like money management. “It’s a great way to allow her to make her own money,” she said. “You have to start somewhere.”
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Right: Mallory White wears her new egg apron Feb. 28 at her home near St. Cloud. The pockets are the perfect size for collecting eggs. PHOTO BY DANNA SABOLIK
Below: Mallory White goes inside the chicken coop to collect eggs every day. Her parents, Clay and Rebecca White, help with feeding and watering, but Mallory is responsible for other management aspects of the egg business.
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From Chicago to Long Prairie Marcoulliers rich in butchering history By DIANE LEUKAM Staff Writer LONG PRAIRIE – When the Marcoulliers gather around the table in their Long Prairie homes, the conversation often turns to a familiar topic: butchers. Jerome and Arlene Marcoullier and their son, Matthew, spoke July 29 about people they hold dear to this day, all of it intertwined with the rich ethnic experiences of life owning a butcher shop on the south side of Chicago. They brought out a family tree that depicts 10 generations of Marcoulliers that originated in France. “I have the family tree all the way back to Pierre; I’m the 10th generation of Marcoulliers on the tree,” Matthew said. Pierre’s family first settled in the French Canadian province of Quebec in 1762. Pierre’s son, also Pierre, was an appateur, or a surveyor who worked for the government mapping out parcels of land. When asked, Jerome could not say precisely when the Marcoulliers began coming to the United States. “I don’t know...they just
drifted in,” he said. “There was a lot of them and they had a lot of kids.” One of those kids was Jerome’s grandfather, Henry, who had learned the trade of butchering from his father, Joseph. Henry settled in the paper mill town of Niagara, Wis., and opened a meat shop in 1919. He bought the cattle for butchering live, on the hoof. “When he was in Niagara he could tell what the cattle weighed just by looking at them,” Jerome said. “He’d be one or two pounds off. He could tell if they were feeding them a lot of wet hay. He would say ‘I’m taking 50 pounds off because you have a belly full of wet hay.’” Henry’s son, Clarence, followed suit, and moved to Chicago in 1937. He opened his own shop in 1950 on Escanaba Avenue, simply named “Clarence’s.” Jerome remembers his father purchasing the beef in packing plants, and he often tagged along. “In Chicago there were a lot of small stores that sold meat so there were a lot of packers,” Jerome said. “You would go into different places and they would say ‘hey Clarence, we’ve got a nice one for you, you’re going to like that one’ and they’d point
to a steer that was hanging there. They knew what he was looking for.” As a boy, Jerome began learning the trade from his father. “I had a knife in my hand from when I was about 8 years old,” he said. “My dad, when he handed me a knife, said ‘the first thing I’m going to tell you, is never cut toward yourself. Cut away from yourself all the time.’” When Jerome came home from school, Clarence would always have work ready for him. “He’d give me the neck bones to clean all the meat off so we wouldn’t have to throw any of the meat,” Jerome said. “It was painstaking, slow work, but I got real good at trimming and cutting meat.” By the time he was 12 years old, Jerome was able to cut a half beef by himself, knowing all the proper cuts. Throughout those years, Clarence became well loved by all his customers and everyone in the neighborhood. It was a shock when he passed unexpectedly at the age of 58. By then, Jerome was married to Arlene, and they had two
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Jerome Marcoullier cuts steaks by hand in the early 1970s at Clarence’s butcher shop on Escanaba Avenue on the south side of Chicago. After Clarence passed away unexpectedly at the age of 58, Jerome and Arlene Marcoullier owned the store from 1969-75 before moving to Long Prairie.
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Friday, September 6, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 5 MARCOULLIER continued from page 4 children, Mary and Matthew. Matthew was very young but has heard so many touching stories throughout his lifetime about his grandfather – stories he holds dear. “People said it was the biggest funeral they ever saw,” Matthew said, a hint of tears in his eyes so many years later. “In the historical south Chicago page on FB they [are still] talking about how much people liked him.” Clarence was well known for his Polish, Italian and smoked sausage. “When his dad had his butcher shop in Escanaba, they would make sausage on Wednesday nights, hundreds of pounds of sausage,” Arlene said. “They had their own smokehouse and
the people would come, smelling that stuff on Thursday morning cooking, and wait for it to come out of the smokehouse.” People came from Indiana and Wisconsin and bought 30 or 40 pounds at a time. “Jerome still remembers the sausage recipe and he taught it to Matthew, and now he’s making the most wonderful lunch meat and summer sausage, and his deer sausage is out of this world,” Arlene said. The neighborhood in Chicago where Clarence’s was located was a mixture of Serbian and Croatian immigrants, who hated each other at first but later got along very well. Their differences actually helped sell sausage at Clarence’s.“The Croatians were
Catholics and the Serbians were Orthodox,” Matthew said. “Their holidays of Christmas and Easter were always two weeks apart, so the sausage was divvied up between the holidays. Clarence’s had two Christmases and two Easters because of the different religions in the neighborhood.” When Clarence passed, Jerome took on a new role. “I knew everything about the store, everything he did and how to make the sausage, and how to smoke the meat, so I just took over,” he said. “Nothing changed … well, my dad died.” His mother, Helen, contin-
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Above: Jerome (left) and Matthew Marcoullier stand in a cooler July 29 in the basement of Matthew’s Long Prairie home. Forequarters of beef are hung on the bottom rail and hind quarters on the top, so that two animals can age at one time. PHOTO SUBMITTED
Left: Siblings Mary and Matthew Marcoullier spread sawdust on a large maple butcher block in the early 70s at Clarence’s butcher shop in Chicago. The sawdust absorbed grease so that the butcher block could be scraped and cleaned each day.
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Page 6 • Country Acres - Friday, September 6, 2019 MARCOULLIER continued from page 5 thing. ‘Your ham has been hanging in the smokehouse for how many weeks.’ I brought it out of the cooler and he said, ‘Oh that’s wonderful! Keep it in until Christmas!’ Matthew and Mary helped at the store, too. One of their first jobs was to cover the large maple butcher block with sawdust every day. The sawdust would soak up the animal fat so it could be scraped off and cleaned. Matthew remembers his first meat-cutting job. “Dad gave me some meat to cut up on an old meat block in the back room,” Matthew said. “He told me ‘whatever you do, don’t cut toward yourself, don’t cut yourself.’ What’s the first thing I do? Cut my finger.” Jerome and Arlene ran Clarence’s from 1969-75, but the time had come for the Marcoulliers to leave Chicago and make their way to Minnesota, settling on the farm near Long Prairie. Though Jerome enjoyed and cherished the butcher business, he had other plans. “I wanted to get a farm,” he said. “I didn’t want to be indoors all the PHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAM time. I like cattle but I want Aidan (left) and Matthew Marcoullier unroll an elaborate family tree depicting 10 generations of the the cattle walking around.” The Marcoulliers ran Marcoullier family, July 29 at their home in Long Prairie. Matthew is the 10th generation of the family a dairy farm and continued which emigrated to Canada from France in 1762, and into the United States in the early 1900s. to butcher their own aniued to live upstairs and help in the store, running the cash register and helping with the sausage. “When my dad was alive she’d peel the garlic – you use a lot of garlic in Polish sausage,” Jerome said. “She would wash the casings and get them all untangled for us. When my dad died she kept helping me.” During Jerome’s time running the shop in Chicago, instead of buying
on the hoof or in the packing plant, he paid to have someone purchase the meat for him and deliver it to the shop, where he did the cutting. “I always cut for people right in front of them,” he said. “I’d bring out the loin and put the knife on it and say ‘how thick do you want it? Then I’d cut and saw it.” One year, a Croatian wanted a ham like he had in Europe, the “old coun-
try,” where they would have chimneys that were very wide with doors higher up. Inside those doors they would hang their meat to preserve it. The meat would get black and shriveled, but they liked it that way. Jerome was smoking a ham for the guy but had forgotten about it. When the guy came in the store, Jerome was nervous. He told his customer, “I have to tell you some-
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Jerome Marcoullier poses for a photo with a beef hanging on butchering day in 2016 on the farm near Long Prairie.
mals there. Matthew joined the Marines, being honorably discharged in 1991, when he took over the farm. Now, he and his wife, Aidan, are raising their family of 10 children there. They also raise 50 head of beef and Matthew continues the family legacy of butchering, in a shop in the lower level of the home he and Jerome built. On butchering day, the whole family gets involved. “I’ll be pushing the meat into the grinder, he (Jerome) will be handling the bags on the horn, somebody will be weighing,
closing and carrying them to the freezer,” Matthew said. “We’ll make a nice assembly line with whoever is available.” Matthew still asks Jerome for tips and to share his knowledge of butchering. “Nobody rolls a rump anymore,” Jerome said. “It makes a real good roast.” Matthew knows there is always something more to learn. “I remember in Chicago watching him roll rumps all the time,” he said. “You have to tie it with the string, but I’ve never done it; I guess I should have him teach me…”
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Jinton hails from Sweden, and sings a song that calls the cows. Weird, I know, but if you read about the background of it, it makes sense. Jinton’s music is called kulning, a vocal art form that was used for centuries. In the evening, the women would sing a high-pitched song to call their cattle home for the night. In the mountains, the technique creates a unique sound that can be heard for long distances and the cattle respond, coming home to their home farm, cowbells tinkling as they walked. Families would each have their own song, recognized by the different herds. This beautiful music is very soulful and ancient sounding, and a little sad. As an artist, photographer, filmmaker and singer, Jinton has an interesting story. After living in the city, she moved in 2010 to a remote village in northern Sweden where 12 generations of her family had lived – population 10.
front yard near the house. Sacrificing the tree, no one attempted to get in its way, for safety’s sake. Finally, Dad was able to get the bull back in the cow yard using the tractor. Needless to say, it was on the very next truck out of there. It seemed that most of the bulls on the farm were shipped at the first sign of aggression, just because they can become so dangerous so quickly. There are other bull stories I could tell but space doesn’t allow them all. Let’s just say I am glad not to have to worry about these animals in my daily life. I have no personal experience with any other breed than Holsteins, so I have no idea what the temperament of the Black Angus in last week’s adventure was. He might have been as mild as they come … or not. I am glad he is back home in his own pasture, and I make no judgements about him or his owner in any way. I have no idea how he got out and do not need to know – I am just thankful no one was hurt. And thanks to him, I took a little trip down memory lane.” I am confident some of you will take a trip down memory lane as well. So sit back, relax and enjoy this issue of Country Acres until the cows come home!
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If you want to learn more about kulning, you can go to Youtube and search “Kulning – Ancient Swedish herdingcall.” I often write of my days growing up on a dairy farm. Here, I will share an excerpt of a column that ran in the Sauk Centre Herald Aug. 22. It sort of fits our cattle theme here, and was titled, “Bull on Memory Lane.” The week before, a bull had been wandering on the shoulder of the freeway near Sauk Centre. Eventually, it was returned safely to its home with no one injured, thankfully. Sometimes animals escape, and it is something no one takes lightly: “…I willingly admit I am afraid of bulls. Especially Holstein bulls, which is the kind I have been around. On the dairy farm growing up, we always had a bull. Most people did in those days, and many do today as well. At our farm, the bulls stayed until they got too big or too ornery. The problem was, sometimes you didn’t know how ornery they were until they turned out that way. I really only remember the bull getting out once. At about 10 years old I stood looking out the kitchen window, watching the event unfold. With its big head, the crazed animal took its rage out on a spruce tree in the
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Come Boss! Farmers have used this phrase to call the cows home for eons. These days, the majority of cows in our country are not on pasture anymore, but not so long ago they were. My pasture days as a kid was more likely to involve searching for a newborn calf that was hiding, and helping to bring it home with its mom so she could be milked. Most calves were born in the loafing shed but every once in a while a heifer calved in the pasture. When we used the words “come boss” it was to call the cows at the beginning of milking to come to the holding pen. During milking, we would slide open a door and call for the cows to come into the barn after each side was released in our double-four herringbone. I always wondered if they were answering to “come boss” or if the agreeable ones just came tin because the door was opened. Calling the cows was effective for about the first half of milking, but the rest of them needed a little personal persuasion. And, why “come boss?” In the cow world, the word “boss” probably comes from the Latin word, Bos, which meant cattle. Some of you may have watched Jonna Jinton calling the cows home.
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Community bird watch Five years of local nature lovers By DANNA SABOLIK Staff Writer
ALEXANDRIA – A peaceful summer morning, or quiet winter afternoon, can be the best opportunity to sit and observe nature. Feeling the breeze and smelling the earth can be therapeutic, and so can watching. Looking and listening for birds is a common favorite pastime in the country. According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, more than 45 million people watch birds around and away from their homes. These self-described “citizen scientists” have gathered to create a society, the National Audubon Society, with local chapters popping up throughout the country. Among these 45 million bird watchers, one of
their favorite things to do is share their passion with others. “It’s so cool to watch someone become engaged with nature,” Charlene Nelson said. “Because once you are engaged, you’re connected.” In birding terms, a spark bird is referenced as the first bird to make you interested in birding and nature. “For me it was a snowy owl,” Nelson said. “When I was a girl, I was riding in the car to Christmas in Redwood County and I think about every pole we passed had a white bird on it.” From there, she was hooked. Nelson is a member of the Prairie Lakes Audubon Chapter and has loved bird watching since that day as a young girl in the backseat of the car. Viola Riggle, Prairie
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Lakes Audubon Chapter president, has a different story of her spark bird. “My spark bird was the cardinal,” Riggle said. “I saw its bright red color and heard it sing from the topmost part of the tree as I was walking to class one spring day during college in Ames, Iowa. Growing up in north central Iowa we did not see many of
them, so this one got me started.” Common birds that are often seen in Central Minnesota are the American Robin, Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Mallard Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, and Northern Cardinal. The birding list for Douglas
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ed for him,” Riggle said. “He’s done so much in his career, it will be great to hear him deliver a keynote.” Nelson has heard the keynote before and says it is moving. “Everyone cries,” she said. “He did a lot of work with Minnesota Loons after the oil spill in the Gulf. He has a great story to share.” In addition to Henderson, the 5th anniversary meeting will include a silent auction and be held at Grand Arbor Knute Nelson Community Room Sept. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. While they are looking forward to celebrating five years, there are many bird lovers and nature enthusiasts in the area that simply are not aware of the local chapter. “We find some people still don’t know about us,” Riggle said. “But we actually do a lot in the community.” The chapter works with other local organizations and agencies to promote their mission. They have a booth at local events like the STEAM expo in Alexandria and the Lake Carlos State Park Fall Festival. They also work with the Department of Natural Resources to build birdhouses for local parks
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and have placed 12 birdhouses in Kensington Runestone Park within Douglas County. The history of the Audubon itself is interesting as well. “It’s really neat to see how it’s evolved from ‘don’t shoot’ to all the conservation work we do today,” Riggle said. One of the biggest
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Technology makes this tradition different than it once was, however, and it is easy to engage with identification or lists by the touch of a smartphone. With the app, E bird, watchers can quickly identify birds and report where they have been spotted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have an alert set to go off if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rare bird spotted in my area,â&#x20AC;? Nelson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always exciting when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one close to me and I can hunt it down.â&#x20AC;? From hunts, to counts, to phones, birdwatching has remained a fascination for many rural people. Whether it is a rare bird, or one that is seen daily, the bird watching PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO SUBMITTED bug is easily caught and These two male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were observed and A White-breasted Nuthatch is photographed in winter by Prairie hard to evade. photographed by John M. Riggle, Prairie Lakes Audubon member.
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of the design this year. It could be a decoy, a hunting scene, hunters, dogs, as long as the duck was the main image. I had the structure of the wood duck designed for year and I had a hen in it originally. I changed it to a decoy, and I pushed it back and created some atmosphere so the duck image would pop a little bit more.
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Scot Storm has painted professionally since 1999, and works out of his studio near St. Rosa. While the majority of his work is waterfowl, he paints other wildlife as well. His reference photo for this bear painting was taken at about 30 yards away while on a photo safari in King Salmon, Alaska.
How long have you been painting professionally? I have been painting professionally for 20 years. I started out as an architect and never thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be an artist. It started as a hobby when I got out of school. My roommateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend was a painter and she told me she was entering the Minnesota Duck Stamp competition. I had been a hunter and knew I needed to have a duck stamp on my person to hunt, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know there was a contest and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know it was a painting. I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d dabble in it.
Your painting of a flying redhead duck also won the Federal Duck Stamp competition in 2004. What have you learned that has helped you in these competitions? For duck stamp competitions, whether state or Federal, you put about three to four times more work into them because you are competing against the best waterfowl artists in the country. So, every feather, color and the anatomyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be
right on. Everything has to be as close to perfect as possible to give you a leg up. Who are your main clients? For the commercial clients, Ducks Unlimited is by far the biggest; Pheasants Forever is number two. Those are actually competitions and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been fortunate enough to be selected every year for the last 15 years. Because I have worked with them they have come to me from time to time with some special projects. I also have private clients. Where has your work been sold? All around the United States and in Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The publisher agent I have is Wild Wings out of Lake City and Art Branch Studio is out of California and they do all the [prints]
duck stamp contests. I was placing pretty high and it motivated me to continue. It grew from a hobby to a point in my life where in 1999, my wife said â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need to make a choice; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re spending as much time and starting to make as money in art as you are in architecture.â&#x20AC;? She told me sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d back me in whatever decision I made. I chose art and went from there.
Your painting of a wood duck was chosen as the 2019-20 Federal Duck Stamp print. Can you tell us about that? The main image is a drake wood duck. What made you choose art over Part of the backdrop is an old Mason tackarchitecture? eyed wooden decoy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrating our I had some success right away with some hunting heritageâ&#x20AC;? was a required theme
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distribution for me. I’m also in Art Barbarians out of Rogers, had a couple clients that wanted brown bear [paintings] a gallery in New Jersey and Lovetts Gallery down in Tulsa. I and I didn’t have any reference for them. I was up there for do most of my originals distribution seven days. Some bear you can get 10 feet away. I wouldn’t recommend it but it just happens. What inspires you to paint? The most intimidating moment I had, we had a big boar that I’ve met some really interesting people and have a wide was 5 feet away from us. It came out of the woods and we variety of clients. Many of my paintings the last six to seven didn’t hear him as we were walking along the edge of the years are commissioned for individuals. For example, one stream. My guide was in front of me and he had two guns client remembered growing up on his grandfather’s farm. on him, a big pistol and a shotgun with salt pellets in it, and There were so many great memories that he wanted to another guy in the rear. I had two guides all the time with recreate that, so using stories and pictures, I spent days with loaded weapons but you get 5 feet [from a bear] and your him to recreate those memories and design the painting. weapons aren’t going to do any good. Anyway, this bear I enjoy all of the paintings because they all have stories came out of the woods and maybe it was the adrenaline but behind them, down to little butterflies. he looked at us and I swear to God he was on all fours and his eyes were at my height. Before we could do anything he You often go on photo safaris to collect reference took off running [away]. My guide had been in the business images. Tell us about your experience in Alaska: 30 years and he said he’s never had an experience like that. Three or four summers ago I went on a trip to King Salmon, Fortunately, everything went well, but it could have been Alaska to take reference photos. An outfitter I had done a not so good. painting for invited me up to take photos of some bear. I
You painted a bear for yourself? That one I did for myself because it was such a neat photo. I created it basically off of one single photo. I was probably about 30 yards from the bear. I’ve done maybe four or five bear paintings from that trip and they all make me remember. There’s not many people that get the opportunity to do what I did so it means more to me than anybody else. They can hang it on their wall but it still has a little story behind it for me.
What would you say to people who are making life and career choices? You have to do what you love because it shows through. That’s with everything, whether you’re coaching, teaching, writing or painting. To learn more about Scot Storm’s work, visit Stormwildlifeart.com or scotstorm.com.
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BARRETT – According to a 2018 study by the Washington Post, 40% of Americans have never left the country. While those involved in agriculture might have an even higher percentage, that number just dropped for eight Minnesota students. In July, eight West Central Area FFA students and eight Dassel-Cokato students traveled to South Africa to explore agriculture and lifestyles in a foreign country. Eric Sawatzke, WCA FFA instructor, has been on the trip twice before while teaching at a different school and was eager to include WCA students in the experience. Students trekked from Minnesota to Johannesburg, South Africa to begin their adventure, which lasted from July 16 – Aug. 1. On the trip were students Bret Duncan, Shane Wrolson, Austin Mattson, Brooke Anderson, Emma Swenson, Emma Saulsbury, Shelby Krusemark
and Ireland Winter. Adult chaperones included FFA instructor Ben Johnson and Rich Duncan. Sawatzke stayed home from this trip as he and his wife, Erica, had their first child in late July. In his time as an agriculture educator, Sawatzke traveled to South Africa with a group of educators from the University of Minnesota organized by Claudia Parliament, an ag economics professor. She was working in South Africa and she realized there was a need to get teachers from the United States to visit the country to better understand their economic system. Parliament’s work on the St. Paul campus made her privy to ag educators’ keen understanding of agriculture and local and global economics. She worked with Abbysinna Mushunje to create a trip for 10 ag teachers and four economics teachers from Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin. “I was a part of that group and while we were wrapping up the tour, all 14 of us talked about how
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During the summer of 2019, 16 students and 4 adults from the Dassel-Cokato and West Central Area schools traveled to South Africa to study agriculture, culture, athletics and the country’s well-documented history. The trip is a combination of FFA members and student athletes from both schools.
great it would be to bring students to experience South Africa,” Sawatzke said. “Abby was extremely interested and told us all that he would love to help us bring students so I went ahead and got school board approval when I taught in
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sive and it lasted two-anda-half hours and was 90% singing and dancing.” The Christian service was mostly in English, with the sermon in Xhosa (pronounced Co-san), one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. While English is not one of the official languages, most people speak it, making it easy for students to communicate with South Africans. “The only time we ever had any trouble [communicating] was when we were ordering food some-
times,” said Wrolson. “But most of our food was already prepared for us with the program.” Traveling abroad for the first time for many students, they were expecting to experience exotic landscapes and weather. But, July in South Africa is an awful lot like October in the midwestern United States. “It was just like Minnesota,” said Saulsbury. “There was farmland and trees and rolling hills. There were mountains the
farther inland you went, but for the most part it looked a lot like it does here.” Where students spent their time, along the southernmost tip of the continent, temperatures ranged from a low of 20 degrees Fahrenheit on cold evenings and mornings to a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit on warm days. In fact, Saulsbury’s favorite city they visited, Port Elizabeth, reminded
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her of Duluth. “It was a city right on the water and had a ton of cute coffee shops,” she said. “If I went back to South Africa, that’s where I’d go.” More highlights included a visit to the island prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 years, seeing a shantytown where entire families lived in crowded shacks the size of a fish house, touring the Phandulwazi Agricultural School where a 600-acre farm is run by students, and a big cat rehabilitation center. They also toured an orphanage where they played f soccer with children stay-
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Working with gentle giants Ritters enjoy draft horses, preserving rural heritage and sleighs. Horse-drawn activities are not only an interest the two have had for over 20 years, they are also preserving a big piece of rural heritage and the draft horse legacy. The interest in horses started at a young age for LeRoy. “My dad and grandpa had horses,” he said. “Grandpa did all the corn planting with horses and some of the potatoes.” Eileen enjoys the horses, but the hobby is more LeRoy’s. “The horses kind of scare me because they’re so big,” Eileen said. “But I like to ride along.” The couple finds driving the horses peaceful, with the rhythmic jingling of the bells on the harnesses as they move. “It’s relaxing when we take a ride,” Eileen said.
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Eileen and LeRoy Ritter stand with their horses, Dan (from left), Jack, Willy, Tubbs and Jake, Aug. 19 at their ranch outside of Avon. The Ritters have enjoyed owning horses and doing horse-drawn activities for over 20 years. PHOTOS SUBMITTED
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Friday, September 6, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 19 RITTER continued from page 18 “It’s quiet.” Jack and Dan have been with the Ritters for over 20 years. “They were our Christmas present,” LeRoy said. The horses have been an integral part of not only LeRoy and Eileen’s life, but for their six children, especially their son, Dean, who helped with the horses’ care over the years, and their 12 grandchildren. Jack, now 33 years old, is retired, but Dan, who is 32 years old, is going strong. “Dan still pulls like he’s a young horse yet,” LeRoy said. “It’s surprising he can do that. You wouldn’t guess he was 32 years old.” Eighteen-year-old Willy took Jack’s place alongside Dan and they work well together, pulling step-for-step. Each horse weighs about a ton.
Although all three of the horses bear the same flaxen mane and tail and light chestnut color, they can be identified by their face markings. “Willy has a wider stripe on his face and Dan has a narrow one,” LeRoy said. “Jack is smaller than the other two.” The Ritters own five other horses in addition to the Belgian trio – a mischievous Shetland pony named Tubbs, a Percheron draft horse, affectionally called Gentle Jake, and three riding horses. The majority of the horse-drawn equipment the Ritters own has been restored and preserved by LeRoy. “I like to put everything back into working order,” LeRoy said. “I’d hate
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oats, so demonstrations can be done. Most of the work was done using the horses and the horse-drawn equipment. When asked what they enjoy most about the event, both of them responded “everything.” “A lot of the old people just reminisce about how things were done years ago and they remember it,” Eileen said. LeRoy agreed. “I like to listen to all the memories the older people share,” he said. LeRoy will continue with his passion for as long as he is able. “In the morning, they all give me a nudge – especially Dan,” he said. “They are all real good horses.” PHOTOS BY KATELYN ASFELD
Above: LeRoy Ritter looks at a wall of memorabilia Aug. 19 at his home outside of Avon. Amongst the items are two posters advertising Draft Horse Field Day events the Ritters hosted in 2005 and 2010. They will be hosting the event again Sept. 28.
Left: A horse-drawn potato digger waits to be restored by LeRoy Ritter at 4R Ranch, Aug. 19 outside of Avon. Ritter rescued the piece of equipment from a field and intends to restore and use it.
Below: Eileen and LeRoy Ritter’s horses stand in a pasture Aug. 19 outside of Avon. Tubbs, a mischievous Shetland pony, peers out from behind Belgian draft horses Dan (left) and Willy.
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Instructors get hands-on experience in Holdingford By KATELYN ASFELD Staff Writer HOLDINGFORD – Small gas engines are an essential resource for many to effectively complete common outdoor tasks. Leaf blowers, weed whippers, chainsaws, garden tillers and lawn mowers are just a few of the many units that rely on a small gas engine to operate. Understanding how an engine works can be important, too. John Roberts, vocational agriculture instructor at Holdingford High School, has played a part in enabling vocational instructors to learn and share the basics about those engines to their students. Amongst the engine parts and tools laid out on shop tables Aug. 8, 19 vocational instructors gathered in the back of the Holdingford High School shop. One of the workshop instructors, Matt Rutnik, showed them how to properly use a torque wrench to ensure the right amount of required torque is applied to a nut or bolt. After the demonstration, participants broke out in pairs to work on their own small gas engine. Participants were on their third and last day of
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Above: Maria Daninger, vocational high school teacher at Goodhue, assembles a small gas engine Aug. 8 during a workshop at Holdingford High School. Right: Jonah Mayo (left) and Joe Ramstad work together to assemble a small gas engine Aug. 8 at Holdingford High School. Participants were required to disassemble and reassemble an engine as part of the Briggs and Stratton Beginner Vo-Ed Instructors Program.
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John Roberts, vocational agriculture instructor at Holdingford High School, has played a part in enabling vocational instructors to learn and share the basics about small engines to their students.
ALL PHOTOS BY KATELYN ASFELD
Above: Amongst the tools and parts, participants of a small gas engines workshop work in pairs to assemble engines Aug. 8 at Holdingford High School. Right: Vocational high school instructor Hank Neyens assembles a small gas engine Aug. 8 at Holdingford High School during a workshop held for 19 Minnesota high school teachers.
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