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LeAnne Lund loads up the car to make deliveries to florists from Hope Blooms Flower Farm, where she raises her own cut flowers on her Grove City property.
Lund has mission to deliver beauty, recognition BY SARAH COLBURN | STAFF WRITER
GROVE CITY – Hundreds of flowers were delivered fresh to dozens upon dozens of folks who didn’t order them. Sending a surprise to teachers navigating COVID protocols, people in hospice care, volunteers at a local food shelf, in-patient treatment centers, volunteers crafting face masks for others, LeAnne Lund sees them all and rewards them all. It’s her mission at Hope Blooms Flower Farm in Grove City to bring beauty to those around her and those in need. “It’s so nice to see who’s doing things in our community and who needs to be recognized and who needs to be uplifted,” Lund said. “It’s the highlight of my business.” For Lund, giving to those in the community is a non-negotiable. It’s a model she built into her company from its inception in 2019 and it’s something she plans to continue. About 95 percent of the bouquets that go out Lund’s door are created from stems grown right on her property. In some cases, she partners with a few other local farms to swap product if there’s something she doesn’t grow.
Lund offers fresh cut flower arrangements for sale through the entire growing season, May through September; she also provides stems direct to florists. Additionally, she offers a subscription service where customers can sign up to receive five weeks of fresh-cut flower bouquets and for every subscription purchased, she creates the same number of additional bouquets to simply give away. “If I’m going to do this, I want to share that beauty, share that hope, that happiness, to be a bright light in a dark world,” she said. Lund researches the seeds, plants the seeds, hand sows the plants across two acres of her property, weeds them, cares for them, harvests them, bouquets them and hand-delivers the finished product. Every March through September, Lund can be found in her greenhouse and garden. She begins seeding in March in her small
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from front backyard greenhouse. She uses soil blocking and starts the seeds on heat mats and then moves them under grow lights. She does get some plugs from other farmers or wholesalers; she gets her peonies from larger growers and she gets lily bulbs shipped in. When the plants are ready to go outside, she hand-plants them in the ground using urban farming and micro-farming practices. “We only have five acres and we want to crank out as much production as possible,” she said. She burns holes in landscaping fabric so she can get the spacing of the plant varieties just right – some 6 inches apart, other several feet apart. The fabric keeps the weeds down, eliminates a lot of extra work and helps keep moisture in the soil. Lund doesn’t put anything in the ground until mid-April and some plants go out later than that. She’s usually done planting by the beginning of June. She harvests tulips as early as May, depending on the year. “Part of what I’m trying to accomplish is growing a fresher product and I want people to know that I grew it,” Lund said. The cut-flower maven takes care to craft each and every bouquet from a variety of stems in her outdoor landscape. She focuses on peonies, lilies, calla lilies, dahlias, Veronica, Black-eyed Susan, delphinium, zinnias, sunflowers and one of her favorites, Baptisia. Her bouquets are light and airy and filled with unexpected stems and dreamy colors. Lund knows the story – and can rattle off the details – of the recipients of her bouquets. She knows just how many meals they distributed, how many face masks they sewed and gave away, the heart-breaking details of someone going through a hard time or someone who’s lonely and needs a pickme-up. Lund takes the time to listen, to notice and to remember. Her bouquets are a gift and the reactions keep her going.
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LeAnne Lund plants plugs into landscape fabric. She burns holes into the fabric, taking care to mark out the spacing to get as many plants as possible in one area.
Isaac Lund direct seeds into the ground which is covered by landscape fabric to retain moisture, reduce weeds and allow for proper spacing.
She talks joyfully about bringing sunflowers as big as her head to a group. “It was such a happy and fun day, people thought they were amazing and it just brought so much cheer,” she said. Lund’s backyard garden isn’t as lush and beautiful as
people would imagine, though she is working to create more of a charming atmosphere. Because the flowers are grown for cutting, the fields often hold a lot of stubbly, harvested plants. “It’s so different between the Instagram and the reality of it,” she said. For her, Minnesota spring
is a little slow and she admits she has zone envy as she sees other flower farmers with armloads of stems and she still has dirt. “It wakes up slowly – tulips, bleeding hearts, hostas, some perennials start emerging from the ground,” she said. “It’s a gradual process; things start to bloom and it will really be green.” As COVID-19 took hold and people became more unsure of where their food would come from, the Lunds began offering chicks for sale. Her oldest son, Asher, 14, oversees the chicken chores. He collects the eggs, cares for the animals and together, he and his mom are working towards creating a hen that will lay olive green eggs. They have a rooster, incubators and laying hens. They don’t sell a ton of eggs, but do sell the chicks to backyard enthusiasts. Lund said she receives a lot of cute, and sometimes weird, texts from people asking about caring for the chicks and feeding them certain foods. In addition to the chicks, Lund also began growing pumpkins and other vegetables to make sure she could help her neighbors if the food supply dwindled. She plans to continue the delve into veggies and
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Evie Lund hangs out in one of the peony fields at her parents’ farm in Grove City.
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The Lund family is behind the work of Hope Blooms Flower Farm of Grove City. Pictured peony stems throughout duction. are Maggie (front, from left) and LeAnne; Middle: Asher, Isaac and Seth; and (back) Evie. the lower 48 states. She’ll “I really have always
last three years, Maggie just started raising meat rabbits and Evie enjoys preparing new recipes in the kitchen. She plans to enter the family’s apple crisp in a 4-H competition this year. Isaac works with his father traveling around to sell and repair dental equipment. When he’s not working or playing with the kids, he’s helping in the garden. LeAnne said she’d never be able to run the business without his sup-
port. He supports her emotionally and backed her when she wanted to start a business but also, works with her side-byside as she harvests. “If I’m in the field and need to harvest, in the morning before work he’ll come out and help me harvest,” she said. He also helps with weeding, fencing and trouble-shooting, but lets her take the lead. “He does it with gusto and it’s really awesome,” she said. “He’s su-
per steady; I don’t think I could it without him. He’s a huge source of support and encouragement. Moving forward, Lund plans to focus on peonies – it’s how she actually began her business, planting 300 peony roots in 2018. She now has 1,500 plants and has another 900 ordered for planting this fall. She’s patiently – or, as she said, impatiently – waiting for them to begin steadily producing blooms. In three to five years, she
cut them, pack them with an ice pack and ship them overnight. She’s planted early, mid and late varieties and has a large cooler ready to go when the
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will offer them for sale, but remains focused on her flowers. “We wanted people to know how to take local, freshly grown ingredients and make them into a dish they can enjoy,” she said. For her, it’s an expansion of her fresh-cut flowers. “It connects people and gets them closer to where their food comes from and that’s huge,” Lund said. “When people know how their food is raised, ethically, humanely, it opens doors. They have an appreciation and value when they know the work it takes to get the food product onto their table.” LeAnne and her husband, Isaac, work to put fresh, healthful foods on their table for their four kids which include Asher, Seth, 12, Maggie, 9 and Evie, 5. Lund maintains a food blog on her website filled with original recipes that are tried and true in their home – tasted multiple times by the entire family and tweaked repeatedly before they become blog-worthy. Her whole family participates in the farm-to-table fun. Seth has raised the family’s Thanksgiving turkey for each of the
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PARKERS PRAIRIE – Backyards are known for grass, grills and gardens. The kids play and family dogs run freely. Backyards are also becoming a place for chickens, but that might require a chicken housing authority. Enter Josh Firkus of Parkers Prairie. Tucked into the bottom of a hill, nearly invisible from the winding gravel road at the top, an idyllic 41-acre plot leads to a view of the countryside far beyond. It is there that Firkus lives with his wife, Jackie, and daughters, Grace, Evelyn and Stella. It is also where Firkus operates Chicken
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Josh Firkus stands by a cupola that will be a finishing touch on the 4- by 20-foot coop he is working on, March 23 near Parkers Prairie. Firkus builds a number of types of “grand hotels” for chickens at his Chicken Housing Authority business at his farm.
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a coop is debatable, especially in a climate like Minnesota. “If you go online you see differing opinions, but our numbers come out to 2 square feet per bird, so this one can house 20 birds,” Firkus said. “Any more than that and you are just trying to heat a larger space. If you were to put 4 square feet [per bird], they would bunch up anyway to keep warm.” There is one nesting box for each four chickens, something that has pushed a change in design because they found that many nesting boxes were not necessary. Now, what were once extra nesting boxes is now a feed door to drop in kitchen scraps, lettuce greens or other food items. Feeding and gathering eggs are easily accomplished from the outside. The side of the coop features a “human door” so the owner can get in for feed and water. Visi-
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The animal in you I took the bait … the clickbait, that is. and furniture is probably not me. Because Personality tests was a topic of conpossibilities in this quiz include things like versation at dinner last week. My husband, bats, vultures and snakes, I’m quite happy as Don, and I were visiting with a young coua rooster. ple, both in their 30s, both whom work with I think you get the picture of how the many people under them in larger corporaquiz works. You might enjoy it, and it seems tions. In an attempt to better understand the to be harmless fun, certainly not to be taken people they work with, it is beneficial to unjust too seriously. derstand the personality traits that motivate As long as we’re on the rooster subject, them, which in turn helps the company to this all reminds me of a column written for Random Reflections our May 2013 issue of Country Acres, where run more smoothly. by Diane Leukam As we discussed their results, it made I touched on Stearns County commissionme think of the personality quiz I had taken ers’ unanimous vote to allow people to raise recently, one that fits in quite well with our love of ani- chickens on their property if they have at least one acre mals here in Country Acres land. This “Animal in You” of land. If you had one acre, you could raise 12 chickquiz has been taken by nearly 25 million people. It is ens. If you had five acres, you could have 31. just 10 questions and based on your answers, it matches That’s pretty specific, and I honestly have no idea your personality with that of any one of dozens of ani- what the rules are today. However, I think the pandemic mals from deer to lions to even warthogs. has affected the way many people think about their famWhen the photo of my animal popped up, it almost ilies’ food needs. If that means you raise chickens and made me chuckle. I am a rooster, or so they say. Liter- eggs, more power to you! ally hours prior, I had been going through photos for Our lovely rooster might not be an option, though, the Firkus story in this issue, trying to choose between depending on where you live. They can be a bit boisterchickens and a great big, colorful rooster that looked ous, as this excerpt from the 2013 column reads: suspiciously like my quiz photo. “… I thought of being awakened before dawn by There were some rooster characteristics I would be an energetic rooster, but that idea fell through when I OK with being labeled with, such as “talented, creative realized the ordinance doesn’t allow them. I wasn’t toand eccentric.” My siblings would agree with this state- tally against that thought personally. One of the sounds ment on roosters: “Craving attention, their show-off at- I remember most from a trip to Kenya was that of the titude sometimes generates criticism from those close to roosters at the very, very early hours of the morning. It them and their need to be the center of attention perme- was a country sound in the middle of a city … I kind of ates every aspect of their busy life.” Roosters like to be liked it.” involved in many things, and among the careers suited For me, chickens and roosters are just cool, particfor them are editor and journalist, and they enjoy fine ularly the colorful ones. They are beautiful, interesting wines, writing, cooking and painting. creatures that I have thought of owning many times, but Here’s another interesting statement: “A hard they just don’t seem to be in my future. If anything, it worker with a keen eye for detail, (a rooster’s) creativity would be Ameracaunas. Just saying! and dedication make it a wonderful employee, but as a I know this isn’t a color page, but the photo I menmanager or business owner, the finicky rooster tends to tioned above shows our alienate subordinates with its unrelenting enthusiasm. It fancy rooster in all his is also not a particularly strong team player, and its per- magnificence. • Manure Pits ceived self-absorbed and sanctimonious attitude breeds Now, just imagine • Grain Bins resentment.” Hmm. Should I be insulted by that? what animal you might be The high-energy trait seems to have waned with most like. I’d be very in• Feed Lots age, and having very expensive tastes in clothes, cars terested to know!
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Tim Venis stands inside his aquaponic greenhouse March 28 in Eagle Bend. The aquaponic system circulates water between the plants growing in flats and a 3,000-gallon tilapia tank.
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Caroline Venis admires one of her tomato plants in a wicking tub, a design that allows the plant to self-regulate the amount of water it uses. The plants will grow to the height of the greenhouse.
Menagerie Greens is named after the fact that they sell a menagerie of goods. Their products also include garlic, honey, eggs and a variety of baked goods including gluten- and dairy-free options, and almonds and walnuts from California.
“We’re trying to put fresh food into the hands of central Minnesota,” Tim said. “If we were in a bigger city we’d be more profitable, but why do these people deserve less?” For Menagerie Greens, the goal is both to promote healthy practices for their customers and their land. “This old earth is getting tired,” Caroline said.
“We’re doing what we can do to help it along. We only use 10% of the water that it’d normally take to grow a head of lettuce, and we reuse the water.” Tim and Caroline also believe that an important part of healthy practices is growing, working and selling locally. “[Our vegetables] stay fresher longer,” Tim
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“We’re trying to put fresh food into the hands th of central Minnesota. M If we were in a bigger ccity we’d be more profitm able, but why abl do these th people deserve less?” deser - Tim Venis
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(above) The Friedrich farm, Boulder Ridge, as viewed from Greg Friedrich’s powered parachute. (upper right) Greg Friedrich takes to the sky in his powered parachute.
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LONG PRAIRIE – After years of life in the cities, and reuniting with his childhood sweetheart, Greg Friedrich moved to Long Prairie. He and his wife, Col-leen, have been there two o d decades now and the land n they live on has given Friedrich opportunity to o try all sorts of new adven-tures. “We couldn’t stand d the cities anymore, so we sold and moved here,” he said. “We fell in love with the area and the people here.” The Friedrichs own 85 acres of land where they’ve housed as many as four horses. They usee g the land for deer hunting and Friedrich invites outt his brothers, son and hiss dad. Their land is in the glacier chain amongst the rolling hills and is home to six ponds. “We call it a little slice of Heaven,” he said. He can often be found jumping in the Polaris Ranger to drive around his land, along with the 750 acres he manages that’s privately owned nearby. He’s been managing the land by Lake Beauty, just eight miles east and a little north of Long Prairie, for 18 years. Friedrich got the job when he wasn’t looking for one. He had a flooring installation company in the cities and when he moved to Central Minnesota, began building houses, doing remodels and property management. He did a cabin addition for the owner and
A An extensive t i ttrailil camera system t on th the property t Greg Friedrich cares for captures images of a number of animals, including whitetail deer.
“I love to learn, I love to keep on learning” - Greg Friedrich
that morphed into keeping an eye on the property and then building a deer stand, serving as foreman over the installation of 26,000 trees and, eventually, he was asked to manage the property. He manages the property for whitetail deer hunting. After being asked to take on the position, Friedrich decided not just to research the job, but to truly become educated for it – something he does with nearly every new thing he tries. He’s now a level two steward through the Quality Deer Management Association, which is the largest whitetail management organization in the world. He attended his first short course online and
then took hhis second, long course in person in Michigan. He learned how to age deer on the hoof, learned about managing a herd and the creation of food plots. When the owner asked him to put in an orchard of nearly 40 apple trees, Friedrich again went straight to the source and took classes at the University of Minnesota. He maintains more than 20 miles of trail through the property. He creates bedding areas for the deer and provides them with food and water sources, managing 12 different food plots. Once Friedrich hand-plotted the orchard, the owner asked if he’d be interested in beekeeping as a way to sustain the apple trees. “I love to learn, I love
to keep on learning,” Friedrich said. So, he headed to the University of Minnesota to take a course on beekeeping in a northern climate. He took the beginning classes, he took the advanced classes, he learned from commercial beekeepers and then he started his own hives. In a given year, he has 10 to 20 hives and he encloses them in a bee yard to protect them from black
bears in the area. One of his bee yards is filled with Russian bees; the species originated in Siberia and are, accordingly, more winter hardy. They also happen to be, he said, more resistant to mites that can kill off other species. As he works with the bees, he takes special interest in researching what types of nearby plantings result in more honey and better honey. He incorporates plants that impact the taste and color of the honey into the food plots where deer, turkey and bees can all benefit. He introduces buck-
wheat to give the honey a darker color and stronger flavor, sometimes opting to include white clover to produce more of a golden yellow look. He’s careful with the buckwheat though, he said. The deer like it but it doesn’t have as much nutritional value for the deer. He doesn’t sell the honey but donates it and gives it away. Each and every bottle is labeled with his own personal sticker asking the recipient, if they’re feeling generous, to make a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Founda-
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Page 18 • Country Acres | Friday, April 16 2021 as accurate as possible. Greg, Jr. pushed for them to be three-dimensional and he crafted them from stainless steel with cylinders that spin just like an actual revolver. Before they debuted the gate at a car show in the Twin Cities, Greg, Jr. asked him to hand-carve the pistol grip himself out of wood, so he did. “Really, it’s a piece of art,” Friedrich said. On the reverse side of the archway are the words, “Lock and Load,” and on the front, “In God We Trust.” People stop by and take pictures of the gate and post them on social media. For Friedrich, it’s a testament to the things that are important to him. “We’ve lost a bunch of values in our country, they’re trying to take God out of it,” he said. Friedrich is not only a believer; he’s using his time on Earth to try new things and continually learn. Friedrich started racing demolition derby when he was 16 and then moved on to drag racing. Greg, Jr.
got into land speed racing and Friedrich and his wife annually took a trip down from page 17 to Utah in their recreational vehicle, two dogs in tion. He’s never contacted tow – an Australian Shepthe foundation; he doesn’t herd who Friedrich swears know how much money he could finish his sentences, has raised, but the dollars and his wife’s dog, a giant go towards researching Leonberger, to watch the CF, a condition his nowraces in the salt flats. adult daughter manages. Now, Friedrich and Friedrich is close to Greg, Jr. have cars of their his kids. own and come August, He doesn’t call them they’re hoping to have his stepchildren; though them ready to race in the some are Colleen’s from a salt flats of Utah. The racprevious marriage, they’re ers don’t compete against just his kids and he’s one another, just themproud of each and every selves – some topping one of them. out at 200 to 3000 mph. Friedrich’s personal “We’ve always property is a testament to been into fast cars, ean that. The entry to his land it’s just good, clean ch touts a 16-foot-tall archfun,” Friedrich way made of wood from said. “You cann an Amish sawmill and deincorporate signed by his son, Greg Jr., the whole who’s a world-class hot family.” rod car builder and owns That’s nott Gizmos in Cedar. the only daring ng ch The archway features thing Friedrich hand-crafted revolvers likes to do. He wer that Friedrich and Greg, also flies a power ng it Jr. had designed by a CAD parachute – using specialist after they tried for fun, giving friends wo-seater time and time again to rides as it’s a two-seater, get the dimensions corand taking photos from rect to make the pistols the air. He’s used it to track down horses on the run and he’s used it to keep an eye on the property he manages. For Friedrich, life is about living and learning and never stopping. He’s a huge believer in contributing to the local economy, always choosing to keep his dollars local. He’s a supporter of law enforcement and just for fun, he became an ordained minister to perform a wedding for his nephew. “To me, success has One of the pistols that now forms the gate on the front nothing to do with monarchway to Greg Friedrich’s property is a work in progress ey,” he said. “Success, to in this photo, before the hand-crafted wood hand grip me, is learning from your was added. mistakes and always doing the right thing.”
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• 3-4 medium cucumbers, peeled and sliced • 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced • 1/2 cup sour cream • 1/4 cup mayonnaise • 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
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We celebrated my birthday and I made one of my go-to recipes, Lemon Angel Food Cake. I make it often when we have an abundance of eggs. It is easy (only six ingredients, all of which I usually have on hand), fairly quick to throw together and super yummy! It really shines when topped with a handful of blueberries and some whipped cream.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place oven rack on lowest setting; remove all additional oven racks. (I always forget to do this part until the oven is hot, but it is so much easier if you do it now.) Allow egg whites to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes; if using eggs straight from the coop, skip this step. While you wait, in a separate bowl combine powdered sugar and flour. Add cream of tartar to the egg whites and whip with a mixer until it turns white and soft peaks form (when you lift the beater out the little peak should flop over.) Add lemon juice. Then continue whipping (Whip it, whip it good :-) ) and gradually add granulated sugar. When stiff peaks form (the little peaks made with the beater don’t flop over anymore but stand tall), stop mixing. Using a spatula, begin folding in the powdered sugar/flour mixture, about 1/4 of the mixture at a time, and gently combine. Pour into an ungreased angel food cake pan. Bake on the lowest rack in your oven for 40 minutes or until the top springs back when you touch it. Immediately invert (flip cake and pan upside down, I usually put mine onto a can of baked beans) and allow it to cool. I love to serve it topped with whipped cream and blueberries.
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• 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese (grated works too, but shredded looks and tastes better) • Garlic salt to taste • Pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and slice zucchini. Toss in a bowl with olive oil until completely coated. Lay out in a single layer on a sided baking sheet. Sprinkle with garlic salt and pepper. Bake 10 minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan and broil for 2-3 minutes until cheese is golden and melted. Here are a couple of modifications you can make to mix it up: Drizzle with lemon juice before baking to add a little zip, OR omit pepper and substitute for chili powder, and drizzle with lime juice for a southwestern version.
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Centre after they were married, but after a few years, they decided their growing family needed more room and bought a foreclosed 11-acre farm south of Interstate 94. They focused on renovating the buildings during their first year they owned the farm; the farmhouse was in rough shape, and the old horse barn had been used as a chickPHOTO SUBMITTED
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from page 25 children started asking for a dog, she saw it as both a family and community benefit. In the spring of 2019, the Harrens got their first female golden, Amelia Joy, from a small family breeder in Brainerd. Amelia comes from a pedigree of champion bloodlines and often accompanies Chris to take care of the cattle. The Harrens brought home their male golden, Billy, March 28 from a family breeder in Rice. “Billy will eventually become our sire for breeding,” Hannah said. “He must first be 2 years old and pass all health clearances, but this summer, if mother nature cooperates, Amelia will be bred with a champion Golden Retriever male with puppies expected to arrive around July. We are just so excited to have all kinds of fluffy puppies playing in our yard.” The potential puppies have already garnered interest, with people from Sauk Centre down to the Twin Cities placing de-
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Chris and Hannah Harren interact with their cattle the evening of March 25 at the Fresh Air Farms pastures northeast of Sauk Centre.
posits. Of the profit from every puppy sold, 10% will be donated to missionaries dedicated to ending human trafficking as well as medical missionaries both local and abroad. Hannah also plans to give back to the hospice program where she works.
Business has also been good for Golden Acres’ beef, especially after the ball really got rolling around 2018-20; it was the uptick in interest and traffic which helped the Harrens in their discernment as to whether or not they wanted their farm to become a business.
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