Country Acres - January 17 edition by Star Publications

Country Friday, January 17, 2020

cres A Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment

Volume 8, Edition 1

PHOTO BY SARAH COLBURN

Just inside the door to his winter tent, Mike Leedahl starts a fire in his lightweight titanium camp stove, with the smoke escaping through a chimney.

Alive

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Leedahl relishes winter camping, anything nature By SARAH COLBURN Staff Writer

AVON – Mike Leedahl dons his Mukluks and straps on his snowshoes to trek across the land, taking in the elements, from the animals and sunlight to the barren trees. He breathes it in, he lives it. He relishes in the black and white of the Minnesota winters, the starkness of brush against the fresh snow, the tracks that show life continues under the blanket that covers the Midwest. “I just never feel more alive than that,” Leedahl said. Nature calls this outdoor enthusiast year-round; from fishing, hunting and canoeing to outdoor winter camping and assisting with a dog-mushing team, he does it all. And, when it comes to winter camping, as in most things, Leedahl does it the traditional way. That means a cotton canvas white tent, titanium wood-burning stove, his food and clothing packed onto a toboggan that he pulls across the land in his snowshoes.

He becomes one with the woods and as civilization melts away his senses heighten and everything becomes more vivid. The land reveals itself. “Maybe it’s just a part of me, it’s who I am,” he said. Though Leedahl has spent a lifetime enjoying the outdoors, due to life’s many commitments he only returned to winter camping as a sport a year ago – prior to that it had been nearly a decade since he winter camped. For him the season provides a comfort and a seclusion like nothing else. The trails change, the landscape changes and there’s not another human soul for miles. “It’s really hard to explain; the best way to explain it is to take someone out and experience it,” he said. He recalls a trip to the Sawbill Trail north of Tofte on the North Shore and as he tells the story his eyes smile and his face lightens as he remembers the details. “We went six or seven miles in and took another road but it wasn’t plowed … we wanted to go where we grouse hunt in the fall so we took a 45-minute trip in, we snowshoed,” he said. “It was 9 o’clock

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Mike Leedahl and his colleague took their first traditional-style winter camping trip to the BWCA on Kawishiwi Lake.

at night and it was snowing and all the sounds were just absorbed by the snow and the headlamps would barely reach.” He and his brother and his colleague set up camp. That was 2009. In the last more than 30 years Leedahl has learned from some of the best winter adventurers in the world. A science teacher by trade, he’s read books, researched and studied. He’s also attend-

ed symposiums with speakers the likes of arctic explorers Will Steger, Paul Schurke Garrett and Alexandra Conover and Lonnie Dupre. He’s learned to always go into an adventure with a back-up plan though he admits, one time it failed. He and his brother

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were six miles or less from does happen.” Leedahl has become the end of the Gunflint Trail and it was 42 degrees an expert in layering and below zero – the start of has enough winter cloththe Polar Vortex last year. ing to fill half a kitchen Their gear started freez- table and a nearby bench. ing, despite a new coating His mainstay, can’t live of Gulf Wax, the tobog- without, base layer is megans stopped sliding, the rino wool, a wool he says wood stove wasn’t able feels like cotton and won’t to heat the tent the way melt. He wears a wool they would have liked shirt, wool pants, a fleece and cooking took longer. or wool vest, a fleece anThe backpack stove they orak or blanket shirt and a nylon brought anorak if for makit’s realing tea, “I’m not afraid of ly windy. hot chocolate and the cold anymore,” His tip: wear at coffee he said. “I might least one wasn’t l a y e r working have cold fingers tucked well and eventualonce in awhile but in to retain body ly broke. ...I always have heat. He T h e y didn’t something in mind uwsru aa lpl ys make it a sash as far in if the unexpected around as they does happen.” his anwould orak to h a v e - Mike Leedahl seal out liked and the wind after two nights they decided to turn and when he gets warm back and return to civili- from activity, he removes the sash and lets in some zation. Leedahl doesn’t give of the cool air. He opts up easily and not many is- for fingerless gloves, exsues throw him off course. plaining that on the back He’s slept under the stars of the hand the blood veson a 20-degree night with sels are near the surface, only a tarp below him and so the fingerless gloves a tarp above him, wrapped allow him to get work done while staying warm. in a sleeping bag. “I’m not afraid of the Occasionally he’ll double cold anymore,” he said. “I glove and top with anothmight have cold fingers er set of wool mittens, and once in awhile but …. I in extreme situations he’ll always have something put on his Plunge Mitts. “Everything you do is in mind if the unexpected

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A favorite pair of fingerless wool gloves are a must for Mike Leedahl to take a snowshoe hike through the woods and hills on his property.

going to decide your comfort level,” he said. He sleeps on a 2-inch Therm-a-Rest mat topped with a synthetic fill sleeping bag rated to 30 below. Generally, he said, the wood-burning stove keeps the tent warm though he doesn’t stoke the fire throughout the night. He gets it going and lets it burn out. In the morning he usually wakes to a thin layer For winter camping and other nature pursuits, Mike Leedahl relies of frost on the inside walls on this trusty knife he made using a blade from Russel Green of the tent and within half River Works and outfitted with a handmade, mountain-man-style an hour the stove steams off the frost and within an sheath.

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hour the tent is dry again. Depending on the sunrise or a strong moonlight, he said, the silhouette of his snowshoes and the stove smoke will mingle and create a picturesque pattern that dances across the white tent walls. Through the years, Leedahl has invested more in his gear. The very first winter camping trip he took was in junior high school and he ventured out with a nylon tent. He did the same when he took his first trip as an adult with a

colleague. That night they burned through a gigantic pile of wood to stay warm and Leedahl left his Mukluks outside his sleeping bag, awaking to find them frozen completely solid. Twenty years ago, he said, there wasn’t much commercially available for winter camping and what was available carried a hefty price tag. When he first began, he asked his sister-in-law, a professional seam-

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Floating cows by Diane Leukam Most of their feed, though, will be waste from the food industries in the area. Speaking of waste, their manure is contained in an airtight space, though I did not find out what they do with it. Each day a herd of 32 Meuse-Rhine-Issel cows, named for their origination in the area where the three rivers meet, will produce a couple hundred gallons of milk, which is pasteurized and/or made into milk products such as yogurt and eventually a soft cheese, all to be distributed and eaten locally. Floating Farm takes up 4,000 square feet, the size of a large home in Central Minnesota. Check it out online from any number of news stories or on their website, floatingfarm.nl. I hope you can read Dutch! Next, the land down under has been in world news lately with their country burning up in wildfires.

With so much destruction and loss, my heart aches for them. Back in August, though, I read a great story out of Australia about cow gas and seaweed. Research there is coming up with findings that a certain seaweed, if consumed by cows at just 2% of their DMI (dry matter intake), will eliminate their gas emissions up to 99%. My question is, how soon can they grow enough to be included in the diet of every cow in the world, and why stop at that? There are probably a few billion people who could take the seaweed in pill form someday, provided it works on humans. Why blame climate change on just cows, if you know what I mean? Closer to home but influenced again by the down-under folks, A2 milk is the craze in New Zealand and parts of the United States. The Dairy Star is our sister paper that is “All dairy, all the time.” Their Dec. 21 issue featured a front-page story by Jennifer Coyne, “Hendricksons become first Minnesota farm to make, sell A2 milk.” So, what is A2 milk? Apparently, most milk has two forms of beta casein protein. A1 is the protein that is so hard for many people to digest.

A2 is a protein that can be digested much more easily. According to the story, “Joel and Amanda Hendrickson began processing A2 whole milk Dec. 17 on their 135-cow dairy in Otter Tail County near Menahga. The Hendricksons and their 10 children – Zach, 14, Maddie, 12, Julia, 11, Lucy, 9, Lily and Maria, 8, Lane, 6, Nora, 4, Finn, 2, and Emma, 1 – are the faces behind Ten Finns Creamery.” I’m not sure about you, but I’m almost more interested in the family than the milk! Anyway, some time

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warding aspects of the project has been providing milk that many more people are able to drink. The Hendricksons are starting small and hope to someday sell all of the milk they produce as the market continues to grow. Read the whole story at Dairystar.com. Speaking of starting small, in just the last few days we have launched our own Facebook page, Country Acres Paper, and will enjoy watching it grow. Like our page and check out our fun tidbits, photos and links to stories online. We’ll see you there!

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Klaphakes’ state fair encounter sparks romance By DIANE LEUKAM Staff Writer

SAUK CENTRE – “You’re going to marry that girl someday.” That was in 2015, and a quote from a friend of Jason Klaphake’s. It was at the All Stars Sports Bar in St. Rosa and Jason had just danced with a girl he didn’t even know. Jason was there for a bachelor party and Tiffany Hulinksy was there with several of her friends. “That’s no joke,” Tiffany said. “We both had red plaid shirts on, so apparently we looked like we were meant to be together.” Jason had noticed Tiffany and saw she had her jacket on, planning to leave. “I said, ‘hey you can’t leave, we have to dance!’” Jason said. “The jacket was off like that.” They had found their first of many mutual interests. “He said he wanted to

go dancing and those were the magic words,” Tiffany said. She got his phone number that night, and they went out on a date. One date, that is. They went dancing, of course. But, Tiffany had several reasons for not pursuing a relationship at the time. “I was going on an exchange program, leaving the country for three months,” she said. “I didn’t want to start anything and I didn’t want to marry a dairy farmer.” Jason smiled. “And she didn’t want to date someone 10 years older,” he said. Jason is now 39 and Tiffany is 29. The 2015 prediction proved to be prophetic, though, and the two were married in August 2019. Jason and Tiffany Klaphake make one of those couples that are a natural fit. There is no struggle for conversation, they get along with each other’s friends and large families

and there is no pretense or changing who they are. Though they have been married only a matter of months, it seems like much longer, in a good way. It just took them a while to figure it all out. Jason has lived on the home farm south of Sauk Centre all but a year-anda-half of his life. He loves to shop local, but when it came to finding his future wife, he needed to expand his boundaries. “When we were dating, I used to tease him all the time that he had to cross the county line to find a girl,” Tiffany said. “He said he’s dated a lot of girls from the area, mostly Stearns County. He’s all about staying local, but you have to get out once in a while to find the right one.” He really didn’t go too far. On Dec. 5, the two sat in their kitchen on the farm and talked about dating, PHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAM

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Page 8 • Country Acres - Friday, January 17, 2020 KLAPHAKE continued from page 7 oats. “I thought about going to college for ag and Dad said, ‘don’t go to college for ag, I can teach you farming. Go for something else and if farming don’t work out you have something else to back you up,’” Jason said. He chose to stay on the farm. Tiffany, the daughter of David and Shirley Hulinsky of Burtrum, grew up on a dairy farm with 60 cows and 340 acres. She chose to go to college, but did not stray from agriculture. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Crookston with a degree in agricultural business, she works at Central Lakes College in Staples as the program coordinator for AgCentric (MN Ag Center of Excellence). She also works with the Minnesota FFA Alumni Association. Luckily for the Klaphakes, their story did not end with one date in 2015. Though they had both gone on with life, their paths were to cross once again. This time it PHOTO SUBMITTED was not on the dance ﬂoor Jason and Tiffany Klaphake work on the harvest last fall on the but in a barn, with a little help from Jason’s brothers. Klaphake farm south of Sauk Centre.

their engagement, getting married and life in general. Jason is the youngest of 11 children of the late Ed and Marlene Klaphake. A 1999 graduate of Sauk Centre, he has been farming since his high school

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It was at the state fair in 2017, when Jason was there to work at the all-you-can-drink milk stand. Before his shift, he was walking around with his brothers, Charlie and Mark. Tiffany was working at the moo booth with her mother, who knew Mark. They were re-introduced but Jason needed a little additional matchmaking from Mark. “Mark said, ‘you know those good peaches, get her one of those,’ and I’m like, alright; it was like a $5 peach!” Jason and the peach made their way to Tiffany. “I was still working my shift so he knew where I was going to be,” she said. “I ate it later; it was a good peach!” The two began dating just two weeks later and the rest is history. “I ﬁgured the third time is a charm and if he

wants to go on a date after two years, apparently he really likes me and I’d give him a shot,” she said. “I told my roommate after a few months, I better be careful or I might end up working on a dairy farm again.” Eventually, these two farm kids got engaged and married. “I joke with people that I’m trying to make it as easy as possible for Jason,” Tiffany said. “We started dating Sept. 10 (2017), got engaged on Nov. 10 (2018) and married on Aug. 10 (2019). My birthday is Dec. 10, so, if it’s the fall and it’s the 10th of the month, you should be concerned; something’s up!” She is working on a dairy farm again, several nights a week and on many weekends. For fun, the two go dancing as often as they

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can, often to Rollie’s Rednecks and Longnecks in St. Cloud, where every Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights there is a live band. It is where they went on their ﬁrst date in 2015. Their favorites are swing dances, and Jason is under Tiffany’s tutelage. “She’s a lot more experienced than I am; I know a few basic moves but there are certain things she would like me to learn yet,” he said, smiling. Soon, they would like to start a family. Jason’s eyes glistened with tears, pausing as he spoke of family. His mom passed away in April 2013 and his dad very recently, on Nov. 17, 2019. His life growing up on the farm with his big family is one of his greatest treasures. “I wouldn’t trade

Friday, January 17, 2020 - Country Acres • Page 9 KLAPHAKE continued from page 8 “The ﬁrst time my dad and mom came to see the house before we got married, they saw the green tractors on the shelf and Dad said, ‘Don’t worry honey, we’ll ﬁx that for you; we’ll get some red ones for you!’” Tiffany said.

As time goes on and if they are blessed with children, the Klaphakes will no doubt teach them well. They will likely drive green tractors, eat good peaches and, if they are like their parents, they will learn to dance.

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Klose, 83, shares extraordinary kitchen enterprise By SARAH COLBURN Staff Writer

ATWATER – Four thousand pieces of lefse a year, 30 pies a week, 24 loaves of rye and bulgur bread and eight loaves of banana bread. That’s Bessie Klose’s weekly regimen. At the age of 83, Klose has won so many ribbons and awards for her baking she shoos away those who ask just how many. She gifts pies year-round to support ben-

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efits and fundraisers, she gives to the Atwater Area Living at Home fundraiser, the State Farmers Union benefit and the County Farmers Union spaghetti dinner and to just about anyone else who calls and is doing a fundraiser to help someone else. Her pies have sold for as much as $700 and a dozen lefse? $240. “It’s wonderful, it gives me such a sense of pride and makes you feel warm all over,” Bessie said. “They’re not just

bidding on a pie, they’re bidding on a Bessie’s pie. It’s really been a sense of accomplishment.” Bessie works out of her kitchen in Atwater. Creamy sunflower-colored cabinets surround the space and her granite-topped island serves as her main work surface. Below the island she has five-gallon buckets of bread flour and all-purpose flour and an ice cream pail of sorghum. A stand mixer sits sentry on the countertop and a second one stands on a rolling kitchen cart. Up until this year, she used a hand-held pastry blender and elbow grease to prepare the crusts for her pies. Now, she uses the stand mixer. “My recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, a lot I got from my mother,” she said. She doesn’t look at cookbooks or opt for what she calls “new fancy recipes” that use ingredients she’s never heard of. “I use the basics,” she

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This marble rolling pin is Bessie Klose’s baking staple in her Atwater farm kitchen where she makes 30 pies a week along with 24 loaves of rye and bulgur bread and eight loaves of banana bread, not to mention 4,000 pieces of lefse each year.

was taking home sweepstakes, earning the most blue ribbons in each class. She entered breads, cakes, cookies and international foods like her famous yearround lefse. She began selling her goods at the local farmer’s market 20 years ago. She sells frozen pies, breads, banana bread and lefse. Bessie’s whole face smiles and her eyes light up as she talks about working her stand at the market. “When I first started selling it, people questioned it ‘Lefse in the sum-

mer?’” she said, “and now, they say ‘Lefse in the summer!’” On her home farm she has four chest freezers and an upright – three in the garage and two in the basement. Ordinarily, the freezers are full, though Bessie just had an order for 24 pies that wiped out a good chunk of one freezer. She has one pie freezer, stacked with apple, rhubarb, pecan, peach, blueberry and cherry pies.

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She also loves to make pumpkin pie but the USDA won’t let her sell it at the farmer’s market because it’s considered a cream pie. She has another freezer ﬁlled with peeled apples and cut-up rhubarb for pies. Those are two ingredients Bessie said she usually doesn’t pay for. People donate apples and rhubarb to her, enough to allow her to make 30 pies a week. Though she can’t name off the exact measurements, Bessie can name off the ingredients for her bestknown baked goods. Over the years, she’s passed the love of baking down to her grandchildren and even her great-grandchildren – they’ve all baked with her and nearly all have competed at the fair, taking best of show and honorable mention. Her family loves her recipes. She typed up some of her favorites and made copies on the computer,

creating a three-ring binder for each of the great-grandkids. The book includes everything from snacks and baked goods from lefse and caramel corn to bon bons, ﬂavored oyster crackers and Nut Goodie bars. She also creates Christmas stockings for each one of her six grandkids and 12 great-grandkids. The adult

grandchildren protested her generosity until they realized the stockings were ﬁlled with baked goods – applesauce doughnuts and other goodies. Last Christmas she also gave each of the great-grands a recipe and a bag of ingredients to make their favorite treat. Bessie’s great-granddaughter came to bake

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standard and mammoth,” Holly said. “The mammoth breed is about 56 inches from hoof to shoulder and weighs about 950 pounds.” Each of the Simons’ By KATELYN ASFELD sinks below the horizon, donkeys has a name too – the winter wind gets coldStaff Writer Amigo, Letta, Luna, Taner, but the donkeys’ shaggy go, Ray, Esme, Rita and coats keep them warm. Hector – and their own “You can tell they HOLDINGFORD personality to boot. – Trudging through snow in don’t like the winter all Along with the eight a pasture, Holly Simon car- that much,” Holly said as donkeys, the Simons also ries a bucket of feed to give she points to a single, wellcare for 13 horses. All 21 to five of the eight donkeys worn trail through the pasanimals have been rescued. she and her husband, Scott, ture towards the barn. Most were purchased from The donkeys may not care for at their home near buyers who purchase horsHoldingford. As the sun like trudging through snow, es, donkeys and mules to be shipped either to Canada or Mexico for slaughter. Mexico, Switzerland, China and Japan are among the few nations where many people eat horse meat. “You can definitely get horses, donkeys and mules before they get to the kill buyer at an auction and buy them,” Holly said. “But not a lot of people have time to go to auctions.” Under the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service is barred from spending funds to conduct inspections of U.S. facilities that PHOTOS BY KATELYN ASFELD process horses (as well Holly Simon gives a bit of feed to the donkeys she and her husband, Scott, own and care for at their home as donkeys and mules) outside of Holdingford. intended for human conbut they do love people. “They’re like large dogs,” Holly said. “They’re so gentle and sweet.” A gray-dun color and short body are characteristics most people associate with donkeys. However, they can come in a variety of colors, including cream, shades of browns and grays, spotted, black, and light-faced roan (both red and gray), to name a few. They also come in a few different sizes. “There’s miniature,

Scott and Holly Simon with their son, Sutton, 2, spend time with one of their donkeys, Hector, Dec. 19 at their home near Holdingford. The Simon family enjoys caring for their 21 horses and donkeys, all of which were rescued.

sumption. Under this funding ban, FSIS is also not permitted to operate a fee or service program for the inspection of horses for human consumption. Only federally inspected establishments can produce products destined to enter interstate commerce or for export to foreign

countries, according to FSIS. Without the required FSIS inspection needed to conduct legal business, facilities processing equine for human consumption in the United States closed. It is legal, however, in

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Page 18 • Country Acres - Friday, January 17, 2020 SIMONS continued from page 17 Canada and Mexico to process equine. Horses purchased from kill buyers at auctions will be sent to kill pens until there are enough animals collected to be shipped across the border, Holly said. “Some people say there needs to be a slaughterhouse back in the U.S. because what do you do with all of these animals,” she said. “I understand that, however, if we focused more on ending unnecessary breeding, we wouldn’t have this problem [of excess animals]. The cycle needs to stop and people need to be more responsible.”

Originally, Holly wanted to buy a horse that needed a caring home to live out the rest of its life and could join her other horses in the pasture. What she soon learned would change her focus. “The first place I found [horses] was on Craigslist,” she said. “I initially just wanted a couple, but I found them being sold from kill pens. I knew there was such a thing, but I didn’t know they were so close to home. They’re all over the country.” Wanting to make a difference at whatever level they were able, Holly began looking for animals

mons’ son, Sutton, loves to be around the animals, too. “A lot of these horses, they had families,” Holly said. “They had little kids that tottered around them. They were 4-H horses that had families that adored them. And the families fell on bad times or the kids outgrew them. They bring them to an auction hoping a nice family is going to buy them, when in reality a man sitting up in the corner bidding on their horse could be a kill buyer and that horse is getting in a trailer with 50 other horses and will be shipped to Mexico.” Caring for their ani-

they could rescue from what she considers an unacceptable fate. Gradually, the Simons added more horses and donkeys to their family. Holly, who grew up with horses, and Scott, who grew up on a beef farm, know the responsibilities that come with animals. When the donkeys and horses arrive to their home, they may be older, or have special needs that require medications, special feed and extra attention. But this does not faze the couple. They are dedicated to their animals and give each one the care they need to live a happy life. The Si-

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had to say goodbye to their donkey, Frosty, who they had for over 27 years and their first rescued horse, Dolly, a draft horse who was in her 30s when she passed. “They’re like a family member,” Holly said. “It was really difficult to lose them. When you take in seniors, you know that’s going to happen sooner, rather than later. But, you’re doing something good and giving them a place to retire, rather than letting them go to slaughter or live a horrible, neglected life in somebody’s pasture.” The Simons know they cannot save every animal destined for slaughter, however, the ones they do rescue, they hope to give a comfortable home where they can live out the rest of their lives.

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