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Carla and Eric Zirbes are pictured during their July 23, 2016, wedding on the Zirbes family farm, where Eric was raised. Carla grew up on a farm in Oakes, North Dakota.
FAMILY Zirbeses enjoy life on six-generation farm raising beef cattle, horses
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The Zirbes family – Makayla (from left), Cassidy, Cody, Carla and Eric holding Laramie on June 13 – enjoy life on their Angus beef and horse farm northwest of Melrose. Everyone pitches in to get the work done, while also enjoying fun times in the outdoors around the farm.
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his brothers, Chad and Brian, and sister, Paula. So was pitching in with chores and milking. Eric figures back then they milked between 35 and 40 cows, with MELROSE – Laramie Zirbes roams around the around 60 cattle on the farm. His parents dairy farmed Zirbes’ family farm mid-morning on June 9. His until 1996, when Brian graduated from Melrose High parents, Carla and Eric, watch as their almost 2-year- School and “they ran out of help,” Eric said smiling. old son plays with a black kitten, holding it in his arms as sister Cassidy cautions him not to squeeze the Taking over the family farm kitten too tightly. Three years later and out of the military, Eric Six generations of Zirbeses have been raised on began the transition to take over the family farm. For this farm northwest of Melrose, where beef cattle a short time he worked part-time as a Melrose police roam the pastures, horses walk around a fenced-in area office before working nights full-time as a Stearns and chickens lay eggs. When Eric and his siblings, the County deputy, which allowed him to purchased fifth generation, were raised here, dairy cattle grazed upgraded farm machinery. in the field, bedding down in the barn at night. “I had limited time during the day to get the field A Century Farm sign greets people as they enter work done and with bigger machinery it got done the driveway. Eric’s great-great-grandparents, Anton quicker,” he said. and Frances (Pelle) Zirbes, first homesteaded the farm In the fall of 2000, Eric bought his first herd of in 1912, followed by Joe and Clara Zirbes, Hubert and Angus beef cattle and took the farm down a different Millie Zirbes, Mike and Vonnie Zirbes, and their son, path, as he raised his daughter, Makayla, here. Eric, took it over in 2001. Carla smiles when asked how she and Eric, now “From fifth or sixth grade I knew I wanted to both age 43, met in 2015. join the Marine Corps and come home and take over “Farmersonly.com,” she said, glancing at her the farm,” Eric said, sitting on the porch with Carla, husband of almost four years. Laramie now jumping around on a trampoline in She said at the time, Eric was looking for a farm the front yard with Cassidy. On this cool morning, girl. Raised on a farm in Oakes, North Dakota, she fit Laramie is warm blooded, removing his shoes, socks the profile. They started chatting and discovered they and shirt before running back to the porch. had mutual interests. Playing on the farm was a constant for Eric and “Horses were our main thing, and I lived in the
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country,” said Carla, who at the time owned a hobby farm in North Dakota while working for an insurance company. Eric proposed on May 22, 2016, on a dock on Stub Lake, before they went on a pontoon ride. Sharing a love for the outdoors, they had a small wedding on July 23, 2016, on the Zirbes’ farm. Each rode in on their horse. Carla wore a short white dress and cowboy boots, and Eric, dressed in jeans and a vest over a blue shirt, wore a white cowboy hat and boots. Their marriage joined together a blended family – Eric’s daughter Makayla, now 14; Carla’s son Cody, now 17; and Cassidy, now 12. They became a “yours, mine and ours” family almost two years ago when Laramie was born. ZIRBES continued on page 2
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Eric Zirbes puts ear tags on a newborn heifer calf June 14 at the Zirbes farm near Melrose. Angus and Simmental breeds of beef cattle are raised on the farm. Information on the ear tag is the mother’s identifying number and the bull used.
ZIRBES from front The fun of farming together as family They farm – and have fun – as a family. “There’s a lot of stuff I wouldn’t be able to get done by myself. The biggest things are baling hay, feeding cattle, bedding them down and cleaning the horse pens,” Eric said. “It all gets done because we work together.” “Picking rocks,” is Carla’s answer when asked what the least favorite job is. On days when Eric is in the field, Carla and their children take care of the night feedings. Eric smiles when saying getting them out of bed in the morning can be challenging. “I really don’t like doing chores,” Cassidy admits, with Carla adding, “She’s our babysitter.”
Technology eases farm tasks. “Any other time it would have been impossible to put up 200 big squares. It would have been 4,000 little bales,” he said. Last fall, into winter and again this spring they have been busy putting up fencing in a new pasture. Smiling, Eric said, “I try not to overwork them too much.” He thinks back to when he was 10 or 11 and “hated chores, but as I got older I knew it had to be done. There was a routine morning and night.” He didn’t realize until he was in his mid-20s how beneficial it was to be raised on the farm. “The work ethic is there,” Eric said. Beef cattle are not as work-intensive as dairy cows, allowing for more PHOTO SUBMITTED freedom and flexibility. Laramie and Cassidy collect eggs on June 12 on the They raise close to 200 Zirbes’ family farm northwest of Melrose. They have beef cattle – Angus and 15 laying eggs. Simmental breeds – to be
butchered. “I started selling beef privately and it blossomed from there,” Eric said. They look forward to spring and the appearance of new life. Eighty calves were born this spring, including six sets of twins, one set that died. “When they calve we put them (mom and her twins) in the barn for 10 days to get that connection before we put them in the pasture. The calves figure it out and the mothers know they are her calves, ” Eric said. “That way the kids don’t have to bottle feed ‘em.” Carla said caring for their four riding horses and three draft horses is pretty simple, putting out feed and cleaning horse pens. Barrel racing has been in her blood since her youth. She looks forward ZIRBES continued on page 3
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ZIRBES from page 2 to scheduled races, which started a few weeks ago. Eric plotted out an area on their land where she can practice barrel racing. They give sleigh and trolley rides with their draft horses. “We haven’t hooked ‘em up for a year because it’s been pretty busy,” Eric said adding, “They’re pasture pets right now.” Trails rides, which they try to do twice a week, are a nice getaway. Family time on the farm When asked when they like about life on their 400-acre farm, Carla and Eric agree the “availability to the land, the woods, the lake.” The kids like it, too. “[They have] the freedom to go wherever they want. They run all over the farm,” Carla said. “Cody likes duck and goose hunting. Makayla likes mowing the lawn, and they all like driving the four-wheeler,” Eric said. They frequent Stub Lake, a private spring-fed body of water, swimming and fishing, which is right up Carla’s alley because “in North Dakota we didn’t have any lakes,” she said. Eric’s dad caught fish at the lake in the 50s-60s. “We spend a lot of time around campfires at Stub Lake,” Eric said. At home this summer, Makayla and Cassidy participate in the Build 24 program through Melrose Area Public Schools. It’s part of their strength and endurance training for swimming and gymnastics because they cannot do in-person training due to COVID-19. Cody works part-time at Corborn’s. They all love life on the farm. “It’s cool to walk out in the morning and see all the cows,” said Makayla, who also likes feeding the four or five cats that run around the farm. And what does Laramie like doing? “He loves to go out on the tractor with Dad,” Carla said, looking at their always busy young son. “He’s brought so much joy to the family,” PHOTO SUBMITTED Makayla said. Much like life on the Zirbes farm has brought joy Carla (from left), Cassidy, Laramie and Makayla are pictured at a barrel race the weekend of June 13-14 in Litchfield. Carla has done barrel racing since her youth. to six generations.
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– better clothes, better everything – but he was emotionally troubled,” Walsh said. Having pored over the history, Walsh has empathy toward the children of the Orphan Trains. “It was a terrible situation, putting these babies on trains and
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them and he had waited some time but he had to leave and wanted to give his best regards to mother,” Walsh said. “I think these people were more about survival … but they did take him in and I think they did their best by him; he called her ‘mother.’” In addition to James Bradley and Robert Babcock, Joseph B. Rooney, also of New York, was adopted by James and Anna Rooney. Henry Egan was adopted by Dennis and Mary Rooney. Additionally, not specifically a Rooney story but rather a Padua story, Earnest Jones was taken in by the parish priest, who also boarded the school teacher and a housekeeper. Jones was born in 1893 to a father in New York and a mother from Virginia. He attended school in Padua.
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pioneers. “They were fighting for their lives, [against] the blizzards, the cold, the locusts that came,” she said. “The obstacles they were up against were enormous but yet, they were trying to reach out and care for these orphans.” Walsh said the children became part of the household and had heavy responsibilities by the time they were 12 or 13. Even though Walsh said she didn’t think there was a lot of time to be warm and cuddly with their kids, there was a strong connection within the families. She has a note from Robert. He returned to the family farm years later with his wife. He didn’t let anyone know he was coming. “He addressed the note to Mary, my aunt. It said he’s so sorry to miss
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are by yourself in a village with 250 people and they speak a different language,” Konsor said. “It was rewarding, it gave me that stick-to-it attitude.” The Art in Motion project, which is still in progress, began with developing a creative space off of the Lake Wobegon Trail. A large new structure resembling a barn has a café, called Café Boho, where sandwiches, wraps, salads, baked goods, coffee, craft beer and wine will be served. Visitors will be able to enjoy a craft beer out on the back patio to take in views of the fields, or meander towards the front porch to view the trail area while sipping on coffee and enjoying baked goods. If being inside seems more pleasing, there is a lounge space in the center of the building with couches and chairs where guests can relax, read, socialize and enjoy food and beverages. Farther back in the room there are custom-made tables from
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The Art in Motion building sits on former farmland adjacent to the Lake Wobegon Trail outside of Holdingford.
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Greg Konsor and his son, Keegan Konsor, who is helping with Art in Motion this summer, take a break during a day spent working on the interior of Art in Motion, June 2 in Holdingford.
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to use the screens for Bob Ross video nights, lessons from artists and polka or bluegrass music nights, and he is coming up with more ideas by the day. He hopes the screen in the studio can be utilized as a learning and teaching tool. With a large amount of open space behind the building, Konsor took inspiration from a podcast called “S-Town” and planted a primrose maze this spring. It has four different doors, which means it has 64 different outcomes. Konsor also recently planted an almost five-acre pollinator garden ART IN MOTION continued on page 11
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for monarch butterflies and bees. Not far from the primrose maze, there is a separate building that can be used to house artists in residence. Konsor’s first artist in residence will be Zack Jones from Malvern, Iowa, who is coming to paint a mural in the center. Jones has worked on projects such as the Art Church in Malvern and a mural in Oakland, Iowa dedicated to cleaning up the business district. Konsor plans to have artists from all different mediums from literature to music, to painting and pottery, visiting and teaching at Art in Motion. Konsor has kept his FFA roots close by having flower boxes made by local kids placed under the outside windows of Art in Motion. The flowers
planted in the boxes were planted at an FFA greenhouse run by Konsor’s former school teacher, Arlyn Lawrenz. Lawrenz has been hands-on with Konsor’s Art in Motion project, with his role on the Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation board. With the project taking place along a well-known bike trail, Konsor is keenly interested in bringing bicyclists to the area and learning their stories. He would like to make Holdingford a destination for the transcontinental bikers who bike from coast to coast across the United States. “We would like to make Holdingford ART IN MOTION continued on page 12
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ART IN MOTION from page 11 a micro destination,” Konsor said. “We would love to do an interview with them [the bikers] and capture their story.” An avid biker himself, Konsor biked across Europe two years ago. He also has a family biking club called “The Riding Dead.” They create a new bike jersey every year to represent the spirit of their family club. The small-town feel is what Konsor hopes will draw bikers and artists to Art in Motion. He said people have been curious about how he will make the project work in such a small town, but he believes in the project he is creating near Holdingford. “I think that is the unique thing, because it is a small town. You don’t see
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Steve Hemans, with Prairie Scapes, assists Greg Konsor in creating his vision of bringing art and the outdoors together at Art in Motion near Holdingford.
anybody; you just see the trail and the facility,” Konsor said. Lawrenz agreed. “I’m just excited for Holdingford that Greg would come back and do
something like this for his community,” Lawrenz said. “It’s going to be a tremendous thing for our community. It is going to bring people in.” Konsor envisions people coming
to the center to enjoy nature by going for a walk, bike ride, or to roller blade, and return for time to relax, look at art, enjoy food and meet new people. “The whole concept is to motivate people to hit the trails, appreciate art, be in the moment and make some new friends,” Konsor said. Art in Motion will have an open house for artists on June 18-20 in twohour slots for groups of 10 or less. The open houses will be an opportunity to show artists the facility, provide food and beverages and tell the artists about the project and how they can get involved. Konsor is currently unsure when the official opening of the facility will be because of COVID-19, but a tentative start date for public opening is July 7. Konsor has hopes of beginning with open houses and introducing the project to artists before it opens to the public.
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This peaceful scene greets Steve and Sherri Moening when they go to out to their pond and cabin on their farm south of Padua. Steve dug the pond in a naturally low pasture area in 2012, and it took two years for the pond to fill.
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PADUA – Steve and Sherri Moening enjoy inviting family and friends to their cabin. Inside, there is a sign that says, “Welcome to the Pond.” The Moenings have quite the drive – they spend all of two minutes getting there. The cabin rests on a gentle slope to the pond – a pond Steve dug on their land just a quarter mile south of the farm site. In 2012 they were experiencing a dry year, and Steve had a hunch the pasture land his father had drained many years prior would hold water. He was right. “When we dug it there was a sand vein there for the water to seep in,” he said. “I had a feeling it would hold the water level; it is 14 feet deep [in the middle] and it took two years to fill.” A windmill blows in the breeze to pump fresh air into the pond to keep the water fresh for swimming, kayaking with their blue heeler/beagle cross named Molly, paddle boarding and rowing. The sandy beach has its own firepit PHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAM
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POND from page 14 and a dock where they can enjoy nature. “It’s so peaceful, you can meditate,” Sherri said. “We take lots of pictures out here; lots of sunset pictures. It’s all in the clouds.” Near the pond an entertaining site constructed with large limestone rocks from the farm, a number of them weighing between one-and-a-half to two tons. How does he know that? His skidloader can lift a ton. The quaint, 12- by 16-foot cabin is constructed primarily of recycled materials and features a dinette table and chairs, bar, bunk beds and a cast iron stove. A small solar panel keeps the site completely off the grid. Total cost of the project? About $4,000. For the Moenings, a cozy cabin, a sunset at the beach and the serenity of PHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAM nature: priceless. Large limestone rocks from the Moening farm were used to create this inviting entertainment area near the pond.
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Molly, a Blue Heeler/ Beagle cross, heads to the water for a drink June 15 south of Padua.
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FISHING from page 13
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The Litchfield Student Anglers Club gives kids a chance to learn how to fish and members can compete in fishing tournaments. Members PHOTO SUBMITTED Dragons captain Michael Carl (right) teaches members of the learn about water safety, how to read the lake and how to scout out the best locations for fish. Litchfield Student Anglers Club how to tie knots.
fishing teams and competitive angling, he launched the club. The organization is in its third year and this June, one of the Litchfield teams that qualified last season will head to a national angling competition in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The tournaments follow The Bass Federation rules and Minnesota hosts a qualifying tournament for the nationals. Annually, the tournament hosts 200 to 300 teams and last year qualified 13 teams for nationals. More than anything, Anderson said, the anglers club is a way for families to create a new hobby and connections. He watches as fishing teams that hit the water in groups of two with an adult captain go grab a burger after their time on the lake. “The camaraderie is
pretty neat,” Anderson said. Success in competitive fishing is a science and begins long before fishing opener. Beginning in January, Anderson hosts six classroom nights for the club, every other Sunday for two hours. During those classes, students learn about invasive species and hear from lake biologists, conservation officers and pro fishermen. They learn about boat safety and work through stations where they learn about tackle, knots and technique. The club heads to the high school swimming pool to practice different techniques on the water and see how different weights react. They learn the basics of casting and skipping in the middle of winter.
They also study lake contour maps. Anderson encourages students to look for oddities in the lake, such as steep break lines or deep water surrounded by a shallow, flat weed base. They mark up their lake maps on their laptops and talk about them with a PowerPoint presentation. Then, those maps get loaded onto an SD card and can plug directly into graphing software on a Humminbird system in a boat. Some of the adult volunteer boat captains have thousands of dollars wrapped up into the fancy technology, and other students make their way with maps, waypoints, a depth finder and GPS to the spots they discussed in class. All of them learn how to use the Humminbird system. The success of
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Classic Bass Pro Tony Hatten, president of the Granite City Bassmasters Club, does a pool demonstration for the Litchfield Student Anglers Club.
any fishing expedition depends on wind, sun and weather patterns, Anderson said. When he’s out on the lake in the spring he brings up a temperature graph in his boat and looks for warmer water; even one to two degrees warmer than the rest of the basin, he said, is where the fish will gather. In the summer he looks for a thermocline, where dissolved oxygen doesn’t mix with the lower surfaces of the water so, below a certain depth, fish can’t live and instead, suspend in the water just above that area. When it comes time for tournaments, Anderson said, teams often use their maps to pre-fish the lake and make sure they’ve found some waypoints where there’s good-quality tournament fishing spots. Typically, the tournaments the teams enter are bassonly tournaments, though occasionally, they enter multi-species tournaments. Normally there is a big start to a tournament and students race off to their pre-determined fishing spots, but tournaments this summer will have a staggered start with the onset of COVID-19. While some tournaments require weigh-ins of fish and hand out scales at the beginning of the competition, they’re forgoing that this year and opting instead to have kids photograph their fish
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Dan Anderson is the founder of the Litchfield Student Anglers Club. The club provides an opportunity for kids to learn to fish and, as they advance, compete in tournaments.
on a measuring line and upload the photo to an app to record the size of their catch. The app tells them when they can start and when they must stop, and it records all their fish, submitting the top catches of the day from each attendee. All the tournaments they attend, Anderson said, focus on catch and release. The most experienced fishermen in the angling club participate in high school tournaments. There are also tournaments for kids 14 and under. In addition, Anderson’s league fishing nights work just like a tournament with the kids competing. The league is supported by booster
fees and grants from various organizations. The Litchfield team has support from 3M and gets sponsorships from companies like Lund for their official team jerseys. The organization does have a registration fee that covers costs for the entire winter training as well as the summer league. For Anderson, the Litchfield Student Anglers Club has become a place to watch kids and families grow. “I’ve seen shy kids who can’t compete in the other sports become very competitive in this,” he said. “I’ve seen a number of kids break out of their shells.”
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Settergren brothers proud of family’s legacy
Meeker County dairy surpasses 100 years By JENNIFER COYNE Staff Writer DASSEL, – Don and Peter Settergren are humbled to be working the land their grandfather first farmed in 1919. Last year, the brothers’ 55-cow dairy farm in Meeker County near Dassel was recognized as a century farm. “This was our grandfather’s farm, and
I think our family has been milking cows since 1881,” Don said. The bachelor brothers have run the family’s farm since they returned home from college in 1975, and worked alongside their parents until their passings in 2011 and 2019. “Dad worked with us until he was 95 years old,” Peter said. “He was mechanically inclined. If something would break down, I’d drop it off
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Peter and Don Settergren stand in their tiestall barn on their 55-cow dairy farm near Dassel. The brothers are the fourth generation of Settergrens to farm on this location.
with him and then go do something else until it was fixed.” Peter, 64, oversees much of the crops and fieldwork on the farm’s 190 acres. He went to school at the University of Minnesota-Waseca for diversified ag production. “I mostly enjoy sitting in the tractor all afternoon,” Peter said. “I like cutting hay, and chopping corn silage is fun. It’s peaceful to just drive back and forth.”
The Settergrens have a diverse land base. They work in both high and low ground to grow mostly corn and alfalfa, and some wheat and oats. “With our land varied so much, we have always had a crop,” Peter said. “We’ll never have the bumper crop some farmers get, but all we have to do is get enough feed for the cows.” While Peter is mostly in the field, Don, 68, works with the cattle.
“Peter feeds the calves, but I do all the feeding for the cows. We both milk,” said Don, who went to school at the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities and received his doctorate in veterinary medicine. The Settergrens also have a brother, David, who helps wherever needed on the farm throughout the year. “He’ll help with fieldwork,” Don said. “And when we’re filling
the silo, he’ll unload while Peter is chopping, and then I’ll take care of the cattle.” Throughout the years, the Settergrens have always been present for farm chores. “It’s been over 50 years since a non-family member has done all the chores,” Don said. Peter agreed. “In this barn, a SETTERGREN continued on page 19
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SETTERGREN from page 18 cows. “We grew up milking in the parlor,” Don said. “Dad had back problems and just switching that took care of the problems. We had to have had one of the first parlors in the
“I like working with the animals, and milking is my favorite part. It’s where you make your money and it’s where you monitor how the cattle are doing.” - Don Settergren
area.” Then, in January 1977, a fire destroyed the barn that housed the milking parlor, holding area and some calves. For the following two years, the family covered the parlor area with canvas tarps to be able to still milk the cows as they built a new barn. “If we wanted to keep milking cows we had to do something,” Don said. “At that point, freestall barns weren’t a big thing yet. We were in the registered business, so we
went with a tiestall barn.” In 1981, the family also built a freestall barn for heifers. The Settergrens grew up in 4-H, FFA, school and sports. Don continues to keep up with the animal pedigrees within their 100% registered Holstein herd. “I like working with the animals, and milking is my favorite part,” Don said. “It’s where you’re making your money, and it’s where you monitor how the cattle are doing.” To keep up with the industry, the Settergrens have continually improved their farm operations – a practice their father was adamant about. Over the years, the family has put up silos for feed – one of the first in the area – a manure pit and designed the tiestall barn to last through the times. Don and Peter’s dad was also an early user of haylage. The family even found ways to work around Minnesota Highway 15 built on their land, dividing the property in half, after World War II.
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SETTERGREN from page 19 “Dad wanted to make sure we were going to keep going, so that’s why we did all this,” Don said. “It’s been a gradual process and out of necessity.” As the Settergrens could afford on-farm improvements, they made them. The brothers’ dad was careful with how he spent the farm’s money. “We are thrifty,” Don said. “Dad never spent anything extra.” The same sentiment has been true for Don and Peter, as they have taken the reigns of the farm.
“This is our only income,” Peter said. “Without kids and stuff, our living expenses have been low and that’s how we’ve been able to manage the low prices.” Don agreed. “We purchased the farm on a contract for deed over 15 years, and we took out a loan to purchase the cows. That’s the only loan we’ve ever taken out between the two of us,” he said. “Since we’ve been here, everything we buy or do, we pay
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Tradition guides weather watching
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Dark clouds over farms and new crops were a welcome sight June 9 west of Holdingford. The clouds released rain throughout much of the area, bringing cooler temperatures and relief from hot, dry winds.
by Herman Lensing In a high school poetry class I once took, one poem poked fun at our obsession with weather and the desire to predict it. “Consider calmly if you can, the weather-beaten
weather man,” it opened. I don’t remember the author, but remember that I did smile when reading it. Maybe that’s because I am a Minnesotan. It is said Gopher Staters are among the most weather-conscious and weather knowledgeable people in the nation. It may be true. When I was living in Nebraska and Wisconsin, the weather reports seemed shorter than in Minnesota. The funny thing is, we will watch any weather report or update, then immediately begin finding flaws in the
forecast. More than one of those challenges to a prognostication have a base in folk wisdom. There are a great many sayings about weather that can be applied daily. One most of us learn early is “red at night, you can delight. Red in morning, that’s rain warning.” Translated, that means if the sun goes away unclouded at night, the weather should be sunny the next day. But a cloudy morning can indicate rain. Another predictor of rain in the day is, “Rainbow
in morning gives you fair warning.” There is truth in that. Since rainbows are caused by light shining through water in the air, a rainbow means rain already falling someplace. Seven and eleven seem to be some sort of predictor as in, “No dew by seven, rain by eleven,” and, “If it rains before seven, it will clear before eleven.” That may generally be true, but there have been some daylong rains. You can watch clouds, too. If the clouds are moving against the wind, it
can mean rain, says one part of folklore. Another says clouds moving west will come back with rain. We can check the night sky and see if, “Ring around the moon means rain comes soon” rings true. A bit of lunar weather predicting was handed down from my father, who said the weather on the day of full moon, would be the normal for the next 20 or so days. Folk wisdom weather lore is not simply confined to the short term, although it does tend to be more accurate in the short term.
A prediction of whether spring will be cool or warm is found in the saying, “If it thunders in February, it will frost in May.” There is one saying, “Rain on Easter means rain on the next seven Sundays.” It doesn’t say what happens if there is no rain on Easter. Predicting winter and its severity is something many Minnesotans want to do. There is no end to the predictors of when there will be a harsh winter. If a brown band on a caterpillar is narrow, acorn shells are thick, corn husks are thick and tight, or onion skins are tough, the winter will be rough. Funny thing is, we rarely point out when the folklore predictions fall short of being right. Maybe that is because we are used to that in seeing predictions by weather forecasters fall short of accuracy pretty much daily. The poem made a similar observation in pointing out how we get upset when the prediction is wrong. When all is said and done, the weather predictor cannot win. “If he says fair and fair’s the clime, We say we knew it all the time,” the poem concluded. I still don’t know if that says something of weather, science or human nature. Hope you enjoy the weather.
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varieties of wildflowers spring from the ground. “It’s just quiet and active with wildlife, it’s a very serene place,� Swanson said. More than three decades ago his father, Donald Swanson, began turning the property into Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land, meaning it can no longer be farmed during the CRP contract period and is instead intended to restore native growth, minimize erosion and welcome wildlife to the area. The corn, oats and beans have
been replaced with native prairie plants. A total of 300 of the family’s 440 acres are in the CRP. Mike Swanson has lived on this land since he was 2 years old. It’s where he and his wife, Cheryl, raised their three now-grown children. “We have deep roots there and enjoy the wildlife and just want to keep it in the family,� Swanson said. The Conservation Reserve Program was signed into law in 1985 by then President Ronald Reagan. The program is adminis-
p tered by the Farm Servicer Agency and gives farmerst a yearly rental payment tov maintain land in the program to benefit the envit ronment. The land is mostlyt forbs, native prairie grasses and other native plants,t and field windbreaks. Thep property is home to deer, pheasants, turkeys, small animals and birds. Swanson heads out into the acreage three orp four times a week, walking, hiking and takingb out an ATV to control the j SWANSON l continued on page 25
Swansons’ slowly evolving prairie By SARAH COLBURN Staff Writer DARWIN AND FOREST CITY TOWNSHIPS – Growing up, Mike Swanson saw the change of the seasons in his father’s farm fields. Spring brought a rich
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