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Country Acres Saturday, Saturd day, October 21, 2023
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Wyatt Gerads, Russ Gerads, Carla Gerads, Polly Stish, Dave Stish and Nolan Gerads, of Triple S Pumpkins, hold their favorite pumpkin varieties, Mrs. Wrinkles, Cronus, Gumdrop, Field Trip, Scarface and Polar Bear respectively at their farm near Royalton. The farm provides more than 50 kinds of edible and decorative pumpkins and squash.
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small amount of seeds Triple S Pumpkins offers and see if people like community learning, colorful fun it,” Carla Gerads said. BY SARAH COLBURN STAFF WRITER
ROYALTON — Bright reds, blushing pinks, warm oranges, buttery yellows and deep greens dot the landscape at Triple S Pumpkins. The 220acre farm near Royalton is home to more than 50 varieties of edible and decorative pumpkins and squash. The farmers of Triple S Pumpkins, Carla and Russ Gerads, in partnership with Dave and Polly Stish, pride themselves on variety.
They carry all kinds of aptly named pumpkins from the Baby Boo and the Casperita — the smallest of the farm’s white pumpkins — to those with quirky names like Mrs. Wrinkles, a ribbed pumpkin, to Popcorn, complete with warts, and a medium-sized yellow number called Mellow Yellow. They also have a pink Porcelain Doll pumpkin, a red Cinderella pumpkin and tan pumpkins coined Long Island Cheese and Hot Chocolate. “We start with a
In total, the Geradses and Stishes put 33,000 seeds into the ground using a vacuum planter around Memorial Day of each year. Roughly 10 acres is planted with pumpkins and squash. Then, with the help of friends and family, they begin harvesting mid-September, cutting the pumpkins and squash off the vine. Squash and specialty items are stored in the farm store area or in bins in the open-air sales shed. Most of the pumpkins are left in the patch
for guests to pick their own. The team works together to find the unusual varieties, scouring seed catalogs and gleaning research from conferences and other farmers.
They sometimes choose seeds that will grow similarly but
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A variety of pumpkins adorn a vignette at Triple S Pumpkins near Royalton. There are places set up throughout the farm for families to pose for photos.
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Gerads/Stish from front size and coloration. They opt for bush-growing plants over too many vining plants to save on space. Roughly 75% of what they grow are pumpkins and the remainder is squash. “Most people are using it for decor and carving jack-o’-lanterns or painting the pumpkins,” Gerads said. “A lot of our squash can be decorative and eaten afterward.” Butternut, spaghetti and acorn squash are staples, but they offer 12 other varieties of edible squash as well. The idea is to create variety along with fall fun and, during the week, education. Their site offers not only pumpkins and squash but also mums, cornstalks, large and small straw bales, broom corn, ornamental corn and crafts
they have made themselves including wooden and metal pumpkins and trees and stacks of painted books. The couples also grow sweet corn and open a corn walk, petting zoo and play equipment for guests. This year, they also opened their doors for a create-your-own-succulent pumpkin class in conjunction with The Pink and White boutique greenhouse in Pierz, and they plan to offer more classes. While Triple S Pumpkins welcomes hundreds of visitors per day to the farm on the weekends, they are also busy during the week. The farm is open during the week by reservation for school field trips and homeschool groups. “We teach them about
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The sales barn at Triple S Pumpkins is filled with decor, squash, pumpkins, ornamental corn and hay bales for sale. The pumpkins and squash are grown on roughly 10 acres of the 220-acre farm. (Above) Corbin Yourczek rests on a pumpkin this fall at Triple S Pumpkins near Royalton. Yourczek is 4 ½ years old.
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Carter Holmquist shoots in a 3D shoot at 6 years old. Holmquist, of Benson, enjoys the sport of archery alongside his family members.
BENSON — When Tadd Egenes moved to Benson from southern Minnesota, he noticed a need in the community. That need was an archery club. “One of the benefits when you are at the range is there usually ends up being someone else up there at the same time,” Egenes said. “A lot of the members have a lot of skills in setting up the bow, and they’re willing to help anyone. All you have to do is ask a question, and they’ll be more than willing to help.” Since its founding in 2006, Swift County Archers offers an indoor space for archers to gain practice and knowledge while participating in friendly competition. Egenes, who served as club president for six years, worked with others to secure and remodel a space to serve the club’s needs. The club has been operating ever since in the upstairs portion of the American Family Insurance building on Pacific Avenue. The range allows about
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Archers from page 5 “It is something I’ve always enjoyed,” Holmquist said. “It’s more of a challenge to bow hunt. The premise is the deer don’t know you’re there. So, they just go about how they live their normal lives.” Swift County Archers also offers a winter league for about 12 weeks every year. Teams are formed by random draw, and a handicap similar to that of bowling is used to ensure all archers
are on a level playing field to shoot their league scores. At the culmination of the winter league, the club hosts a banquet to acknowledge the top three teams, the most consistent shooter and the most improved shooter, among other accolades. “There’s a social aspect to it,” Holmquist said. “It’s a camaraderie between archery people.” Holmquist said archery is unique in that, within reason, a person’s physical condition does not deter them from being able to shoot a bow. “We have people who shoot pretty
minimal poundage,” he said. Having access to a heated, indoor range allows club members to enhance their skills. “With archery, it’s self-discipline because you control how everything works on that shot,” Holmquist said. “You learn to be consistent in everything you do because that’s key to being really accurate.” The club also co-hosts a 3D shoot every summer with the Little Crow Archers of Willmar at the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in Kandiyohi County. For one weekend, registrants have
Members of Swift County Archers prepare to shoot in the club’s indoor range in Benson. Founded in 2006, the club offers youth classes, a winter league and a summer 3D shoot.
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Egenes said he appreciates archery for its lifetime aspect. “If you shoot archery, you can do that your whole life,” he said. “We’ve had people in their 70s and 80s who have shot bow. I started teaching my one daughter when she was 3, so that’s quite a range.” Egenes said Swift County Archers has always stressed exposing children to archery. That exposure naturally grows as children age and incorporates their parents and families too. “It’s fun to watch the kids from when they start shooting at 4 or 5 to when there are kids who are graduating high school,” Egenes said. “You really get to know them.” Members of Swift County Archers have also gone on to compete in the state indoor shoot as well as at national competitions. Competition aside, Egenes said he enjoys putting the archery skills
he has honed during practice to good use during bow deer hunting season mid-September through the end of the year. “I enjoy the silence and the things you get to see that you normally wouldn’t see when you are gun hunting because you get to hunt so many more days,” he said. “I’ve watched hawks grab a squirrel. One day, I saw a fawn chasing a raccoon, and about two minutes later, it came back round the other way and the raccoon was chasing the fawn.” Swift County Archers allows people of varying ages and backgrounds to bond over a common interest. For Egenes, the club’s members are like family. “There are guys who will help each other if someone shoots a deer and needs help to drag a deer out,” he said. “Especially during the league and when it gets close to the state tournament, if someone is having trouble with their bow, you have friends there to help work on it. … We do try to do things together quite a bit.”
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Time Sieben Farm marks a century BY TIFFANY KLAPHAKE STAFF WRITER
Sieben now uses tractors and skid loaders to get the job done around the farm. However, he did not always farm that way. Growing up near Savage, the only farm experience Sieben had was helping his grandparents on their farm in central Minnesota. Being his mother had grown up there, Sieben would oftentimes spend his summers helping his grandparents, Charles and Blanche Johnson, farm. “Grandpa worked everything with horses and sold
milk in cans,” Sieben said. “I farmed with horses until I took over from Grandpa in 1972. I remember cutting hay with a horse when I was 10 years old.” After Sieben graduated from high school, he moved to Burtrum to farm with his grandparents. For Sieben, the road to farming was a bumpy one. When he took over the dairy farm from his grandpa,
Sieben wanted to buy what would be the farm’s first tractor, but the bank would only give him a loan if he increased his 15-cow herd to ensure a higher paycheck.
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The barn Mark Sieben used to milk cows in still stands tall Sept. 7 at the Sieben farm near Burtrum. The barn was built in the 1940s.
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BURTRUM — Mark Sieben’s ancestors lived in logging sheds on the property he now calls home. They worked the land with horses and milked cows by hand. Today, Sieben, his wife Deb, and their son Justin have nine turkey barns between two farms and a third farm site that is co-owned and operated with Sieben’s brothersin-law, all near Burtrum. The Siebens also raise over 200 beef cattle and farm 500 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa in the rolling, rocky hills of southern Todd County.
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“I milked 30 cows and rented a couple of other farms,” Sieben said. “I milked cows there too; I was single and I had a couple of hired guys to help me. I would milk cows during the day and clean turkey barns at night.” By 1975, a severe drought came, and dry conditions remained through 1976. The well on the farm dried up and interest rates skyrocketed. Then, his grandpa passed away, leaving Sieben to farm solo. “I tried renting better land, but everything around here is sand, and until irrigation came in, you couldn’t grow anything in those dry years,” Sieben said. “Those drought years were too much. My well dried up, and I couldn’t make any money.” Sieben was forced to sell the cows in 1977 and went to work for a construction company in Little Falls, all the while crop farming on his land and selling the hay. During those years, Sieben met and married his wife, who grew up
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Cattle relax in the shade Sept. 7 at the Sieben farm near Burtrum. The Siebens’ beef herd is mostly comprised of Red Angus and Black Angus.
Saturday, October 21, 2023 | Country Acres • Page 13 cows and sold their milk in cans, just like Sieben did until he sold the cows in 1988. Sieben still has the equipment used from farming with horses, and the house built in 1895 by the first set of Johnsons still stands in the pasture. Inside the Sieben house are several restored antiques that hold memories and serve as reminders of his family’s farm history, a story on which Sieben has made his own mark. Today — with 225,000 turkeys, 200 head of cattle, and 500 acres of cropland thriving under his farm’s care — Sieben can look back at his life so far and see a journey filled with memorable twists and turns and plenty of hard work. He has also more than earned some downtime and is letting go of some of that work as his son takes over the farming operation. “Now, I only do what I can do,” he said. “I don’t overdo it anymore.”
Sieben from page 12 turkeys. I didn’t want to at first, but then I decided to bite the bullet and invest in turkey barns.” The decision proved to be profitable. “I ran four barns with my brother-in-law Mike,” Sieben said. “We did good with those years; we were able to pay off those four barns in 10 years.” Sieben’s son, Justin, worked in construction after high school but started helping Sieben on the farm and eventually invested in turkey barns himself. Now they farm together, and Sieben is starting to take a step back as grandkids are also starting to help farm. Sieben’s mother researched their family history and traced his ancestry on the Johnson side all the way back to the 1890s when his great-grandparents, Pete
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Deb (from left), Justin and Mark Sieben gather Sept. 7 in their cattle pen at their farm near Burtrum. The Sieben farm was recognized as a century farm this year.
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Country Cooking RECIPES SUBMITTED BY TAMMY BRETH | St. Anthony, Stearns County
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Broccoli cauliflower bacon salad
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• 1 cup raw broccoli • 1 cup raw cauliflower • 1 cup shredded cheese
• 1 whole chicken • 1 small onion • 5 carrots • 3 celery stalks
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour • 3/4 cup baking cocoa • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder • 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 8 slices bacon • 1/2 cup sugar • 1 cup mayonnaise • 2 tablespoons vinegar
Chop vegetables. Fry bacon; crumble. Mix together all ingredients.
Meat loaf • 2 cups soda crackers • 1 1/2 pounds ground beef • 1 egg • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 3 tablespoons chicken bullion • 2 cups uncooked wild rice • 2 pints half-and-half
Cook chicken in boiling water in large pot. Remove from pot and shred chicken; set aside. Cut up and cook vegetables in broth. Prepare the rice in a separate pot with boiling water. Cook until tender; then add to vegetables. Add shredded chicken back to broth along with wild rice and half-and-half. Cook until heated through. If desired, mix 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 1/2 cup water in separate bowl and whisk into soup to make it thicker.
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Todd Gylsen (left) and Brent Gulsvig hang out under the Fright Nights sign Sept. 27 in Glenwood. The haunted house attraction is in its final year as its lease has expired.
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Their driver’s licenses may say Todd Gylsen, Brent Gulsvig and Steve Meyers, but at this time of year, the three men are better known as Zippy, Buzzkill and Skull Boy, respectively. This trio is the mastermind behind the Fright Nights haunted house in Glenwood, but this year, as the attraction is set to close for good, they are focused on giving their patrons one last hurrah — or rather, one last scream. “It’ll be one of those things where you’re sad to see it go … but it is what it is,” Gulsvig said. “We’ve had it for years and made a good run of it.” Gylsen and Gulsvig grew up in Glenwood, and when they moved out of state, they both worked in haunted houses — Gylsen in Omaha, Nebraska, and Gulsvig in Green Bay, Wisconsin — prior to returning to the area of their hometown and taking charge of Fright Nights in 2011. The attraction started as Pope County Fright Nights by a local nonprofit. The pair designed and built the haunted house’s rooms in between their day jobs, often working on them until about midnight. They added an additional building their second year, but they still had to tear down their haunted house at the end of each season.
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