In about two months or so, I’m going to be an auntie again! My baby sister, Jodi, and her husband are having their own baby – a little girl due January 7 – and this weekend my sister-in-law, Dana, and I threw her a baby shower. Joe was the last…
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I am thrilled to announce a new partnership I have with the American Egg Board to be a Good Egg Project Ambassador, along with several other bloggers! When asked if I would be interested, it took me all of, oh, I’d say five seconds to say yes. Given my background…
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I’ve been working on a very special project this month and I finally get to share it with you! If you’ve read my blog before, then you know I work for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association. This fall, one of our members, who raises turkeys on his family farm in…
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This past weekend, I spent some time at my father-in-law’s home, visiting and catching up on life. We hadn’t visited for a while and we knew it was time for Joe to see his Grandpa Norman again. My mother-in-law, Mary, sadly passed away last February, and while my husband’s family…
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I am in serious denial that it is Sunday night. Serious denial. I’m just not ready to go back to work and the weekday schedule tomorrow. My son would verbalize it this way: I’m just not feeling Monday. But while I can deny all I want, Monday is still coming straight at…
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You might have noticed I have a bit of a poultry thing going on. It hardly seems possible that I have worked on behalf of poultry farmers and companies for 18 years, actually. 18 years. I was young and single and serious and pretty quiet when I started. Now I…
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How was your weekend? Mine was a whirlwind! On Friday night, we made the 5+ hour trip down to Iowa City to visit my sister-in-law and her family, arriving just after 11 p.m. and welcomed with a beer for Teacher Man and glass of wine for me – much needed…
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Deceptive marketing tactics. (Ahem, Panera.) Food fear factor. (That’s you, Chipotle.) Small farmers – good. Big farmers – bad. Big ag – really, really bad. Organic turkeys are happy. Conventional turkeys are confined and unhappy. (And don’t get me started on heritage turkeys.) Heck, everyone knows white eggs can’t compare…