Tomorrow is National Agriculture Day, a special designation that has been around since 1973. I remember when I first started working for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, I would see a press kit and maybe a fancy poster come through my desk (via snail mail!) – both highlighting why National…
As I have written before, I work for several poultry organizations – specifically, the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and its sister organization the Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council; the Chicken and Egg Association of Minnesota; and the Midwest Poultry Federation. Poultry Central. Right here in Minnesota! I wear many…
I’m exhausted and it’s Sunday night, but I really want to write a blog post and feature the Best Turkey Lasagna. I can’t stand that I’ve had to set aside my blog for this long! So much for my goal of posting once a week. That flew out the window…
Happy Tuesday night! It’s a quiet night at home – my 9-year-old is playing with his new Angry Birds game (a recent birthday gift) and Teacher Man has conferences tonight at school so he won’t be home until later. I was super productive when I got home – made dinner,…
I read an article today in the Twin Cities Star Tribune about how Americans don’t take all of their vacation days either because of a lack of time or a lack of money – or both, I am sure. This isn’t exactly news – I think most of us have…
Social media is an amazing thing – a fantastic way for organizations like mine (see Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and the Chicken and Egg Association of Minnesota) to bring consumers closer to their food and to the farmers who raise their food. But it can also get me all worked…
If you want to see quiet little me get amped up, just start talking about all those horrible hormones and steroids that are fed to turkeys and chickens to make them grow so big and fat that they can’t stand up, much less walk around. That must be why turkeys…
Happy 2013! My family rang in the New Year at our home this year and it was a good one. Certainly it started the right way – with my #9 ranked University of Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s basketball team beating Michigan State. Bring on the Big Ten basketball season! Then…