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While most of you know me as a farmer wife, I started off as a city girl with plans to move to a big city.  And while I have learned a lot about farming over the past 11 years, there is plenty about the farm industry that I have yet to experience or...

Coming to America as an au pair doesn’t just mean you’ll be providing childcare for your host family. Many au pairs come for educational purposes and to experience American culture, too. And there’s no shortage of places to visit when...

Tomato Quick Facts Name: Tomato Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum Origin South America Colors Pale green turning red, orange, orangey-yellow, yellow, pink, purple, on ripening. Shapes Usually subglobose, but often of varying shape, glabrescent...

The Amana Colonies (1859 – 1932): Utopian Communities Founded in the U.S. Introduction: The Amana Colonies were one of many utopian colonies established on American soil during the 18th and 19th centuries. There were hundreds of communal utopian experiments...

forgotteniowablog: This project can give you a deep itch if you are forced to take a break from it.  Such was the case when we decided to venture over to Iowa County at 3:30PM last week.  We were saving this county specifically for that feeling, knowing...