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A HeartySol travel journal from Munich → Hannover → Berlin Traveling Through Germany: Munich, Hannover, and Berlin as Farmers There’s nothing like stepping out of your daily rhythm, hopping across the ocean, and landing in a place where the buildings are older than your entire family tree. This month, we traded our rolling Minnesota fields […]

What Traveling to Germany Taught Us About Farming, Culture, and Seeing the World Differently

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Hannover

There’s nothing like traveling to Italy to remind you how simple, good food can be. While wandering the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany, I spent time with the nonnas—those incredible grandmothers whose hands seem to know every secret of the kitchen. One of the things I fell in love with was the way they make sun-dried […]

From Italy to the Farm: How I Learned to Make Sun-Dried Tomatoes

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Homemade Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Keeping it simple, light, and sweet with these 3-ingredient fruit leather bars! Farm to Lunchbox As summer makes it’s gradual departure, we get to work on canning and jamming to preserve what we have grown this season. With so much fresh produce still on our hands this time of year we also break out our […]

Homemade Fruit Leather | Flavorful Back to School Snack

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Our Farm Update as of late Our family farm, that has been caring for the land and animals while producing wholesome milk since the 1940’s and is currently, this day, in serious danger of having nowhere to go with our milk. To make a long story short, it means there is not a milk processing plant that is able to […]

The Tragedy of Our Time: Is This the End of Our Family’s Farm?

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valley acres dairy family

Meet Emily, the voice, writer, and photographer behind the Blog Hearty Sol Hey I’m Emily! First of all, it’s a crazy world out there, people and I have no idea where any of our social platforms are headed, but I can tell you this. As long as internet and computers are a thing I will […]

About Our Farm

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