At the Alpaca Farm Story and Photos by Lorie Palmer A few years ago, when my husband and I were out for a drive from Grangeville, we ambled down rural Talmaks Road off U.S. Highway 95 just west
Ode to the Trusty Toolbox By Clark Ballard Swathers hadn’t yet been developed for haying season when I was a teenaged tractor operator on farms near Fairfield during summers in the mid-1950s. We operated the now-defunct Farmall tractors
On the Family Farm By David E. Metcalf How many strawberries have you eaten already?” my brother Loren inquired. “None,” I said, and tried to cover the stains around my mouth. When I was a toddler in the
Idaho Farms Import South African Laborers Story and Photos by Diana Hooley The harvest was busy last September in the farming community where I live on the Snake River near Mountain Home. The rhythmic grind of hay-balers could
But Not at Your Typical Kitchen Garden By Les Tanner “Who brought the peppers?” someone asked. She pointed at a box that sat on the bench in the gym. “Connie did.” As was common in September, people who
Work and Hospitality on the Range Story and Photos by Brian Parry In the summer of 2019, I spent a week with my friends Jim and Jacque Moreno and their family on a beautiful 122-acre ranch near Culdesac.
Endangered Family Farms Stick Together Story and Photos by Richard Mouser In 2005, my family made the decision to move away from the suburban neighborhoods of Eagle and buy an old home in the outskirts of Boise, on
But the Sows Still Sing Story and Photos by Diana Hooley Idaho is not really a pig state. That distinction probably goes to our misnomer, Iowa, but I’ve always liked pigs. Growing up in the ’60s, I thought
A Family on the Move By Lena G. Hall Photos courtesy of Helen Wood The Fisher family of Eagle came to Idaho by wagon train from Iowa via Kansas in 1889, after so many moves that their descendants
As a farm kid, I faced some pretty scary bullies, but I knew the secrets to keeping them at bay. On our farm at the edge of the Clearwater National Forest just outside Grangeville, I faced my bullies at chore time. Continue reading
