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TURNER COUNTY FAMILY

Terry and Sam Weber; Lucas Jacobson; Charlotte, Stetson, Richard, Jason and Jackie Lounsbery.

CHOOSING THE FARM WAS AN EASY DECISION

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Members of the Lounsbery family are pretty tied to farming and life in the country.

“We lived in Hurley, which obviously is a very small town,” said Jackie Lounsbery. “But that was too much city life for Jason.” They cured Jason’s city-claustrophobia by moving to his childhood home at Pondview Farm south of Davis when Jackie’s daughter Sam was about 10 and son Lucas was seven.

Jason said farming was always his career goal. “My grandpa presented me the opportunity when I was still in high school. I always looked up

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to my dad and granddad my whole life. I always wanted to do what they did, so it made the decision pretty easy.”

Richard Lounsbery said his fatherin-law, John Ludens, made him a similar offer a number of years earlier. Richard grew up on his parents’ farm south of Centerville but, in 1973, he was working in Vermillion at a landscaping business and flower shop.

“Charlotte’s dad made me the offer

to come farm. He said he’d give me awhile to think about it.

I went down the basement and said ‘I’ve already decided what I want to do.’”

In recent years, Richard and Jason have made invitations to the farm operation to Jason’s stepson, Lucas Jacobson, and Sam’s husband, Terry Weber. Richard said he, Jason, Lucas and Terry have complementary skills. “We have so many different talents here between the four of us. As far as working on the machinery, there’s not a lot of stuff we can’t do.” Jason said, “We’re blessed to keep in it in the family.”

Charlotte Lounsbery said the farm has been in her family since 1884 when it was purchased by her great grandfather, Jurgen Rieman. “His daughter was my grandma and then it passed to the generation of my mom (Ronelle Ludens), then Richard and me, now Jason.” Jason and Jackie’s 10-yearold son, Stetson, along with Lucas and Terry, are the sixth generation of the family to work the land.

“Mom and Dad moved out here in ’54,” Charlotte said, “They were here until they retired and moved into Lennox.

When I was a little kid, we had a few head of cattle and a few hogs, some chickens, and we had turkeys who were mean and would chase us.”

Charlotte’s dad and husband fed cattle under the name L&L Feeders for many years. The family corporation name has stuck around even though they gave up feeding cattle in the early 2000’s. With the pond at the farm site, environmental regulations coming online at the time helped them decide to focus on grain farming. But the name still fits, Charlotte said, because they do help to feed the world.

Jason, Jackie and Stetson Lounsbery; Lucas Jacobson; and Sam and Terry Weber.

Her father worked to ensure there was another market for their corn. “My dad was one of the founding members of the POET ethanol plant in Chancellor. So, instead of feeding our corn to cattle, we decided to sell it for ethanol. It’s been corn and beans since then,” she said.

Over the years, they’ve picked up more land to farm, both through purchases and by renting. Their land goes as far south as Irene and as far north as Lennox. From transporting equipment, Lucas knows that it’s 26 miles between the furthest stretches of land. “Twenty-six miles takes a while at 16 miles per hour,” he said.

Richard said they have good landlords and he feels fortunate that most of the landlords for whom they farm ground have approached them with the work. “We treat every piece of ground like we own it and we take a lot of pride in what we do,” he said.

Charlotte said, “We’re honest and keep everything on the up-and-up. I think we’ve all got a good work ethic. You see something that needs to be done, you do it.”

Charlotte does the bookwork for the farm, but said she’s trying to pass that on to Jackie, who has been in banking for more than 20 years. Sam is director of a daycare in Harrisburg. Charlotte joked that Sam’s husband, Terry, is

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Last year, when school was out because of Covid, Stetson loved it that he was able to be doing his homework while being out in the field with his dad.”

Sam said, “When they spend so much time in the field, you appreciate the time you do have with them.”

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“an import” because he’s originally from way over in Bridgewater.

“But I don’t have an accent,” he joked. Terry has a background in carpentry and “knows a little about a lot of things.” Lucas has a degree in diesel mechanics.

Another important part of farming is the willingness to adjust with circumstances, Jackie said. “We’ve done Thanksgiving meals in the field. For a number of years, we’d

Jackie said, “When Jason coached flag football, he’d come to the house for a quick pit stop, then head over to practice in his grubby clothes. You just have to make that adjustment to have the family time,” she said. When they’re not in the field, the family enjoys camping and trips to the Black Hills. Richard and Jason have been going on an annual snowmobile trip together for 20 years. Richard and Charlotte have a Mustang convertible which they take on a trip with friends in the fall.

Family togetherness also extends to time spent with their two daughters. Amanda is a physical therapist. Her husband, Jerry Marts, works at POET in Chancellor.

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Ethan, and live in Parker. Daughter Jessica is a speech therapist. Her husband, Shawn Vannorsdel, is a farmer. Jessica, Shawn and their son, River, live near Viborg.

Off the farm, Richard has been an elder and a deacon at church, was a Turner County commissioner, and was on the planning and zoning board (and is still an alternate).

Charlotte has participated in the Davis Winterstock theatre group for 38 years, plus plays piano and is on the praise team at Ebenezer Presbyterian Church in Lennox.

Their faith life is important to them, especially two years ago when Charlotte was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is what her dad died from. “Thank God, I’m cured. We caught it early, so that was key. I had lots of support, lots of prayer warriors and a great medical team.

“We’ve learned we have to look beyond ourselves,” she said. “We have to humble ourselves and realize that we need the power of God and things will happen in his time. He’s the one in control.

Even though we have lots of accomplishments, it’s not by our doing. All our skills, talents and health are given to us by God.”

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MINNEHAHA COUNTY FAMILY

BRINGING HOME THE EGG MONEY

By Bob Fitch

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Not so long ago, many South Dakota farm families relied on “egg money” as one of their few sources of steady income or credit at the grocery store.

Mom and the kids collected the eggs daily, while Dad tended to the livestock and crops which, hopefully, would yield a profit.

In a way, everything old in agriculture is new again. Many farmers today have moved away from synthetic fertilizers in favor of using manure to enrich the soil as was the norm in all history before the end of World War II. Yesterday’s Victory Gardens are emulated by the backyard gardens which so many Americans planted in the wake of the pandemic last spring.

Much of Stephanie Peterson’s world involves making the old new again. Not only does this Brandon farmer bring home the egg money each week, but she also invests much of her time educating new farmers and others about how to adapt old-fashioned approaches to farming for the next generation of Americans.

Stephanie spent her youngest years in the Lemmon, S.D., area where her grandparents were cattle ranchers. Her family moved to Rapid City where her father entered the retail field.

Stephanie graduated from Rapid City Stevens High School and Augustana University. She hoped to become a veterinarian, “but the chemistry killed me.” Instead she took a path into government service.

Stephanie Peterson harvests eggs from chickens on her farm near Brandon.

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“I was always into politics. I started volunteering on political campaigns when I was in middle school. When I graduated from Augie in ’92, I started working for Tom Daschle in his Sioux Falls office and did case work. I moved to D.C. in ’93 and worked in his D.C. office for the next 10 years.

That was great.” She met her husband, Gregg Brown, in Washington. “We bought our first house, started our family out there. After our first child was born, I did stay home. For the next 10 years, I homeschooled my kids.”

In 2014, though, they made a decision to leave the rat race of Washington behind them. “We picked up our lives, moved across the country and changed everything,” Stephanie said. Her parents had retired in the Sioux Falls area, so they followed them to Minnehaha County. Her husband is a commercial real estate broker and partowner of NAI Sioux Falls. They have two sons: Nick is a student at the University of South Dakota and Cooper is a junior at Brandon Valley High School.

“I wanted to re-invent myself in some way.

I wanted some kind of small farm. My passion was trying to work in some form of sustainable agriculture. I wanted to support a more diverse approach to agriculture.” She harvests and sells eggs from pasture-raised hens under the farm name “Fruit of the Coop.” While her farm is small, she has been intent on making it a profitable, full-time venture.

Stephanie Peterson with her husband and sons: Gregg, Cooper and Nick Brown.

“It grew slowly. The pandemic in 2020-21 has really launched my business more than any other year. Local food is booming right now. ‘Know your farmer’ is booming right now.” Fruit of the Coop currently sells eggs to about nine restaurants, two retail locations and two farms that run CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture). She sells about 100 dozen eggs per week.

“My model is a little different. I would need about 500 of my own hens to keep that kind of supply and I don’t want 500 hens. I keep about 100 hens, that’s my sweet spot. Then I buy eggs from about 10 other suppliers. So I act in the capacity of a wholesaler. I have vetted the practices and product of the other producers. All their hens are pasture-raised like mine.

I’m super picky about the taste and quality of the eggs.” She then works directly to make the sale with chefs in Sioux Falls.

“When I’m going into a restaurant, I’m meeting with chefs and bringing samples. They cook the samples and we have real serious discussions about taste and quality because I’m asking them to pay more for eggs than they would have off a Sysco truck. I love that there’s a taste, a quality, a nutritional piece to this type of egg, this way of raising animals.”

In her garage, she has a commercial egg washer and refrigerator and washing station. “Generally, the first half of my week is picking up eggs from suppliers; then mid-week I’m washing and packaging; and Fridays and Saturdays are my delivery dates to restaurants,” she said.

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“Most of my other time is spent with advocacy work with sustainable and regenerative agriculture.” Stephanie is on the board of Dakota Rural Action (DRA), and does some advocacy work for them in both D.C. and in Pierre.

DRA has a program called Farm Beginnings South Dakota that’s part of a national organization called Farm Beginnings Collaborative. “Once a year, DRA has a college-level class for new and beginning-level farmers. You pay tuition to take it and runs over about 10 Saturdays. It’s followed up with mentorships and farm tours.

“It’s a holistic approach to farming, incorporating your business into your family life. It looks at the whole picture from your values, your goals, your business plan, your family plan, your marketing, all the way. It covers all the bases.”

She also serves on the National Family Farm Coalition board of directors, the Sustainability Committee for the city of Sioux Falls, and is a member of the Food Security Action Team for Sioux Falls Thrive. “I also went crazy last year and started my own nonprofit. It’s basically urban agriculture in Sioux Falls. I’m in the process of leasing a two-acre plot of land from the city in the riverside neighborhood

across from Smithfield. We’re going to do some urban agriculture there, specifically geared towards children and education.”

She defined sustainable agriculture as sustaining resources as-is – such as preserving soil from further erosion or loss of fertility.

“Regenerative agriculture means you’re actually making it better.

You’re actually improving the soil. A lot of practices like no-till and cover crops are regenerative.

Getting animals back on the land, rotational grazing, is regenerative.

That’s super key for people to understand. It’s not good enough to keep it as-is, we need to make it better.”

Every summer, she rents goats from VanMeeteren Farms in Minnesota and they bring them to her farm. “Every five days, I rotate them from one part of my pasture to the next, and we just go around my whole property. That’s basically how I control all the invasive weeds in my pasture. It’s obviously more labor- and time-intensive than chemicals, but it also restores the ground. I’m starting to see all kinds of native grasses regenerating in my pasture even without me seeding anything. That’s important to me.”

The organizations she’s part of are also focused on resiliency – how do you become resilient in the face of crisis? The pandemic brought this issue to the forefront when bottlenecks developed in the national food supply chain.

The Dakota Rural Action chapter in Sioux Falls is called Homegrown Sioux Empire. “We spend a lot of time teaching people how to raise their own food in an urban setting.

If a pandemic happens and the grocery store shelves are bare, you can grow food and support your own family from what’s in your yard. Yes, it’s like going back to the way it used to be.

“I’m not naïve enough to think commercial agriculture is going to go away. I’m trying to build something that’s real. We do have different ways to do things. There’s room for everybody.”

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“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

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HUTCHINSON COUNTY FAMILY

LEISCHNERS MOVE FROM GENERATION 5 TO 6 TO 7

By Bob Fitch

Terry and Kristie Leischner represent the fifth generation of their family to farm Section 29 of Milltown Township east of Parkston in Hutchinson County. Generation six is now up to bat and generation seven is growing up on the farm.

A little help from one generation to the next has helped make the past 130 years possible.

First-generation family pioneers Johan Leischner and his wife Justine homesteaded in Milltown Township in 1891. These German-from-Russia immigrants eventually deeded their land to son, Daniel. He and his wife Maria deeded the land to their son, Solomon. But Solomon died young, leaving his wife, Pauline, with a big debt to pay and three small mouths to fill. Grandfather Daniel died about this same time. Despite the circumstances of death in the midst of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, Pauline held the land together and purchased even more.

Terry and Kristie Leischner; and Brooklyn, Jenaya, Brantley and Matt Brengle.

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Eventually, Pauline was able to deed the land to her son, John, and his sisters. He later purchased his sisters’ shares. Terry said, “My dad, John, started farming in the eighth

grade. He did nine weeks of high school – he went out for football.

But then he had to stay home to pick corn and he got way behind in school, so he dropped out.” But John was successful enough to give Terry a helping hand in the 1970s.

Terry also got a leg up back in the ‘70s when a neighbor “paid it forward” by giving the 22-yearold a chance to buy an acreage adjacent to the Leischner home farm so he could start his own cow-calf herd. Acquiring farmland is a challenge for many farmers and Terry said, “It’s tough when a piece of ground you’ve rented and farmed for 20 years comes up for sale on auction and everybody’s bidding on it.” But Leischners have felt fortunate that they’ve been able to purchase land from descendants of relatives and from the heirs of long-term landlords. “When you have that good relationship with your landlords, that’s irreplaceable,” Kristie said.

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Now Terry and Kristie Leischner are doing what they can to help the sixth and seventh generations living on their farm make a go of it.

Before moving back to the farm in 2015, their oldest daughter, Jenaya, went to Black Hills State University in Spearfish and had a career in social work. She married Matt Brengle in 2013 at Placerville Church Camp in the Black Hills.

Matt grew up working cattle on his grandfather’s ranch near Buffalo in Harding County. “There was no one in our family to run the farm, so a couple years after we got married, we moved here. There’s no way Matt and I would have ever have had the opportunity without Mom and Dad,” Jenaya said.

Matt learned about row crops by the seat of his pants the first year (the farm has corn, soybeans, rye and hay). Jenaya said, “When we started harvest, Dad was in the hospital. A guy who helped Dad harvest previously taught Matt how to run the combine. And he just had to do it on the fly.” Kristie said, “That’s kind of how Terry taught Matt the planter too – just get in the tractor and do it.” Terry added: “That’s the only way you learn.”

While Terry is still fully engaged in farming, he and Kristie moved off the home place to allow Jenaya and Matt to take the lead on calving and finishing the feeder cattle. The younger couple are also the parents of the farm’s seventh generation: son Brantley is 3 years old and daughter Brooklyn is 4 months.

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Kristie said, “On some of the coldest days in January two years ago, we switched houses. We had three vehicles backed up to the door – one designated as ‘toss,’ one for donations, and one for things to move.” Terry added, “Everybody should move more than once. It’s a good way to get rid of a lot of stuff.”

Matt said his in-laws moved to a Milltown suburb – the house three-tenths of a mile north at the top of the hill. Terry said, “Somebody told me I needed to run for mayor when I moved up there, but I haven’t got my petition out yet.” The mayoral responsibilities would be heavy because Milltown is a city of growth. The town’s population increased 25 percent between 2000 and 2010. It was home to eight people in the 2000 census, but jumped to 10 by the 2010 census. 2020 figures are yet to be released.

The Leischner family with their farms 125th anniversary plaque: Matt, Jenaya, Betty (Terry’s step-mother), Terry and Kristie.

Jenaya continued her career as a social worker, based out of Mitchell, after they moved back to the farm. However, about 1½ years ago, she went to work for the Hutchinson County Extension Service as the county’s 4-H youth program advisor.

“I loved what I did, but I just didn’t want to be so far away from home all the time.” Now, she helps run all of the county’s 4-H programs including those at the fairgrounds and provides leadership and planning in concert with the other local 4-H advisor and 4-H volunteers.

“Social work was hard. There were kids in some really tough situations. There are some of those kids I still think about,” Jenaya said. “The 4-H world is nice because the parents Whether and kids all want to be there. They want something for you’re seekmore in g living comm a skilled, ass their families.” u

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added, “From the time he was little, he would turn off the sound on the TV sometimes and do the play-byplay calling.”

Terry and Kris' youngest daughter, Darcy, teaches high school psychology in Nashville, Tenn. After earning her bachelor’s degree in communication studies and psychology, Darcy was recruited by the Teach for America (TFA) program to teach in Nashville.

Through TFA she earned a master’s degree in education from Lipscomb University and has established a strong school community after teaching at the same school for eight years. Darcy and her husband, Bill, who is a project manager for an education company, are expecting their first child in September.

Kristie has a whole other family with whom she spends considerable time. She has taught young elementary age (K-1-2-3) students at a local Hutterite Colony for the last 29 years. “They’re my family, my kids, my mom’s, my dad’s, my grandma’s. I had coffee with one of my grandma’s before I came home the other day. They feed me every day. When Terry and I have been sick, they’ve sent food to us. They are great cooks.”

Jenaya said, “They send food for us during harvest. The booties on Brooklyn’s feet were given to me before I was even pregnant. The stocking hat on her head is from the colony. There’s all kinds of neat things because of the familial connections.”

Kristie is also in charge of booking out the portion of Leischner’s beef cattle herd which is processed for specific customers who appreciate quality beef and want to buy a quarter, half or whole beef. While the demand is there to directsell more to local consumers, the processing capacity at area lockers just isn’t there, especially since the pandemic. Leischners are already booked well out into 2022 at the Kaylor Locker.

When Kristie is booking the beef, Terry spends time as president of the Protestant Cemetery Association and being a township supervisor. “The only way to get rid of that job is to move out of the township. But I didn’t move far enough north.” He also served many years on the rural fire board.

Both Terry and Kris are active in the Parkston Congregational Church.

“Our church family is important to us. There’s a core group that we

An aerial view of the Leischner farm.

eat lunch with and that we sing with, disagree with, and get along with,” Kristie said.

Both she and Terry have had significant health issues on-and-off over the years. Kristie said, “One of the times when Terry was his sickest, he had an infection that blew up in his neck. I stayed with one of our landlords while Terry was in the hospital. I only slept that night because when I went to bed, I saw the landlord in her room praying scripture over us out loud.

“I don’t need to mean to spoil the ending, but the phrase, ‘It’s all going to be ok. Love, God’ has gotten me through a lot of days and is still getting me through,” she said.

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KEEPING LOCAL HISTORY ALIVE

O.E. ROLVAAG AND THE NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN DAKOTA Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in 1876 in the Norwegian hamlet of Rölvaag, a small fishing community on Dønna Island just below the Arctic Circle. When he was 20, he immigrated to Elk Point, S.D. In 1931, he died in Northfield, Minn. In between those life markers, Rølvaag attended Augustana Academy in Canton, met his future wife in rural Garretson, and wrote Giants in the Earth, a towering novel of the Norwegian-American immigrant experience on the prairie.

As a young man, Rolvaag was a fisherman with his father and brothers in the seas around Dønna Island. The impressions of his childhood and young manhood stayed with him throughout his life. In his writings, he used Norwegian ballads, hymns and folklore; and utilized sea-going themes and images.

An uncle who had emigrated to America sent him a ticket in the summer of 1896, and he traveled to Union County, South Dakota, to work as a farmhand. He settled in Elk Point and worked there until 1898. With the help of his pastor, Rølvaag enrolled in Augustana Academy in Canton where he graduated in 1901. He went on to earn bachelor's and master’s degrees from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., where he eventually became a professor.

O.E. Rolvaag.

O.E. Rolvaag’s most noted work was Giants in the Earth.

While a student at Augustana Academy, Rølvaag met James Berdahl and frequently made visits to the home of Berdahl’s parents, James and Karen (Otterness), who were Norwegian immigrants who had homesteaded southwest of Garretson.

Rølvaag listened to the stories of the Berdahls and other Norwegian immigrant settlers – stories that helped form the basis for his future novels. Later, Rølvaag would marry his friend’s sister, Jennie Marie Berdahl. Her parents’ home is known today as the Berdahl-Rolvaag house and is in Heritage Park on the campus of Augustana University in Sioux Falls.

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and Riket grundlæges (“The Kingdom Is Founded,” 1925), were translated as Giants in the Earth (1927). It was based partly upon Rolvaag's personal experiences as a settler and also the experiences of his wife's family. The novel realistically treats the lives and trials of Norwegian pioneers in the Midwest, emphasizing their battles with the elements. The book also portrays the trials of loneliness, separation from family, longing for the old country, and the difficulty of fitting into a new culture. Peder Victorious (1929) and Their Father’s God (1931) continued the story to the second generation.

A founder of the Norwegian-American Historical Association in 1925, Rølvaag tirelessly urged immigrants to retain their customs, their speech, and their church, believing that American society would be the richer.

In addition to the Berdahl-Rolvaag house, Augustana’s Heritage Park is also home to the Rølvaag Writing Cabin, in which Giants in the Earth was written. The family believed it was appropriate to have the cabin close to the BerdahlRolvaag House in which O.E. Rolvaag heard many of the stories that were incorporated in his novels. The cabin previously stood on U.S. Forest Service land on Big Island Lake in northern Minnesota and faced destruction if it were not moved. Two Finnish carpenters dismantled the cabin and reassembled it in Heritage Park.

Also in Augustana’s Heritage Park is Beaver Creek Lutheran Church, one of the oldest churches established in Lincoln County. It was completed in 1892 in LaValley Township east of Sioux Falls. The architectural style is Vernacular Gothic Revival, which attempts to combine European attributes with the prairie experience. After the church closed in 1978, the building was moved to Augustana in 1985.

Finally, Heritage Park is home to the Eggers School House, an example of early South Dakota educational facilities.

The school was built in 1909 on an acre of land near Renner Corner. It served an average of 15 students for almost 50 years before it closed.

Heritage Park is located south of 33rd Street between Grange and Prairie Avenue. Facilities are typically open for visitation and tours each Sunday from 2-4 p.m. from midJune through August.

SOURCES

• www.augie.edu/nordland-heritage-foundation/about-heritage-park • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Edvart_R%C3%B8lvaag • www.britannica.com/biography/O-E-Rolvaag • plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.lt.067 • plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ea.014 • www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCEW_Berdahl_Rolvaag_House

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LINCOLN COUNTY FAMILY

The Winquist family: Craig, Kari, Carla, Curt, Conley, Kamden and Corbin.

MAKING A LIFE OUT OF AGRICULTURE

By Bob Fitch

Craig and Kari Winquist of Canton want their sons to learn the lessons of responsibility and hard work which got their lives started out on the right foot.

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“Right now, we don’t make a living out of agriculture, but we make a life out of it,” Craig said. “For me, I want these boys to know what it’s like to see baby animals be born and to feed livestock. I want our boys to experience the life I grew up around – it taught me so many things.”

Craig grew up on a dairy farm south of Alcester operated by his parents, Curt and Carla Winquist, and previously by his grandparents.

Kari grew up in Lake Benton, Minn., where her parents, John and Deb Delaney, raised purebred Herefords. “We showed Herefords all over. I pretty much had a halter in my hand from the time I could walk,” she said. Craig’s mom Carla

said, “The first time we met Kari, she was cleaning out a livestock trailer, so we knew she was a was a keeper.”

The journey from Alcester and Lake Benton to their farm today west of Canton has taken a roundabout road.

Craig said, “When I was 11 years old, Dad took me to the bank and he co-signed a loan for a cow named Anne Marie. Anne Marie led to a pretty good-sized herd. By the time I was a senior, there was 13 of them and Dad was helping me get some land to rent. I put some corn and soybeans in, 20 or 30 acres here or there.” Time spent as a state officer in FFA and classes at South Dakota State University

pulled him away from the family farm for a while. He also worked a couple of summers for the National FFA Organization in Washington, D.C. He majored in agricultural education at SDSU. “I knew I wanted to be an agriculture teacher since I was a junior in high school. I love the opportunity to expose students to different career paths involved in agriculture. There are only four things we need to survive as humans: Food, water, air and shelter.

Agriculture is part of all four of those and all four have fantastic career opportunities.

“I also appreciate the opportunity to help grow future leaders. The FFA is a fantastic organization that offers a ton of opportunities to young people to develop and hone their leadership skills,” he said.

His first teaching job was at Akron-Westfield High School which is just a few miles south and across the border from where his family farmed in Union County. “I was going to teach ag and farm. But, fast forward to 2003, I was teaching an ag business class to a group of seniors and I was telling them they could do anything in the world they wanted to do. Something was tapping me on the shoulder saying, ‘Why don’t you chase your music dream?’”

During college, he had discovered a passion for writing songs.

He moved to Nashville, Tenn. Craig said, “God gives us all talents and we'd better be smart enough to use them. One of my talents is writing songs. I’ve written over 375 original songs with some of the nation's top songwriters. I’ve had nearly 40 songs recorded and released either on albums or digitally by artists from literally all over the world.”

“Daisy Dukes” was one of his biggest songs. He co-wrote it with Trent Jeffcoat and Rory Feek (of the Joey+Rory duo who had a show on RFDTV). “Writing music has been a great creative outlet for me over the years. Just like farming, the income isn’t enough to put my kids through college, but it sure has been fun!” No doubt part of the fun was his karaoke singing at a party in Sioux Falls which caught the attention of his future wife, Kari.

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Beginning in late winter, Kari said the boys get up at 2 a.m. to check the heifers and ewes. Craig said, “Each year that goes by, we can see the progress the boys are making.

A couple weeks ago, there was a time when one of the mommas had some babies. The boys never woke us up when they went out at 2 a.m.

Here the next morning, they had the babies and momma in a pen with a pail of water and a couple slabs of hay in there. They were proud of that – and you know what a father and a mother think – you know, that’s what we’re shooting for.”

Kari added that their operation is a team effort. “There’s a lot of coming and going with Craig’s job and FFA, and the motel we own, and I'm a county employee, plus baseball, basketball, trapshooting and tae kwon do.”

Craig and Kari Winquist on their farm west of Canton.

Chadron State (NE) where she graduated with bachelor degrees in criminal justice and sociology, minoring in psychology. Then she completed a master’s degree in criminal justice. She joined Craig in Nashville about a year after he moved down there.

At the same time he was pursuing songwriting, Craig was the first ag education teacher at a new urban high school in the Nashville area. “Instead of teaching a lot of production crops, I was teaching classes in greenhouse, landscape management, equine science, agriscience and ag mechanics. A lot of the kids had a unique appreciation for agriculture. They just loved to learn about it. It was like a whole new world that they discovered.

We went from 36 kids in the ag program to 240 nine years later.”

But the couple missed family and life in the upper Midwest.

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up with the job and we bought 40 acres over here. The dream has always been to get back to production agriculture. But when we came back in 2011, land values were through the roof,” he said.

Kari also raises bees and harvests the honey. While the production amount isn’t a lot, she sells it at Gateway Motel in Canton and also to repeat customers who are looking for it each year.

Even with their limited acreage, they’ve built a diversified operation designed to teach agriculture’s life lessons to their sons, Corbin, 14, Conley, 11, and Kamden, 9. They have a small cow-calf herd, sheep, chickens and soybeans.

One of the family’s biggest efforts is raising aronia berries. In 2014, they planted 1,900 aronia plants after becoming intrigued by the health properties of aronia, sometimes called chokeberries.

Craig said, “Kari and I own the livestock and the boys do the work.

Every year, we sit down and figure out the cost of feed and everything and they work to pay off the livestock. Conley has his paid for.”

Kamden and Conley bought bucket calves four years ago. Nine-yearold Kamden made sure to mention their favorite ewe, named Crooked Neck. “The people from the stockyards said Crooked Neck was worthless. But every year she gives us twins or triplets.” Craig said the success of Crooked Neck is a good lesson in not letting what others say keep you down.

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Despite being a ewe no one wanted because of her deformity, “Crooked Neck” regularly delivers twins or triplets despite having a twisted head and neck.

Two years ago, Winquists did a pick-your-own event, where they showcased products made with honey and/or aronia berries. They combined the event with live music, inviting some of Craig’s songwriting friends. The pandemic prevented them from holding the event in 2020, but they hope to repeat it this year.

In addition to teaching farming’s lessons of responsibility and hard work, Craig said, “We strive to instill Christian values in our children. We are sinners just like everyone else, but we hope to someday find salvation and hope to instill those values in our children. Every time you see a sunrise and sunset, every time the trees bud, every time a calf or lamb is born, you see God at work.”

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DIRECTIONS: 1. Place lettuce evenly on bottom of medium bowl (about 3 qt). Top with layers of carrot, tomato, cucumber, onion and turkey.

2. Whisk oil, lemon juice, oregano, salt and pepper in small bowl. Drizzle over top of salad. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese evenly over top.

3. Cut eggs into quarters. Place on top of salad.

4. To serve salad, scoop down to bottom of bowl to reach all the layers.

NOTES: Instead of turkey, use chicken, ham or bacon.

Or substitute additional vegetables such as celery, sweet pepper, mushrooms or zucchini. Try shredded or cubed Cheddar, Havarti, Swiss or Monterey Jack cheese in place of Parmesan. Substitute 1/3 cup (75 mL) of your favorite dressing for the oil and lemon juice mixture.

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