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Growin’ in the Wind Business comes naturally at Windsweep Farms, where the family has followed in the farm founder’s self-sustaining footsteps.

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A legacy transplanted Dixon Floral Co. has found a new home, and its new owner is excited about keeping the 100-plus-year business growing.

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enerations of Sheaffers have walked the green, rolling hills and deep hollows of Windsweep Farm.

They’ve lived off the milkfat of the land with their cattle. Specialty meats have been their livestock in trade. They’ve turned produce into profit.

And they’ve done it naturally.

The family farm located between Dixon and Sterling produces and sells specialty meats and other products, including milk-fed pork and chicken, lamb, eggs, seasonal produce, and

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The farm’s animals are raised in a self-sustaining environment. Their diet is vegetarian and their feed is homegrown and harvested onsite, supplemented only by the vitamins, minerals, and protein they need for a balanced diet. You’d be hard-pressed to find a hormone on the farm, and the only time antibiotics are used is when one of the animals is recovering from illness or injury. The livestock is raised humanely in a pasture.

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Leonard Sheaffer, 67, and his daughter, Renee Sheaffer-Koster, 31, work together on marketing Windsweep Farm.

The fourth-generation family farm started with dairy cattle. Leonard’s grandfather, John Sheaffer, moved from Pennsylvania to the Sauk Valley in the early 1900s.

Leonard’s father, Harold, started milking in 1946, and Leonard joined him in 1972.

Renee has also followed in her father’s footsteps. She started milking Holstein cattle when she was 14, and later moved into brown Swiss. Leonard sold his herd in the 1990s, and Renee moved into specialty products, partnering with her father.

The family now has about 100 head of brown Swiss and other cattle, including calves.

“I have more cows than I need,” Renee said as one of the cows ambled toward her and her children – Colin Koster, 3, Landon Koster, 2, and Evelyn Koster, 3 months.

When Renee was in college, she saw a documentary on milk-fed chicken, which inspired her to try the same idea with Berkshire hogs; she started feeding them extra milk from the farm and started selling the meat about 15 years ago.

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The family behind the family farm: Renee Koster (left, holding Evelyn Koster), Colin Koster, Leonard Sheaffer and Landon Koster.

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Farming runs in the family at Windsweep Farm, just ask 3-year-old Colin Koster, who’s already lending a hand. With future generations already putting down roots on the family farm, it looks like Windsweep will keep on growing for years to come.

“We don’t do butchering. We have our meat done at the Carroll County Locker in Lanark. I do have some pork done at Lena because people want nitrate-free pork,” Renee said.

Some of the extra milk is left unpasteurized for customers with dairy allergies who can drink unpasteurized milk, she said.

Brown Swiss cattle are easy to keep, and produce milk high in butter fat and protein. Renee said the cream can be skimmed off of the milk.

“My boys like to make butter with it,” she said.

Windsweep products can be bought at the farm or online. Renee said she’s sold items to That Place on Palmyra, and has customers in the Quad Cities and Rockford.

“We deliver twice a year to Grayslake. One person from California stopped and bought milk. I also sell at the Dixon Summer Farmers Market.

People will buy quarters or halves.

They can leave bottles of milk in the fridge and we’ll fill it up, or make appointments,” Renee said.

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Leonard’s wife, Anne, 68, and their other daughter, Emily Sheaffer, 36, also help with the business.

“Renee was back out here a month after having Evelyn. It’s like it’s a passion,” Emily said.

Leonard also has another passion, one that he’s turned into a side business. With money from selling cattle, he started buying compact tractors and parts from throughout the U.S. and overseas.

“Some people in the South can buy a piece of ground for $1,000 and have a small tractor. I got into the parts end of it. I can find parts nobody else can,” Leonard said.

Leonard’s traveled as far as New York and Norway to hunt down parts, and has built up business relationships with after-market dealers and salvage yards. The most he sold in one month was $18,000.

“I’ve had parts made overseas. I had a guy in Hawaii who wanted to get a part, and I found it in Australia. There was one part missing from a tractor in Manchuria that I found in South Africa,” Leonard said.

As for the farm’s future, it looks like it’s in good hands. Renee said Colin likes to pitch in with a pitchfork, and Landon even lends a little hand feeding the cattle.

With future generations already putting down roots on the family farm, it looks like Windsweep Farm will keep on growing for years to come. s

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Dixon Floral Co. has found a new home, and its new owner is excited about the opportunity to keep the 100-plus-year business growing STORY GAVIN T. JENSEN | PHOTOS ALEX PASCHAL FOR DIXON LIVING

New Dixon Floral Co. owner Melissa Gallentine (left) and designer Stacy Gallentine invite you to check out the new store 112 S. Peoria Ave.

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or Melissa Gallentine, running a flower business isn’t a far cry from running a pizzeria.

Both businesses specialize in custom orders – whether it’s picking buds for a bouquet or toppings on a pizza – and both peddle a product that can be picked up or delivered.

And where would the former be without flour, or the latter without flowers?

But whether it’s pizza or petals, one thing is exactly the same: Quality is what keeps people coming back.

So when the owners of the century-plus-old flower shop asked Gallentine about taking over Dixon Floral Co., it didn’t take her long to make up her mind.

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“Shelly Long, the previous owner, asked me one day in August if I would like to run the business,” Gallentine said. “I saw the opportunity ahead of me and said yes.”

And it didn’t hurt that she had a spot to move the shop to, at 112 S. Peoria Ave., in a space she and her husband, Jim, owned next to the family business, Mama Cimono’s.

She opened her new shop under the old name Oct. 1.

The business had been located at 116 E. First St., but former owners Shelly and Dan Long, who owned the shop since 2016, wanted to sell the business in the brick building at the corner of East First Street and South Ottawa Avenue to make more room for another business in the building, Revive Boutique.

Their hope was that Dixon MORE INFORMATION Floral wouldn’t close, and that Dixon Floral, 112 S. Peoria Ave., is someone would buy the business open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday that’s been a part of Dixon since through Friday. Call 815-288-2246 or Find Dixon Floral Co. on Facebook.

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“It’s exciting, and I’m honored that we are continuing the Dixon Floral name,” she said.

Remodeling is still underway, so decor is a work in progress. Gallentine, 41, and longtime Dixon Floral employee Stacy Blackbourn, 47, have been hard at work preparing the spot for the flower shop.

“We really have the option to do whatever we want with this space,” Blackbourn said.

The largest obstacle was installing the freezer to store the bulk of the

Everything’s coming up roses at Dixon Floral Co., which offers flowers for any occassion.

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“Everything in here is new, from the counter to the display stands and the makeshift room for the freezer,” Gallentine said. “Although it’s smaller than the old place, it’s surprising and exciting to see how much we can fit.”

Gallentine is prioritizing service over self.

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These days, they do a whole lot more. They’re a tool in a technical toolbox that helps people manage their health care.

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Come March 19, though, the two portals will merge into one log-in, and hospital services will be added to the app, providing all of a patient’s electronic records all in one spot.

“It is a great way for patients to manage their health, their children’s health, or loved one’s health when needed,” Jessica Nance, KSB’s quality specialist, said in a news release.

“Our goal is to increase patient access to their providers via this great communication tool and to allow patients to feel more in control of their health with 24/7 access to their health record.”

Go to ksbhospital.com to sign up or learn more.

Margaret Shaw is KSB’s patient portal specialist; she can troubleshoot or answer questions at 815 285-5424.

CGH Medical Center and KSB Hospital offer online portals that allow patients to access a host of health care services.

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A CGH hospital portal also is available on the website, but for now, only clinic services can be accessed via the app.

Those who already have a CGH My Access account simply need to download the CGH Clinics app from either the Apple App or Google Play store and log in their using existing log in and password.

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Hydrate owner and stylist Janice Swegle gives a client a facial. “I almost missed my life’s calling. It was a scary jump, but I haven’t looked back since,” Swegle said of the leap of faith she took to open her business.

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f there’s one thing the trio of stylists at Hydrate Salon and Spa agree on, it’s that they prefer to have a comb and clipper in hand rather than a keyboard under their fingertips.

After years climbing the corporate ladder, owner Janice Swegle, 29, grew tired of living in Chicago, working 80 hours a week and missing her family back in Dixon.

So she took a leap of faith, quit her job at in the Willis Tower and came home to pursue her dream of opening a spa.

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“I remember coming home from a business trip and calling my mom because I was exhausted from the built-up stress,” Swegle said. “I had no free time and I started to question what I was doing with my life.”

For 6 months, she saved every last penny she could, then quit her job and moved back home.

That was just over 2 years ago. Since then, she went back to school to learn the ins-and-outs of beauty, and opened Hydrate in July.

“I almost missed my life’s calling. It was a scary jump, but I haven’t looked back since,” Swegle said.

The salon’s clean lines and minimalist look – black accents, wood details, and plants, pulled together by crisp, white walls – are Swegle’s aesthetic, but her parents, Mark and Terri Swegle, 57 and 56, have helped with everything from the lawn care to installing the sign outside the front door.

“Probably the biggest influence was my older sister, Jill (Swegle) Hayes.

She wanted to open a spa and salon too, but life took her in another direction.

“We tossed around names for weeks, and one day we were talking about the vision for the salon and said we wanted people to come here and feel rehydrated, and that was it,” Swegle said.

With her desired look and vibe achieved, Swegle’s next step was to find stylists. She chose Bethany Wright, 29, and Kaila Langley 27, for their expertise, and for their shared stories.

Wright is a certified Redken hair colorist who prides herself on continuing her education and understanding the science behind coloring and cutting techniques.

The Dixon native didn’t start out as a stylist, though: Seven years ago, Wright was an EMT dispatcher in Naperville, but also wasn’t happy

Kaila Langley said she always dreamed of being a hair stylist and loves the positive impact she can have on people, “I have the power to make someone’s day, and make them feel and look beautiful.”

about the path she was on.

“I was stuck in life so, I called my pastor. We prayed to see what the next step in life was for me, and God told me to school to study hair,” Wright said.

“I’m much happier now, I have a better work-life balance and can spend time with my husband, Nathan Wright, and daughter, Gianna [who’s 3].”

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grew up in the salon where my mom worked in Colorado, but I just went to college and It’s the opportunity to have a positive influworked at a Wells Fargo.” ence on people day-in and day-out that she Then she and her husband, Travis Langley, likes best.

“This is a safe environment to love on people 32, moved back to his hometown. “I had the choice to and open up. go back to a We’re here bank job or to listen and do what I was help you look passionate and feel betabout,” she ter. Faith is said. a huge part The gamble of my life, paid off, and I love the and Langley opportunity found her to help build equilibrium someone up at Hydrate, every day,” enjoying Wright said. time with her When it husband and comes to hair, her preference Stylist Bethany Wright colors Sara Wall’s hair at Hydrate Salon Paisley, their is to create and Spa. The Dixon native says “hair designing is my creative 4-year-old daughter. an effortlessly strength. I’ll do what’s best for each person’s hair lifestyle.”

She loves lived-in style. positive impact she can have on people, “I “Hair designing is my creative strength, and I’ll do what’s best for each person’s hair lifehave the power to make someone’s day, and style,” Wright said. make them feel and look beautiful.

It’s nearly the same story for Langley, who “I really pride myself on being able to look at a always dreamed of being a hair stylist – “I picture on Pinterest and achieving that look.” s Continued from page 21

Hydrate owner Janice Swegle (center) handpicked her stylists, Bethany Wright (left) and Kaila Langley for their for their expertise, and for their shared stories.

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The shop is chock full of odds and ends looking for a new beginning in someone else’s home.

From charming tchotchkes to eccentric eclectics – think brass umbrella holder shaped like a cowboy boot – the store lives up to its name; it’s full of gifts and antiques.

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The mother-and-daughter owners of Waterfront Gifts and Antiques started the business as a gift shop in 2005, but added antiques and eventually moved the shop to 212 W. First St. But an ever-increasing inventory and customers’ growing appetite for antiques sent the pair looking for bigger digs, and they didn’t have to go far to find them. They moved across the street, to the former Super Dollar Store.

Their store used to be filled mostly with treasures from their own hunts – estate sales, antique picking, auctions, and private sales – but now they’ve made room for others looking for a place to peddle their antiques and attic finds.

Witzleb and Morgan tried out the mall idea on a smaller scale at their previous location, renting extra space to dealers. It went over so well that they decided to move on to bigger and better things.

“We only had a few dealers at our last location, but we were running out of space,” Morgan said.

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Waterfront Gifts and Antiques owners Chris Morgan and mom Virginia Witzleb recently moved the store across the street in downtown Dixon, to 207 W. First St., in the former Super Dollar Store.

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They mark out spaces in their shop that people MORE INFO Waterfront can rent, some as big as 100 square feet, or as Antiques and small as a dinner table, with monthly prices Gifts 207 W. First St., ranging from $25 to $125, but spaces aren’t Dixon restricted to a certain size.

815-288-4500 “We’ll work with anyone to give them as Hours: 10 a.m. much or as little space as possible. Right now to 5 p.m. Monday through Friour largest space is 10 feet by 10 feet, just day; 10 a.m. to because they needed the space,” Witzleb said.

4 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday Beyond turning their passion into profit, the and Monday pair also hopes to inspire the next generation of Online: Find collectors and antique hunters.

Waterfront Gifts and Antiques on “We just really like old stuff,” Morgan said, Facebook “the younger generations tend to not hold onto RIGHT: Have things as long as people used to. Now it’s all disan eye for the posable and minimalist,” she said. eclectic? You’ll But as long as this pair of pickers has anyfind it at Wathing to say about it, there’ll be a demand for terfront Gifts merchandise that stands the test of time, and and Antiques, such as this Witzleb and Morgan will be there to meet that – um, well, demand, making sure antiques are always front whatever it is. and center. s

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