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BYRON - At the heart of Bella Vista Farm lies two women who love their horses and the sport of dressage: Jennifer Ebling and Beth Jones. “Each horse teaches me something every day,” Ebling said. “I can’t help but stay super humble because as soon as I have one thing figured out, the horse reminds me they have a different way they can do it.” Ebling had returned to her hometown of Rochester in late 2003 and started a dressage training and teaching business. Those early years often consisted of traveling to many barns each day to teach dressage to people on any type of horse and in any saddle. She quickly built a strong and dedicated client base as there was no barn dedicated to training dressage at the time. “I wanted everyone
to know that dressage was for every rider and every horse,” Ebling said. Jones, however, was just getting back into horse riding and dressage in her 30s after one of her coworkers approached her and asked if she would exercise her horse. “I started riding at the age of 12 years old and competed in games,” said Jones of her riding experience. “I had given up horses when I went to college because they were expensive. But when I started exercising my coworker’s horse, I decided I just had to get back into it.” Jones knew she could not compete in rodeos anymore and met a trainer in Madison, Wisconsin, who taught dressage. “I really liked it because it fit my process of developing things and creating a relation-
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(above) Jennifer Ebling gives pointers to assistant barn manager and dressage competitor, Sam Perrotti (left), and her daughter, Taylor Hewitt on July 1. Ebling is the head trainer of the farm. (right) Taylor Hewitt holds her horse Jack on July 1. Hewitt, 13, just started competing in dressage.
ship with the horse and that was it; I wanted to do dressage,” Jones said. Jones moved to Rochester in 2004 and shortly after met Ebling. They partnered in 2011 to create Bella Vista Farm. “I very quickly realized there was
horse, and it should look like the horse is doing all kinds of movements with the rider barely moving.” At Bella Vista Farm, they train riders for both competition and pleasure riding. “I train riders from age 7 all the way up to their 70s,” Ebling said. “It’s a lifelong journey and a very unique aspect of the sport because we can enjoy it for many years.” Jones agreed. “It’s also one of the few sports that allow men and women to compete equally,” she said. Jones and Ebling have both competed in shows and take some of their boarders to compete in shows in the Midwest put on by the United States Dressage Federation, The owners of Bella Vista farm stand in their 23-horse stall among others. a need for another barn strictly focused on dressage,” Jones said. Ebling agreed. “My goal was to bring dressage to southeast Minnesota and try to grow that in an area where it was way more common to see a horse in western saddle or doing hunt seat,” she said. The pair worked together and co-leased a barn for four years and ran it together while searching for their own farm. In 2011, they found and bought their destination, a 43-acre farm outside of Bryon in Olmsted County. “We leased it out for a few years until we got the barn design done,” Jones said. In 2014, they took
down the old buildings and poured the footings, and in 2015, after the ground thawed, they built a hay barn, a stall barn complete with 23 stalls, an indoor training arena and an outdoor training arena. The arenas have various letters along the ground which Ebling said help the riders perform movements around the arena. Come 2015, the farm opened its doors and has been in business ever since. Dressage is a form of horse riding used in exhibition and competition but is also an art form. It originated in the 17th century. “It is one of our few Olympic sports in horse riding,” Ebling said. “Many people talk about dressage as a rider dancing with their
barn Dan (from left) and Jennifer Ebling, Beth Jones and Chris Christiansen. Beth Jones and Jennifer Ebling bought the farm in 2011.
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Dressage from front “Overall, my students have done really well, and I think a lot of that comes down to hard work and dedication,” Ebling said. “We also don’t only take your typical dressage horses; we also take your non-traditional dressage horses.” Jones agreed. “The Quarter Horses, Morgans, Paints, grade horses can compete and get blues too,” she said. Ebling serves as the head trainer and gives each rider or horse a private 45-minute lesson and training session. She has a flexible training program which meets what the horses’ and riders’ needs are at the time. During each lesson, Ebling works on skills with both the rider and horse and makes sure the horses are in a relaxed, calm state. “Dressage is probably one of the more complicated sports to teach and train which is why I love it,” Ebling said. “I love a challenge and things that are complex and require a great deal of patience and time.” Jones and Ebling also make it a point to keep the drama outside of the barn. “This is a no drama barn,” Ebling said. “We enjoy our time here, want to enjoy all the people and want them to enjoy their time with their horses. So, we’ve been able to create
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(above) Jennifer Ebling stands with dressage competitors Taylor Hewitt (left), Sam Perrotti and their horses. After each lesson, Ebling gives each horse a good boy/girl pat. (below right) Bella Vista Farm is one of the first of its kind to board horses and teach dressage. The farm was established in 2015.
an environment which nourishes that peacefulness. I have so many people come up to me and say, ‘Oh Bella Vista is so peaceful, so relaxing and so calm.’” Ebling said her parents believe the love of horses was born into her as she grew up in the town of Rochester without any farming or horse background. “From as young as I can remember, horses were all I wanted,” Ebling said. Ebling was halfway through college when she realized she wanted to teach and train horses and later attended Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in animal science with a specialization in equine science and business.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022 | Country Acres South • Page 3 Dressage from page 2 ber of different busi“It was my passion,” Ebling said. “I had been riding and taking lessons since I was 5 years old and had always been interested in dressage but never had the opportunity to participate in the sport until I moved to Pennsylvania.” While there, Ebling trained with some of the top dressage trainers. “It was just a phenomenal experience,” Ebling said. She then met trainer Helen Erickson, who let Ebling ride her first internationally trained dressage horse, Animation. “She put me on him and decided to bring him out of retirement when she saw how well I got along with him,” Ebling said. Erickson sponsored Ebling as a college student and gave her opportunities she never would have had otherwise. One show she competed at was Dressage at Devon in Devon, Pennsylvania, which is one of the largest dressage shows in Pennsylvania. “My whole college class came out to watch because they had never had a student compete at that show before,” Ebling said. “It was such a rush and so exciting. I saw Olympic dressage riders and some of the highest-level riders in the country and was able to compete alongside them.” Ebling stayed in Pennsylvania after college for many years, managing and training at a Hanoverian farm. She continued to compete in dressage. While competing, she received her United States Dressage Federation bronze and silver medals, and now her daughter, Taylor Hewitt, 13, has started competing in the sport. “She was here at 6:30 this morning feeding horses just so she could ride,” Ebling said. Jones, however, grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin doing everything from farming, taking care of animals and baling hay. She then managed a num-
nesses before eventually coming back to horses. Now, she manages the farm’s finances. “This farm is no different than most farms; I make the numbers work,” Jones said. “Every part of this business has one of our pairs of eyes on it all the time.” Her husband, Chris Christiansen, agreed. “The amount of attention that is given to each horse really amazes me,” he said. “Every horse is monitored.” Christiansen grew up spending summers on his uncle’s and grandfather’s farm in southeast South Dakota. “I knew nothing about horses before I met Beth,” Christiansen said. “I had been on adult pony rides but that was about it.” He was working as an educator for the University of Minnesota in Rochester at the time he met Jones. Since marrying Jones, Christiansen said his time spent on the farm has been a tremendous learning experience. “These ladies know so much about horses and are such great mentors,” he said. “I just have a tremendous amount of respect for them.” On the other hand, Ebling’s husband, Dan, handles all of the mechanics and maintenance for the farm. “I do the fencing repairs, but other than that, he does everything else,” Ebling said of Dan. “He can fix and operate anything.” Ebling and her husband also work together to harvest the 10 acres of hay and raise their family on the farm. “It’s a great experience for the kids,” she said. In addition to the family, Ebling and Jones have seven part-time employees who help with the horses’ care. “We have a great staff,
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The Hewitt and Ebling family (from left): Evalyn Ebling, Taylor Hewitt, Gracelyn Ebling, Jennifer and Dan Ebling, Ryan Hewitt and Wiley Ebling. Jennifer Ebling’s favorite memory has been getting married on the farm.
and we’d PHOTO BY KATE be lost withRECHTZIGEL out them,” Ebling said. The owners of “It’s quite a team effort, Bella Vista farm and I feel so blessed that pose with their horse, Jack, we have the partnership from left: Chris and the team that we do.” Since its opening, Bel- Christiansen, Beth Jones, la Vista Farm has been well Jennifer and received in the community Dan Ebling on despite being one of the July 1. Beth few dressage facilities in Jones and southeastern Minnesota. Jennifer Ebling “Moving out here, esbought the pecially as a horse farm, I farmsite in 2011. always wondered how we would be received,” Jones said. “But it’s been very wonderful. Everybody is very welcoming and wants to help us succeed.” Among the successes, they have also faced a number of challenges over The Certified Appraisal Will Contain: the years from illnesses and Machinery | Ag. Const. | Livestock | Domestic Exotic injuries to natural disasters A. 8 1/2x11 booklet of all equipment/subject C. Individual appraisal of each item. and other unexpected chalproperty. D. Unbiased, independent, non collutive. B. Photo of each appraised item, catalogued to E. Defendable in court - if necessary. lenges. appraisal. F. Data is legal, irrefutable documentation of value. “If one of us handled 1. Divorce 4. Refinance 7. Tax Evaluation 10. Acts of nature: all of this, we couldn’t do 2. Estate 5. Asset Recovery 8. Bankruptcy Drought - Flood it,” Ebling said. “But we 3. Insurance 6. Liquidation 9. Mediation Blizzard - Tornado have all of us, each with our unique skillset which allows us to have each other’s backs, think through www.drsquarefoot.com | 651-246-4146 | Rochester & Zumbrota things, encourage one another and be there for each Real Estate Auctions. Certified Appraisals. | Auctioneer #25-33 | Certified Appraiser #08404 other.” Ebling encourages anyone to learn the basics Visit us at Wisconsin Technology Days of dressage riding. July 12-14, 2022, Booth 971 “It’s good for every discipline, helps you beBRUSH MOWERS 2 come a better rider and Coming Soon! helps the horses understand things better,” she said. BALE SPEAR BALE SQUEEZER LAND LEVELER “No matter what kind of horse or saddle you have, just experience it and give it a try.” Jones agreed. “You gain so much Bale extensions sions experience working with also available able horses that is applicable in 3 PT. GOOSNECK all other aspects of your HYDRAULIC PALLET FORK STUMP BUCKET TOW TOWBA TO TOWBAR life,” she said. “You have a constant day-to-day relationship with the horse and are constantly asking each other, compromising, working out deals, developing and honing in on your most instinctive reads FREE Visit our website at www.messerrepair.com to see all of of behavior that is very apSHIPPING! our attachments or call us at 320-352-3477 PHOTO BY KATE RECHTZIGEL plicable to any place else; Jennifer Ebling explains the dressage saddle on July 1. whether it is family, board Located 1.5 miles west of Sauk Centre at 42739 County Road 184 The saddle allows riders to have close contact with the room or customer dynamhorse so they can give precise instructions using finely LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! 320.352.3477 320.352.3477 ics.” tuned movements of the riders’ body, seat and legs.
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Paul and Karen Schmidt run a diverse vegetable enterprise in Preston. Behind them is their garlic field that has 14 different varieties.
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“Whatever we do on our farm, we do it PRESTON – The mushrooms to fiber arts because we feel it’s the Schmidt Farm offers crafted from the wool right thing to do,” said everything from garlic, of llamas, sheep and al- Karen Schmidt. asparagus and shiitake paca. For the Schmidts, that means certifying the farm as organic and FARM ESTATE actively welcoming people to the farm to learn. Some come in an official capacity to learn SELLERS: John & Jodi Attig the behind the scenes on how to grow organ4870 Wheelerwood Rd., ic foods while other Northwood IA 50459 people, with an interest in learning more Saturday, July 30th at 10:00 am simply about farm life, rent the restored farm house on LIVE & ONLINE the property as a vacation experience for a For Further info, Call Kris Rugland 641-390-0220 few days. *Iowa Sales Tax on Applicable Items*
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K a ren and her husband, Paul, own Schmidt Farm near Preston. “It’s based in our mission of the farm, teaching other people what we do and how we do it and an appreciation for how food is produced and animals are
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In addition to the production farming they do on site, they also have horses, donkeys, goats, rabbits and chickens on the farm. Paul grew up on the land, it’s been in his family for 120 years. His father milked cows at the farm, had laying hens and hogs. Paul and Karen themselves ran 850 acres and a 6,000head custom-finishing hog operation on the property from 1997 un-
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til 2021. In 1999, the couple began transitioning the land to organic and became certified with their first 250 acres in 2001. Then, 15 years ago, Paul started dabbling in garlic. It began as a hobby when he planted 350 bulbs. All 350 bulbs grew and he harvested the crop in full. “As a farmer that is a statistical anomaly, a statistical improbability,” he said. The success he had achieved with the garlic prompted him to learn about the varieties. He now offers 14 different varieties and plants 30,000 bulbs on 1 acre. They have Inchelium Red, Chet’s Italian Red, Krasnodar White, Music, Armenian, Georgian Crystal, Georgian Fire, German Extra Hardy, Zemo, Estonian Red, Siberian, Belarus, Russian Giant and Krasnodar Red.
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Schmidts from page 4 “We decided a vegetable enterprise would replace some off-farm income,” Paul said. Today, the Schmidts sell the garlic through retail and wholesale methods. Their asparagus is available by retail and direct sales to about six restaurants. “We looked into asparagus for its resiliency,” Paul said. “It can freeze off and come back, get hailed on and come back. It’s a high-value crop.” The couple has about 10,000 asparagus plants on an acre of land. For years, their son, Vaughan, was in charge of the asparagus operation, saving the money he earned to pay his way through college. Their son, Devan, was also very active on the farm growing up helping with a variety of chores, until moving to Iowa. The asparagus and garlic, hedge against each other financially, Paul said. “On a larger scale these things can provide a decent living instead of just being part of a vegetable garden in the summer,” he said. “The fact that we can grow the best garlic in the world here in Minnesota is a little-known fact. There’s hardly any commercially-grown asparagus here in Minnesota; we don’t want people to forget that.” Growing local and providing local is important to the Schmidts. They are one of the 15 largest garlic growers in the state featured at the annual Minnesota Garlic Festival in Hutchinson. “It’s an event of similarly-minded people who understand the necessity and the value of growing product and growing quality produce,” he said. “Product we don’t need to put food miles under, we don’t need to ship it in from China or South America.” The Schmidts try to explain their focus on organics when they get the opportunity. They have found de-
mand for their product is greater in metropolitan areas as opposed to rural communities. “To lessen our footprint on the earth chemically (is important),” Paul said. Near the Schmidt’s house, deep in the mature windbreak of hardwood trees is a shaded area. The cooler spot has been perfect for growing shiitake mushrooms on logs. It is a practice they learned about at an organic farming conference in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. “We have the right wood, the right shade we needed and we have a water source, it seemed like a no-brainer,” Karen said. They buy bags of sawdust inoculated with mushroom spawn/ spores. Mushrooms are a perennial crop and they grow until the log is used up. They drill holes in the log and place plugs of sawdust inside, Paul said. The mushroom roots grow through the log and digest the carbohydrates out of the log, and once they have enough sugar, the mushrooms fruit. Karen said keeping a moisture balance is important. The couple gets a crop of mushrooms each spring after the snow melts and then again in August. In August, they soak the logs in cattle tanks for
24 hours. This shocks the logs and forces the plant to send out more mushrooms as a way of reproducing. The logs fruit three days later. Karen heads up the fiber arts division of the farm. Through the years the couple has repurposed all the buildings on the farm and now one, that used to serve as a home to the family’s laying hens upstairs and hogs downstairs, is now Karen’s Woolery. Karen cleaned out all the pens and if she has a sheep lambing, there is a special area just for them. She also has rabbits and freerange laying hens. They studied what would be best for the land and decided on sheep. They researched breeds and Karen fell PHOTOS SUBMITTED in love with Icelan- The farmhouse on the Schmidt Farm is available for vacation rentals and to give guests dic sheep. She has 28 a real on-farm experience. and shears them herself, twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. The sheep rotationally graze with no permanent fencing; she moves the electric fence once a week to give them fresh grazing grounds. “I love the breed, I love telling people about them,” she said. “They’re very unique and they have natural characteristics bred out of most Americanized sheep.” Each has their own personality and their own name, such as Rockstar, Ingmar and Penny.
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Page 6 • Country Acres South | Saturday, July 16, 2022 Schmidts from page 5 The guardians of the sheep are the llamas – they are naturally K-9-aggressive and protect the flock from coyotes, naturally herding them into the barn when they sense a predator. “It’s all natural,” Karen said. “It’s nothing I’ve trained them to do.” The couple took in four alpacas last winter as a rescue situation and Karen has added them to her fiber flock. She spins the fiber in the winter and participates in the Bluff Country Studio Art Tour and also sells her needle felting at the local farmer’s markets in Rochester and at the Lanesboro Art Gallery. In August, the couple hosts a Music on the Porch event where Paul plays guitar and they open the farm for an open house and perusing of the arts. Opening the farm to the public is part of the Schmidts’ mission. Even when they worked with hogs they opened the farm so people could see the ins and outs of the op-
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Paul and Karen Schmidt grow 14 different varieties of garlic on their farm near Preston. They also grow asparagus, mushrooms and raise icelandic sheep.
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Karen Schmidt creates fiber arts out of the fiber she spins on her farm. The fiber comes from Icelandic sheep, alpacas and llamas.
a list when they arrive, they’re going on different tours of the area, tube the river, bike and three-quarters of the time they never leave the farm,” she said. Something about the Schmidt’s way of life continues to interest farm visitors. Each connection the couple makes with new-comers is reassurance that they are doing good.
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Younger members (from left): Huck, Carter and Lily take their turn at waterskiing during a practice July 11. This is Lily’s first year on the team.
MAZEPPA - In 1922, a man named Ralph Samuelson made several attempts to get on the water behind different fishing boats and even an airplane on Lake Pepin in Lake City. “He finally tried a pair of boards which he used as skis and a clothesline which was used as a tow rope when he skimmed across the water for the first time,” Madilyn Schmitz said. Samuelson is noted as the first water-skier, ski racer, slalom skier and first organizer of a water-ski show. This year marks 100 years of water skiing in Minnesota. Madilyn is an active skiing member, coach and on the board of directors for the SkiDox Water Ski Team which began in the mid-1950s, roughly 30 years
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Hope Peterson puts her skis away after a practice on July 11. The team practices two or three times a week, depending on when they have shows.
after Samuelson invented water skiing. Members are from Rochester and its surrounding cities and range in age from 3 to 50 years old. “Thousands of spectators and fans have come from miles around, as well as other countries, to see the feats performed by our team and enjoy fun, interesting performances of grace, beauty, daring and skill,” Madilyn said. “The team is like many athletic organizations in that it tries to develop individuals, promote competition and teamwork, and create lasting friendships.” Carter Schmitz, 20, of Adams, agreed. “II like the sense of comradery it provides,” he said. “Sometimes we are even able to be out there skiing with 20 people at a time.”
Every other week beginning on Memorial Day through Labor Day, the team puts on a one hourlong show and performs 12 acts which include barefoot skiing, pyramids, ballet line, swivel skiing, doubles and trios, and more. “Usually this is a themed show that has a story from the beginning to the end, often like a play,” Madilyn said. “This year, the show does not have a theme.” Each act is unique and fun for members of the team. Carter, for example, enjoys the wakeboard act. “I get to do flips,” Carter said. “It’s my happy place.” His teammate, Kindra Walstad, 29, of Zumbrota, relishes in the ballet line performance. “I like the ballet line because it’s fun to be out there with all the girls and see the hard work and teamwork it takes to pull it off, off,” she said. The team practices two times a week when they have a show and
three times a week when they do not have a show scheduled. New skiers learn the fundamentals of water skiing such as how to put water skis on, how to roll ropes, basic body positioning, and water and boat awareness. More advanced members learn how to swivel ski, barefoot ski, go over jumps, perform flips and participate in line doubles. During line doubles, someone lifts another in the air with acrobatic positioning so they can climb pyramids or perform tricks, said Madilyn. First-year member, 10-year-old Lily O’Brien, is working her way through the various skills learned as a part of the team. “I started only learning deep water skiing and can now do a dock start and tricks,” O’Brien said. “I really like how I can do tricks such as the line doubles, but it’s it s weird because you are not the person skiing.”
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Team members (from left): Cole Nelson, Hope Peterson (top), Nora Schmitz, Hanna Hewitt (top), Nick Wall, Jackson Hewitt and Kennedy Rollie (top) perform a flying v maneuver during a practice July 11.
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The SkiDox Water Ski team makes a large pyramid (bases from left): Austin Walstad, Matt Lamphere, Nate Schrader, Thomas Mergen, Chris Roser, Matt Hoeft, Cole Nelson, Travis Schmitz, Carter Schmitz, Don Roberts, Brad Belcher, (2nd tier from left): Sierra Belcher, Macy Warnke, Carmen Mergen, Madi Schmitz, Sara Hoeft, Kaitlyn Larson, Nora Schmitz, (3rd tier from left): Rachel Trotman, Sydney Belcher, Hanna Hewitt, Samantha Sheridan and (4th tier): Sawyer Sheridan. This year marks 100 years of the waterskiing sport.
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SkiDox Waterski team members talk during a practice July 11. The team allows members to perform a wide variety of waterski maneuvers and connect with a large group of people.
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SkiDox from page 8 Water ski equipment includes different types of skis which are tailored for the types of skiing. “We have wakeboards, swivel skis, base skis, shoe skis, combo skis, jump skis and others,” Madilyn said. They also have many types of ropes depending on each act which will be performed. Most are around 75 feet in length and have a handle to hang on to. Braided handles are used when climbing pyramids, said Madilyn. For boats, the team uses an inboard MasterCraft and a triple rig Evinrude. The MasterCraft is used for high skilled acts such as barefoot ski, swivel, doubles, trios, jumps or wakeboarding. The Evinrude is used for larger acts such as pyramids, ballet lines or barefoot lines which put many skiers on the water at the same time. “The MasterCraft has a slower speed and a larger wake which makes the high skilled acts easier, and the Evinrude is more powerful and has a lot of speed,” Madilyn
said. Over the years, the team’s practice has changed from being at the Fisherman’s Inn in Oronoco to the Pondy Bar and Grill in Mazeppa. However, the team still practices on Lake Zumbro, and members gain a variety of skills. “A member can gain a good sense of teamwork, improve on their water-ski skills and gain performance and showmanship skills,” Madilyn said. Walstad agreed. “My dad was involved in water skiing so he got my brother and I involved in the team, and now my brother skis professionally all over the world,” she said. “It’s such a cool experience because we are able to ski as a family.” In addition to their shows, the team also takes part in the Midwest regional competition which rotates each year and includes teams from Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. The competition mirrors a show but is limited to a 20-minute setup time, 60-minute show and 10-minute tear down time. Teams are judged on difficulty, artistic ability
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The 2021 SkiDox Water Ski team (above) puts on a one hour-long show and performs 12 acts which include barefoot skiing, pyramids, ballet line, swivel skiing, doubles and trios, among others, every other week Memorial Day through Labor Day.
and showmanship, said Madilyn. Some notable accomplishments of the team include being the first water-ski club in the world to pull off a four-tier prefabricated pyramid and then nail it at the national tournament in 1995 and achieving sixth place in the national tournament in 1976. The ballet line has also won first in the region numerous times and has had a total of 26 people in
the line. Doubles acts have also been award-winning performances and have earned as high as first place at regionals. “The sport of show water skiing has grown exponentially over the years,” Madilyn said. “In the Midwest today, there are around 40 teams that do what we do.” Bigger boats have also been able to pull more skiers at one time and an advancement in rope and ski technology allows for
more difficult tricks. Despite the grander technology that allows the sport to progress, a team’s success largely depends on participation. “Our team specifically has gone through peaks and valleys of membership,” Madilyn said. “This greatly affects the size and scale of shows we are able to put on.” Yet, the members of this southeastern Minnesota ski team look forward to their season each year
and watching the sport grow in popularity. “It’s such a cool experience,” Walstad said. “I’d tell anyone who wants to learn how to water ski to jump right in and do it. We have members who have water skied for years and those that haven’t even tried, and they’ve all excelled.” O’Brien agreed. “I’d tell people to try it,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard, but if you keep trying, you get better at it.”
Members of the SkiDox Water Ski team form a ballet line. Riders are able to use a swivel ski to perform these balletlike movements.
LAND FOR SALE | 166 ACRES +/- |HARMONY, MN Sealed Bids due 07/21/22 Sealed bids will be accepted at Nethercut Schieber PA, 32 Main Ave N, Harmony, MN 55939, until July 21, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., for the sale of farm real estate located approximately 3 miles Northwest of Harmony, MN, owned by the Robert D. Burmeister Estate. The property features 166 acres +/- and is being offered in parcels or as a whole. Parcel 1: 102.41 acre +/- parcel of mostly tillable land; Parcel 2: 45.29 acre +/- parcel, tillable and wooded; Parcel 3: both parcels 1 & 2 combined; Parcel 4: 19 acres of woods. The tillable land is being sold subject to outstanding lease for 2022 and 2023. Buyer shall receive fall rent payment (1/2 of annual lease payment). It is being sold as is. Bids should be placed in a sealed envelope and marked “Burmeister Bid”. The bid should indicate the relevant parcel(s), bid amount, bidder’s contact information, and must be received by 11:00 a.m. on 07/21/22. The Seller reserves the right to hold a bid-off with the top three bidders on each parcel. Any bid-off shall occur at 11:00 a.m. on 07/22/22 at 32 Main Ave N, Harmony, MN or such other location as later announced. The seller re-
Jackson Hewitt takes his turn at waterskiing. Members can start on the team at the age of 3 years old.
serves the right to accept any bid and reject any or all bids and to negotiate with bidders. Successful bidders will be expected to enter into a standard purchase agreement and provide non-refundable earnest money in the amount of 10% of the purchase price on the day of the bid award. Closing shall be on or before 08/26/22. CZJULY16_1B_JM
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A grader part of history Ronningen collects antique road blades BY GRACE JEURISSEN STAFF WRITER
WEST CONCORD – Preserving parts of history has always been a passion of retired dairy farmer Kelly Ronningen. This is one reason behind his large collection of J.D. Adams and Company road graders. When passing by the farm, now run by Ronningen’s son, Kurt, the most prominent view is the small pasture with an array of graders. “My first interest in the graders was when my dad used one of the township’s old ones to grade the driveway,” Ronningen said. “I really enjoyed watching the dirt move from under the grader.” Ronningen began collecting graders when he was 40 years old, and his collection has grown for the last 35 years; he now owns 26. “What started as one for fun quickly
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Kelly Ronningen’s road graders are all horse-drawn and were used around the 1920s. 920s. Their current place of residence is a small pasture on the Ronningen farm near West Concord..
turned into many,” Ronningen said. “Now I can search the internet and find different ones on auction.” Around the 1920s,
when most of Ronningen’s collection was manufactured, graders were horse drawn and used for building roads. Many of them were used by townships. Typically, the townships would have six graders, each required to grate 6 miles of road. Ronningen said farmers would offer to grate the roads and in return would receive a tax deduction. Joseph D. Adams invented the leaning-wheel road grader in 1885. The machine had a two-wheel frame that housed a blade with a fixed angle and was pulled by a team of horses or mules. The contraption could angle its wooden wheels to one side. In 1896, Adams manufactured a grader made entirely of steel that had an 8-foot blade and the wheels could lean in either direction. This road grader was pulled by horses, mules or towed by a steam engine. Ronningen said when pulling the grader via a steam engine or tractor, large rocks would sometimes bend the blades. This problem Graders were purchased from mail order catalogs with was avoided with horses many different options. This grader came with hard or mules because when the team felt something rubber tires, most had metal wheels.
wrong, they would stop. Ronningen prefers J.D. Adams and Company graders; the company manufactured excavating equipment until 1955 when it ceased production. J.D. Dams was bought out by Letourneau-Westinghouse who is still a large manufacturer of excavating equipment. When Ronningen acquired his first road grader, he pulled it with a tractor. Shortly after, his daughter, Renae, wanted a horse, and he saw an opportunity to utilize his road graders the old-fashioned way. Each grader is equipped with hooks to attach the horse reins to. The grader also has a wheel that is used to rotate the blade. Because some graders are larger and used a bigger team of horses, they were equipped with two people, one to drive the team and one to run the grader. This was common in projects that involved carving landscape, building roads and digging ditches.
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Kelly Ronningen discusses cusses where he acquires his graders ders July 11 near West Concord. The farthest he has traveled for one was to Idaho.
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Ronningen from 10 “You would be very impressed with how steep these blades can angle,” Ronningen said. “I have a few graders that have standing platforms which allow the driver to stand at three different angles so when working in a steep landscape they can always be standing up straight.” His original rule was to stick to the J.D. Adams and Company horse-drawn graders, but he has purchased one motorized road grader with tracks powered by a 10-20 international. His reasoning behind the purchase was the unique track feature. The rest of his collection has hard rubber or metal wheels. “I have always found it fascinating to think about the time, effort and ingenuity it took to piece together these road graders,” Ronningen said. “Just think how much precision it took to bend the metal for these frames without the use of today’s technology.” No two graders are exactly alike, Ronningen said. Like babies given names at birth, each grader either has a plate with a name, like
reclamation ditcher, or a number, like J.D. Adams No. 8. Ronningen said he spoke with a few men who helped assemble the graders; when it was slow, the painting division would get creative with the way they colored the graders. They all carried the hunter green color, but an interesting twist would be applied. Ronningen purchased a J.D. Adams No. 8 grader that was in several pieces but came with a cab. Once Ronningen put it together, he sent it to an Amish man south of Goodhue County that had an innate ability behind the paint brush. He freehand painted pinstripe designs along the grader to bring it to its original glory. “They were all originally custom built,” Ronningen said. After starting his collection, Ronningen came across catalogs and literature that explained the history of the road graders. This only furthered his interest in the contraptions. In his many years of collecting, Ronningen has stumbled across other people with the
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This J.D. ADAMS No. 8 road grader came equipped with a cab and hard rubber tires. Kelly Ronningen fixed this grader to its former glory and had it painted the traditional Hunter Green color.
same hobby and thinks someday a grader museum would be the perfect way for him to display the collection. It is not uncommon
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Ronningen is fond of his collection and, despite not adding to it for a few years, is looking forward to finding his next addition.
“I like old things, and this is a unique part of history that not many people think about,” Ronningen said.
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