Every once in a while I think God just leaves His people love signs and this is a story of one of them. Joe Bergbower is a farmer and an artist. Joe attends the St. Thomas Catholic church in Newton, Illinois. There was a big tree in front of the church, and a while back a […]
Hip Hip Hooray for pasta! I didn’t travel to Italy, just with my friend Janna Seiz to Springfield Illinois and Lincoln Land Community College for the 2nd half of my cooking class to get my Italian fix. The class was with Chef Denise Perry who taught us all about the Principles of Cooking. As part […]
The Mug Tree is a road side landmark outside of Yale, Illinois. The town of Yale according to the sign has a population of a whopping 100 residents. Truly I think each and every one of them may have put a mug on the mug tree, it is filled with mugs of various shapes and […]
Joe Bergbower had a plow day south of Newton, Illinois on September 26th. I met up with Jane Elliott and headed east to cover the event for Farm World and found Joe had something I love, yard art! Joe makes foxes, geckos, coyotes, turtles, people and an amazing bull all out of materials he had […]
Fall is a great time for visiting apple orchards, or if you are lucky like I am, you might even have an apple tree in your own backyard. The apple tree in my yard is a small one, the larger one we had for years has bit the dust and the two transparent apple trees […]