The 2016 Polk County Fair is history as we finish cleaning up the historic 1858 Red School house for another year.  It is the historical sto...

   Gardening here on the Hanson farm got a boost with nearly 4 inches of rain the past week, one of them being a 3 inch soaker.  The strawb...

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Back in the late 1930s, the folks who had lived in West Sterling, along the St Croix River, got together for a reunion picnic at the junctio...

June has arrived on the farm; the gardens are growing, the grass lush, the hot weather still welcome, some lettuce, spinach, rhubarb and the...

With an excellent maple syrup season finished, gardening getting underway, and things going along smoothly, time to catch up a little here. ...

To Pulse or not to Pulse?  Does Pulsed Vacuum Improve Maple Sap Yields? R. Burl Hanson, Research Scientist, Northwestern Wisconsin Maple P...

Put out about 100 sap buckets last week and cooked out the first batch of syrup -- earlier than we have ever done in my memory.  With days i...

Spring weather breezed in Saturday with 60F on the farm, and sneaked away today with just above freezing.  We are close to tapping our maple...

First Drips of Sap of the Year  (the link is to the video on "Back Yard Syruping" my daily facebook post on how the maple sap s...