Happy Friday! Nothing too exciting to report this week. Still a few weeks to go before harvest, but the good news is that we’re now in “second summer” in Illinois (you know, the couple of weeks that comes after “false fall”), so lots of warm weather helping the corn along as it reaches the finish…
Author: Gracie Weinzierl Pierson
The farm kid behind A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture. Coffee drinker. Cat enthusiast. Borderline plant hoarder. History buff. Lover of all things agriculture. Co-host of AgBookClub. Find my posts on FarmKidBlog.com and AgBookClub.com. Follow me on Twitter at @FarmKidBlog.
Episode 037 – Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
The annual release of Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks seems to be the unofficial beginning of the fall season, but are they really all they’re cracked up to be? In this episode, Claire and Gracie discuss the best place to get a PSL, the brilliance of the marketing team behind the original launch (seriously, your…
Follow the Field Update #11
Happy Friday! Still not much happening in the fields as we start thinking about preparing for harvest. It was a late spring, so it’ll be a few weeks before crops will be ready to go anyway. In the meantime, here’s the weekly #FollowtheField update! 9/6/19 Update: Cover Crop Soybeans (112 Days) Check out all of…


