Published Jul 31, 2024

PFI Member Photo Album: Summer 2024
By Practical Farmers of Iowa

This section features photos taken by PFI members. Whether you’re a farmer, landowner or a non-farmer, we invite you to share your images of the everyday, the awe-inspiring or the curiously beautiful from your farm or community; we’ll work to curate them into the album.

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Beekeeper Joe Klingelhutz points to a honeybee swarm ready to establish a new colony. (Kathy Dice, Red Fern Farm, Wapello, Iowa)
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A crop of organic oats is off to a great start. (Eric Mahaney, Grazn, Arion, Iowa)
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The last rays of a sunset over the nose of a tractor during fieldwork in early April. (James Frantzen, Frantzen Farm, New Hampton, Iowa)
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Piglets born in April learn to pile up and latch on to get a bellyful of milk. (Anna Pesek, Over the Moon Farm, Coggon, Iowa)
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Seedlings soak in the rays of the setting sun in early spring. (Angie Scharnhorst, Bountiful Harvest Farm, Solon, Iowa)
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Frequent farm visitor Aolani visits with her friends, Max the cat and Milky Way the nanny with one of her triplets. (Jenny Horner, Spring Lake Organic Farm, Red Oak, Iowa)
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A great horned owlet rests in the shelter of a tree in a woodlot. (Mike Feldpouch, Roger Homan’s farm, Waterloo, Iowa)
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Striking a pose in amongst the apple blossoms. (Mayo Fottral, Plum Creek Orchard, Swisher, Iowa)
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Grape hyacinths marching in a row. (Nancy Brannaman, The Lavender Farm at Sutliff, LLC, Lisbon, Iowa)
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Scottish Highland cows from Mud Ridge Ranch near Red Oak, Iowa, team up with Pottawattamie County Conservation to stress invasive cool-season grasses to restore warm-season prairie at the Hitchcock Nature Center near Crescent, Iowa. (Lance Brisbois, Golden Hills RC&D, Crescent, Iowa)