Published Feb 3, 2025

Member Photo Album – Winter 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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Winry Tucksen enjoying a cucumber at the Hampton Farmers Market. (Karen Koenig (Grandma), Koenigs’ Acres Farm, Hampton, IA)
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Bean field headed into fall. (Dave Bangert, Donnellson, IA)
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Pumpkin (the pony) helps the boys and Dad (Mike) with chores. (Janine Robertson, Knob Hill Farm, Webster City, IA)
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A mandala garden takes shape, awaiting its cover crop. (Sandro Lopes, David City, NE)
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“It’s that time of year… ‘suitors’ are on the way! Does my pokeweed berry juice look alright?” (Margaret Wolter, Sandhill Acres, Chelsea, IA)
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Selfie-approved – it’s a good day to seed cover crops! (Jacob Bolson, Hubbard, IA)
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Sunset over a soybean field. This field is part of a PFI Cooperators‘ Program trial testing the impact of cover crops on the number days suitable for field work. (Bob Sullivan, Woodbine, IA)
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American British White Park bull calf, “Pancho,” poses for a sunset photo. (Linda Wattonville, Wattonville Family Farm, Allenman, IA)
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The annual apple cider-making: washing apples and crushing in a hydraulic press. (Denise O’Brien, Rolling Acres Farm, Atlantic, IA)
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Morning dew on a collard leaf. (Joe Hunt Wassink, Black Earth Gardens, Cedar Rapids, IA)
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It’s almost like harvesting rainbows. (Ken Wise at Meryl & Dave Hiler Farm, Rockwell City, IA)
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An afternoon honeydew treasure hunt in the garden completed. (Eric Cleveland, Cleveland Family Farms, Alden, IA)