This quiet time of year on the ranch can still involve surprises
Eliza Blue's goat managed to give birth, clean and nurse her baby and have him up and bouncing around during the less than 24 hours everyone was gone.
Cat ranching not a good business plan
It's too bad cat ranching isn't a lucrative business model. Because if it was, Eliza Blue would have all the success.
Dakota plains life demands deep roots
The folks who live and work on the Dakota plains have to be as resilient and deeply rooted as the grasses that thrive here.
Find your own truth
Eliza Blue never thought she would get to a place where the many parts of herself could coexist. But she has and is enjoying every minute.
Beauty always finds a way
Plants that grow in South Dakota do so without aid because years of evolution taught them to thrive there. Humans that live there have to be like that, too.
Backyard gardening: Feast and famine in equal measures
Eliza Blue finds herself with too much cabbage for one family to ever possibly consume and not enough strawberries or peas.
Roots of friendship remain intertwined despite passing time
Eliza Blue welcomes a couple of friends she made that first night of college to visit her ranch and help with lambing.
Questionable decisions for the love of lambs
Eliza Blue adopts four orphaned lambs on top of the ones bred on her farm, making it an interesting, hectic and still-manageable lambing season.
Spring has finally sprung for May Day
The first of May isn't always spring in South Dakota. But Eliza Blue feels it's finally arrived on her ranch and she's soaking up every bit of it.
Finding gratitude in a winter storm
In the middle of a storm, in the middle of the night, Eliza Blue realized at long last everything really is going to be okay.
