Thursday, December 11, 2025
Little Pasture on the Prairie

Little Pasture on the Prairie

tools

Eliza Blue reflects on how the real work of her adulthood is not learning how to do it all; it’s about learning how to joyfully leave work undone.
camper

Eliza Blue is starting a traveling theater company with her birthday camper, a cobbled-together portable stage and JOY.
prairie rainbow

Eliza Blue considers how rare and how vital rain is to ranchers and homesteaders in western South Dakota, grateful for the recent rain there.
yarn

Eliza Blue makes changes in her sheep flock to improve her fiber business, remembering lambing difficulties with the breed she chose after the fact.
prairie grass

May offers Eliza Blue and the animals on her ranch a reprieve from the sometimes harsh weather in South Dakota.
sheep

Hildy, an ewe Eliza Blue worried might be barren, surprised her with a giant lamb right at the end of her lambing season.
lamb

While lambing season is expectedly exhausting, Eliza Blue knows it will end the same as it always does and be worth all the effort she put into it.
lambs

Lambing season reminds Eliza Blue how much she loves being a shepherd and how thankful she is to be the caretaker of her flock.
lambs

Eliza Blue publishes a new book, “The Adventures of Pearl & Theo," and shares an excerpt from the first chapter.
guitar

Eliza Blue reflects on how the quality of quietness seems to define her musical work, spanning geographies, genres and art forms.