Thursday, July 17, 2025
Little Pasture on the Prairie

Little Pasture on the Prairie

camper

Eliza Blue is starting a traveling theater company with her birthday camper, a cobbled-together portable stage and JOY.
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.
sunset on a corn field

Eliza Blue mourns the loss of another beloved member of her community.
horse

Eliza Blue shares the legend of the Bloody Shoulder marking after getting her daughter a horse with it.
butternut squash

Eliza Blue discusses the surprising benefits grasshoppers had on her winter squash plants this year.
kitten

Eliza Blue finds comfort and hope in the resilient little kitten she's been tasked with bottle feeding around the clock.
Clun Forest sheep

The small flock of Clun Forest sheep Eliza Blue brought home a few months ago have been everything she ever hoped for in sheep.
nettle

Eliza Blue battles weeds in a community garden she helped start in her small town in South Dakota.
grasshopper

This is the part of the summer when Eliza Blue discovers what the defining insect infestation of the season is going to be. It looks like grasshoppers.
lamb

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.