Chasing joy across the prairie and undertaking a new project
Eliza Blue is starting a traveling theater company with her birthday camper, a cobbled-together portable stage and JOY.
Stillness of the soul can be found in the busiest of times
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.
Mourning as a community means you are not alone
Eliza Blue mourns the loss of another beloved member of her community.
The legend of the Bloody Shoulder
Eliza Blue shares the legend of the Bloody Shoulder marking after getting her daughter a horse with it.
Grasshoppers and pumpkins
Eliza Blue discusses the surprising benefits grasshoppers had on her winter squash plants this year.
What we save, saves us
Eliza Blue finds comfort and hope in the resilient little kitten she's been tasked with bottle feeding around the clock.
Conserving biodiversity through heritage breeds
The small flock of Clun Forest sheep Eliza Blue brought home a few months ago have been everything she ever hoped for in sheep.
A love-hate letter to weeds
Eliza Blue battles weeds in a community garden she helped start in her small town in South Dakota.
Grasshoppers invade South Dakota this year
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.
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.
