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		<title>When Life Hands You Cold&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our favorite winter proverb around here is &#8220;When life hands you cold, make something hot in the kitchen.&#8221; A cake or pie is always nice baking in the oven, but to really warm the house up on a miserable morning my hands-down favorite strategy is to make stock. Simmering on top of the stove for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inauguration Day 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go down a walk now together, children, pledging that we won&#8217;t get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone with your hands of power and your heart of love. Help us then now Lord to work for that day when nation shall not lift up sword against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re On The Map!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A customer recently sent us a link to a really cool site, The Madison 100 Mile Diet Map, a resource created by four UW-Madison cartography students who wanted to provide an easy way for area residents to find locally produced foods. And Circle M is on the map! Of course, the map is not about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like all Judeo-Christian celebrations, Sabbath and Sunday included, Easter is all about getting the day off work and eating. Well, that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s all about, but God certainly knows us well enough to prescribe a feast when He wants us to remember something. He&#8217;s good. Easter morning at the Marion dining room table. Candy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Begins with a Bang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring began here this week with a bang. Literally. Five little piggies (actually huge 300-pound porkers), five sheep and two goats went off to market, as we harvested last year&#8217;s babies and made room for those soon-to-be born. The bittersweet event makes the start to the new season both deeply satisfying and awfully sobering. Like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Recall: Or Why I&#8217;m Glad I Know My Meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first response to the news about this week&#8217;s gigantic beef recall was to read the stories and skip the videos offered on the internet. I feel pretty ambivalent about the ubiquitous access we have to graphic &#8220;news&#8221; footage. While I appreciate the accountability such access allows, I think the media often slides into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most pervasive feeling that characterizes my life here on this pretty little farm is Thankfulness. And then there are mornings like today when it&#8217;s 14 degrees below zero at morning chore time. When we lived in a rather shabby two-flat in Chicago, my signature decorating flourish was writing on walls. The cracked plaster in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valuing Spark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I lived in Chicago and was peripherally involved in the indie-folk music scene, I chanced to be in a band with a fabulous Rastafarian bassist named Spark. He would occasionally piss us all off by refusing to play in a particular venue. His reason? He objected to how the kitchen was run. Perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-Valuing Our Animals and Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several days after the artificial insemination adventure, I was filing the receipt from our swine semen supplier and noticed that the box and its fragile contents had cost us $79.00. The slip broke our costs down into $7 for each tube of semen, 42 cents for each &#8220;Goldenpig,&#8221; which must have been the yellow-foam-tipped straw, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better to Be Lucky Than Good</title>
		<link>http://www.circlemfarm.com/2007/better-to-be-lucky-than-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kriss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Better to be lucky than good.&#8221; Shannon picked up this salty proverb from a foreman during his days as laborer on a carpentry crew. It&#8217;s one we pulled out quite often during our home-remodeling years back in Chicago. Now it&#8217;s something of a daily liturgy spoken here on the farm. We don&#8217;t just appreciate getting [...]]]></description>
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