Choosing to be a dairy farmer means you're open to grueling, and sometimes thankless, work. But there’s deep joy hidden in the dairy life – sometimes it just takes a while to recognize it.
“I never thought I was going to be a dairy farmer,” said Syke Talsma, who ended up doing just that.
12-foot snow drifts. 50 mph winds. Subzero temperatures. They didn’t call it Winter Storm Goliath for nothing. And when it hit the Vander Dussens’ dairy farm in Clovis, New Mexico, it hit hard. But the Vander Dussens didn’t go down.
The Diepersloot house is always full of people. When Adrian was growing up in California, there’d be extra hands there to work on the dairy each summer.
“I loved that, at nine or 10 in the morning, everybody would be in the house,” Adrian says. “Coffee would be going and my mom would have a full spread of breakfast for everybody. With friends, family, employees. And we always had a random guy or two from Holland living with us.”
The first time his wife Jaclyn met his family, she fell in love with it, too.
There’s something wonderful about cheese. Alone or with other dishes, cheese often makes an appearance on my plate. As a dietitian, I love cheese’s powerful nutrient package. As a foodie, I love the versatility and variety of cheese. Beyond the great taste, it also does the body good.
Cheese can also fit into these diets:
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David Lawrence kissed Jan the very first day they met.
“No sense in wasting time,” he says.
That’s been his sentiment since he was a kid: “My dad tells me a story of when I was 4 or 5 years old. He was going to the barn one morning about 4 o'clock, and I was outside playing in the sand pile. No sense in sleeping all day: get up and get after it.”