As you know, I have been doing the 365 project. And although I stopped posting the photos here without any fanfare, I have done really well capturing every day this year but one with a photo that is representative of the day (the one day I missed featured a whoops). Here’s a collection of thumbnails [...]
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Lessons Learned Through My Blogging Challenge, an A to Z on Agriculture
I have done a few different blogging and social media challenges in the past couple of years, but have to say the A to Z Challenge may have been the toughest! And even though someone has suggested that I should start again with AA and BB, I’m taking a break from the series — at [...]
How Do You Make Your Blog Better? Time, Effort & Shared Expertise
For the last several weeks, I have been doing small things to tweak my blog. I doubt anyone even noticed it, but it took quite a few hours. My efforts were coordinated with a very small group of farm bloggers put together by Judi Graff aka the FARMnWIFE. At first I thought I could let [...]
What Do Beginning Bloggers Need To Know?
Recently beginning bloggers have been on my mind a good bit and then last night at. St Louis bloggers meet up, I met Christina from Homemade Ocean. She had lots of enthusiasm and questions. Whitney from Cafe Mocha Reflections was there too and although she had more experience, questions remained. Next thing I knew the [...]
“Big Ag” Only Seems Faceless VIDEO
When I think about farmers, I have a myriad of farmers faces come to mind these days. It’s a far cry from the world I grew up in. If you look through some of my blog posts you will see lots of those faces. Some that come to mind are Chris who showed me around [...]
Talking about Social Agriculture: Social Media’s Role in Agriculture VIDEO
I meant to pop another post or two up here a week or two ago about the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in Nashville. See I got busy writing about the things that were happening there and things I learned. What is Farm Bureau? That & Other Thoughts as I Head to #AFBF13 Drought [...]
Year-End Review — Top 12 of 2012 Plus Some
This past year was a great one for both me and my blog, mainly because the blog is a personal one I guess. I have had a lot going on and I have shared a lot of it here on the blog. As I wrote this, I really enjoyed reviewing 2012. So while most of [...]
From a Minnesota Dairy Farm to a St. Louis Bloggers Conference (Video)
During Show Me the Blog St. Louis, I have to admit, I got a charge finding out that Midwest Dairy had sponsored two women who participated in a spring social media session to come to the event. The two family farmers from Minnesota — Janet Bremer of Bremer Farms and Becky Bode from Bode Dairy – started blogs [...]
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G is for GMOs — What are GMOs & Why Do Farmers Plant GMO Crops?
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A is for Agriculture — an A to Z Series about Agriculture
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Cotton Gin in Kansas Made Me Pump My Brakes
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Stereotype Busters And A Need to Vent
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E is for Elevator — an A to Z Series about Agriculture
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Sticks & Stones May Break My Bones, But Abercrombie Clothes Will Never Fit Me
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How to Edit Mobile Photos Quickly & Without Expensive Software
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Reviving My Series of Food Polls With Apples! Which is your favorite?
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Left Wordless By Visiting a Flower Farm — Lots of Irises & Peonies!
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What’s with that Hayden Panettiere cotton commercial?
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Janice Person: Oh, and please know... my heart goes out to your f...
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Jennifer: Well said, JP. My thoughts were: The guy's a jer...
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Kasse: Janice, I loved reading this. I am so disconnecte...
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Deanie H. Dunne (@hollyssis): It's disgraceful what Abercrombie and Fitch has d...
Who is JP?
Thanks for stopping by and wondering what I am about. My passions are photography, travel and agriculture -- love spending time taking pictures on a farm far from home. Putting all those things together its understandable that differences in culture are intriguing to me…. I can spend a lot of time soaking up things. Its almost always a colorful adventure!
