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06/11/2026

I’m really struggling with processing my emotions of what happened to Horicon yesterday. You all know how much history, downtown, small businesses and community means to me. I’m absolutely heartbroken knowing how much the community is hurting right now. ❤️‍🩹

The realization that life and what we know can look completely different in a matter of seconds…. and now we wake up to another forecast that has the potential to be worse. It’s a gut punch.

So today, here’s your checklist:
- Keep your phones charged.
- Fill your gas tank
- Grab a case of water
- Flashlights, emergency batteries: charged
- Comfort snacks + chocolate.
- Keep your inner peace.

Being prepared doesn’t mean panicking. It just means you’re ready if you need to be.

Horicon friends: what do you need?

We’ll have the donation totes for Horicon outside Posie this morning. Visa gift cards and kwiktrip/piggly wiggly gift cards, check or cash should be brought inside rather than left in the tote. We will distribute money to the displaced and will have rakes, garbage bags, etc. for who needs them. Checks should be written to Marsh Area Chamber of Commerce. Depending on the weather, I’ll likely bring them inside this afternoon. If you need to drop something off and the doors are locked, just call, text, or message. Store phone is 920-644-2090

Stay safe today, friends. 🤍

This past week on the farm in pictures and videos. Sheep: sheared. Apples: forming. Chickens: undefeated.Kids: outside. ...
06/07/2026

This past week on the farm in pictures and videos.

Sheep: sheared. Apples: forming. Chickens: undefeated.

Kids: outside. We’re calling it a win.

📍 Mayberry Farms | Mayville, WI

Bare ground is vulnerable ground.We've been sharing the principles behind healthy soil — the things that guide how we ma...
06/05/2026

Bare ground is vulnerable ground.

We've been sharing the principles behind healthy soil — the things that guide how we manage this land long-term. If you missed the last couple posts, we covered plant diversity (Principle #3) and keeping living roots in the ground year-round (Principle #4). Today we're back with Principle #2. It's one of the simplest ideas in agriculture, and one of the most important.

When soil is left exposed — to wind, to rain, to the elements — it erodes. It compacts. It loses the structure that makes it capable of holding water, supporting roots, and feeding the microbiome underneath. Covered ground stays protected. Stays alive.
This is one of the simplest principles of soil health, and one of the most important.

Here's what it looks like on our farm.

Last fall, after our corn harvest, we chopped the stalks and left them on the field. It's a small decision that makes a big difference — keeping the ground covered through the winter months when it's most exposed. Those stalks break down over time, feeding the soil as they go.

We've also planted cover crops — grasses and legumes that hold the ground in place between seasons, adding organic matter and keeping the soil biology active even when nothing is being harvested.

And we sometimes rotate with wheat. Wheat is one of the best crops you can grow for soil coverage. Its dense root system holds the ground, and the residue it leaves behind protects the surface through the seasons that follow.

Strawberry farming is where this principle gets hardest for us.
When we plant strawberries, the soil is bare and vulnerable — especially in the spring, before the plants establish. And our farm slopes. When large rain events hit — which have become more frequent — that bare, unprotected soil doesn't stay on our farm. It moves. It ends up in the Rock River.

That's not just a loss for our fields. It's a loss for the watershed.
It's one of the things that weighs on us as we think about the future of strawberry farming here — and one more reason why the apple orchard, with its permanent root system and year-round ground coverage, feels like the right direction for this land.

None of this is complicated. It's just intentional.

Every decision we make about what covers this ground — and when — is a decision about the health of this farm for the long term. The soil that feeds our crops, our bees, and our apple trees deserves that kind of attention.

Covered ground. Healthy ground. 💚

We didn't set out to make skincare. We set out to use what we had. Swipe to see how the strawberry line got started — an...
06/03/2026

We didn't set out to make skincare. We set out to use what we had. Swipe to see how the strawberry line got started — and grab it at 25% off while it's here.

The strawberry patch is quiet this year.But we put strawberry season somewhere it can still reach you — in a bar of soap...
06/02/2026

The strawberry patch is quiet this year.

But we put strawberry season somewhere it can still reach you — in a bar of soap, a jar of salve, a balm that smells like a June morning in the field.

The whole strawberry line and other scents are 25% off right now. Shop at mayberryfarmswi.com.

05/27/2026

The shed came down. The trees went in. Now we’re putting up deer fencing and making this orchard official.

This is the work between the dream and the destination. This is the part most people don’t show you - we’re doing it anyway.

So someday you can come here and experience this while being a part of it from the beginning.

05/26/2026

This box contains about 60,000 bees… and I’m about to open it. 🐝

Even after years of beekeeping, opening a hive never gets old. Every inspection tells a story—how the colony is growing, whether the queen is thriving, and what the bees need next.

It’s one of my favorite jobs on the farm.

👇 Have a question about bees? Ask it below and I’ll answer it in a future video.

We're back to talking about soil health. If you didn't notice in our last post, we started with the 4th principle of soi...
05/26/2026

We're back to talking about soil health. If you didn't notice in our last post, we started with the 4th principle of soil health. Simply because it was an important one for us and today we're onto principle 3.

Rotating your crops isn't just good farming. It's how the soil gets to breathe. Different plants feed the ground in different ways. Rotating them breaks disease cycles, rebuilds nutrients, and keeps the underground ecosystem from burning out.

It's one of the most important things you can do for long-term soil health — and one of the hardest to follow perfectly when you're farming commercial strawberries on limited land.

That tension is real here. We knew the risk when we planted strawberries last spring. We didn't have another option. The soil told us what it needed, and we couldn't give it. That's small farm reality.

We're continuing the discussion on soil health series this week — follow along if you want to know how we think about the ground beneath everything we grow. 💚

To all our service men, women and families who made the ultimate sacrifice, we remember and thank you for fighting for u...
05/25/2026

To all our service men, women and families who made the ultimate sacrifice, we remember and thank you for fighting for us so that we may be free. 🇺🇸

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W2364 County Road Y
Mayville, WI
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