Whole NHOats

Whole NHOats Whole NHOats is the unofficial name of grains raised and sold on the Nuessmeier farm. What the heck is a hulless oat?

Well, it's not really hulless, it's just that the hull stays on the stalk when you harvest the grain. Tim and Tom Nuessmeier are growing a delicious, high quality organic variety of this high-protein grain on their beautiful fifth-generation family farm in in Sharon Township, Minnesota, within shouting distance of their pastured pigs. They also grow a variety of other organic small grains, including triticale and rye, along with organic soybeans and corn.

early summer grassall the memoriesof forgotten paths Basho
05/30/2026

early summer grass
all the memories
of forgotten paths
Basho

05/07/2026

bird song
echoing into
the far fields
—Basho

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us
—author Susan Griffen

04/24/2026

In honor of Earth Day, a passage by the author Mary Oliver, celebrating and discovering the earth in her own unique way
“..Deep in the woods, I tried walking on all fours. I did it for an hour or so, through thickets, across a field, down to a cranberry bog. I don’t think anyone saw me! At the end, I was exhausted and sore, but I had seen the world from the level of the grasses, the first bursting growth of trees, declivities, lumps, slopes, rivulets, gashes, open spaces. I was some slow old fox, wandering, hitching along, lying down finally at the edge of the bog, under the swirling rick-rack of the trees. You must not ever stop being whimsical! And you must not ever give anyone else the responsibility for your life!”
—from the essay, “Staying Alive”, excerpted from the book, “Blue Pastures”

“Outside, it is warm and blue and April..”—from the journals of Sylvia Plath
04/17/2026

“Outside, it is warm and blue and April..”
—from the journals of Sylvia Plath

04/11/2026

“If you have watched something for two minutes and found it ‘boring’, look again for four minutes. If still boring, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty two…Eventually, you will discover that what you are seeing is not boring at all..”
—composer John Cage

04/03/2026

..swinging away the seconds
waiting with infinite patience
for that little girl to return…

03/24/2026

winter
fading as
footprints vanish
—Basho

03/07/2026

talking with
the sparrows
on a cold afternoon
—Issa
“…we know..you think us drab and common..
but we’ve seen you smile at our happy chatter on those cold winter days when no other birds sing..even while you long for those colorful and talented migrants winging north with the spring…”

footsteps echo softlyturning toward lightwinter moon—Issa
02/23/2026

footsteps echo softly
turning toward light
winter moon
—Issa

…chores done, horses fed, you smile into my arms as we watch the sun paint it’s exit..
02/15/2026

…chores done, horses fed, you smile into my arms as we watch the sun paint it’s exit..

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34895 277th Lane
Le Sueur, MN
56058

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(507) 931-2656

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