Reading Time: 4 minutes With two years working on the Hanson farm under his belt, Mark Edwards was a key member of the team. On Tuesday morning, he was in the yard with Jeff Hanson, calibrating the seeder before they took it out to the field. As Mark climbed up to the cab where Jeff was entering seeding rates […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Mark’s in a swoon, and it’s no wonder!
Despite all the technology on the Hanson farm, it’s people who are in charge, sort of
Hanson Acres: When change comes, it comes out of nowhere
Dale and Donna have some real thinking to do, which means Jeff and Elaine do too
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dale and Donna trudged across the Hanson yard, heads bent to keep the wet late-season snow out of their faces. They rounded the row of caraganas in time to see their daughter-in-law drive into the yard and park her SUV in front of her house. They watched Elaine climb out, carrying two large brown paper […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Mistaken identity in the line at the Co-op
If time won’t stop for the Hansons, at least they should be able to get the names right
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dale waited a full day after he’d dropped Donna off at the airport before he drove to the hardware store to buy new LED lights for the house. No discussion about the size of the power bill could persuade his wife that she’d enjoy reading just as much with LED lights. He’d heard all of […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Time to get involved? It’s a big question
There’s that four-hour drive to Saskatoon, and Elaine needs an answer
Reading Time: 4 minutes When her friend Katherine had phoned back in October to ask if she’d join the board of directors, Elaine Hanson had been pleased to be asked. She liked the idea of learning more about ag policy and how the industry works, but she knew she didn’t have the time. “Why not?” her friend asked. “I […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Under the stars in the countryside
Scarier than noises in the night — the moment with there’s no noise at all!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Donna pulled the alarm clock closer to the bed so she could see the time without putting on her glasses. 2:47 a.m. “Dale,” she said softly, wanting to wake her husband without startling him. When there was no answer, she tried again, louder. The third time that she called his name, Dale woke up, jerking […] Read more
Hanson Acres: One more thing for Donna’s list
For the Hanson family, that mid-winter trip to Hawaii just keeps giving and giving
Reading Time: 5 minutes Donna Hanson was trying to be as quiet as possible while she got ready to go out, but she still woke her husband, Dale. He opened his eyes and looked up at her. Then he raised his head a few inches and dropped it back to the pillow. “I’m feeling even worse than yesterday,” he […] Read more
Hanson Acres: The big moment comes with a hitch
Too many nerves, too much talk, too many games… oh, just put a ring on it!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two minutes before her wedding was scheduled to start, as she waited at the edge of the lawn to take the short walk down the beach toward her groom and the hired minister, Trina Hanson was worried. It wasn’t the weather. The weather was always perfect in Hawaii. It wasn’t her dress. She loved the […] Read more
Hanson Acres: It’s the last mile that really counts
All kinds of distances have to be travelled when Trina decides to tie the knot
Reading Time: 4 minutes By the time the Hanson family got to the check-in desk at their hotel in Maui, the normally mild-mannered Dale had lost his patience. “Look!” he whispered a little too loudly, elbowing his wife Donna. “That’s the couple that cut in front of us in the car rental lineup!” It was definitely the same couple […] Read more
Hanson Acres: That message at the post office
“You’re the only person I’ve talked to,” said their neighbour Tara, still shaking
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Here you go,” Gina said, passing a cardboard box through the open half-door of the post office into Elaine’s waiting arms. “I saw you pull up in front, so I dug this out of the stack for you.” Elaine laughed. “I wouldn’t get this kind of attention if I got my mail in the city!” […] Read more
Hanson Acres: What the heck… where’s my truck gone?
Nobody’s saying anything on the Hanson farm, which seems just fine
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Thanksgiving, the Hansons still hadn’t solved the mysteries of Labour Day Monday. And they certainly never discussed them. It had started when Jeff’s phone rang. After a half hour of shovelling long-spoiled grain out of an old wooden grain bin with temperatures in the high thirties and a sky filled with smoke from northern […] Read more
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