Anamoose, ND

The July 15, 2008, McHenry County Homemakers Tour was planned by the Ideal Homemakers Club of Anamoose and 27 participants enjoyed the many points of interest after coffee, juice and homemade muffins at our new fire hall. 

      The first stop was at the Otto Geigle Farm, formerly know as Moorhead Farm #2.  Otto moved to the farm in 1973.  The huge milking barn and the rock walls were very impressive as was the history that Otto shared with us.

    Our second stop was at Pete’s Tractor Salvage where everyone took a great interest in “Pete’s Toy Shed”.  Everyone knows he has the part your looking for and he sends them all over the world!!!  We didn’t get to see Pete as he was fishing but his daughter took good care of us.

    The Premium Gold Flax Processing Plant was our next stop out at the farm of Randy and Debbie Miller.  A gift of “DashO’Flax” (pre-ground Golden Flax Seed) was given as token of appreciation for coming to their fine business as well as fresh lemonade & cookies made with their products.  They were delicious.  Many of us made onsite purchases and we heard about the many benefits of flax in our diets from Debbie.  We were able to see the many processing machines and how they get everything together before shipment to many countries and states.  They plan to have Flax Cookies for sale sometime in October - we can’t wait for them to come out!!!

From there we returned to the Anamoose Bakery/Cafe for a delicious buffet dinner made by Connie Rudnick and her staff.  Everyone left there feeling VERY satisfied and full - it was an excellent meal!!   

                           Then it was back to the Anamoose School bus driven by our very experienced driver - Lisa Ponzer. 

    Our first afternoon stop was at the Lonetree Wildlife Management Area Office, where Scott Peterson gave us an overview what they are all about and what they do to preserve the wildlife and vegetation in the area.

The “After Thoughts Gallery”, where Dora Heil paints and shows her remarkable artistry in a “1923″ church was our first stop in Harvey.  Many purchases were made by the tour group.   

    From there we went to the Dakota Prairie Organic Flour Co.  The expansion project going on right now is remarkable as they acquire many more customers from all over the world.  We were given a fine tour and explanation of the whole process from the grains down to the shipping of the finished product of flour.  We all felt really cute in those capes we had to wear!

The Tour Group then proceeded to Rue 54 for some wine and chocolate tasting as well as shopping.  Sorry no pictures taken as the photographer was to busy tasting and forgot! 

We also shopped the Que’ Sers’ and “Sew Wild and Woody” while in Harvey.  The bus then returned to Anamoose with some tired passengers as that was really a FULL and FUN day of activities.  Everyone received a package of homemade egg noodles from the Anamoose Farmers market and made by Alma Rau.  Many door prizes were given out throughout the day and we heard allot of interesting answers to Phyllis Zimmerman’s ND Trivia questions. 

 Thanks goes out to the planning committee it was a great tour!