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Tales from the farm

Cover of Charlotte’s Critter Caboose: The Great Time Adventure — Dolly and Charlotte on the winged caboose

A caboose tale

Charlotte’s Critter Caboose: The Great Time Adventure

Charlotte, Dolly, Zephyr, Pip, and Spark lift off in the rusty red caboose — dragon wings, a wormhole, and sunflowers by last light.

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Cover of The Goat Maiden of Arktopia County — Dolly in a rose crown beside a white goat at the festival

A festival tale

The Goat Maiden of Arktopia County

Dolly needs a steady partner for the biggest wedding in the county. Barnaby jumps. Clover eats the daisies. Glimmer stands still.

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Cover of The Story of the Rescue — Dolly and Charlotte on the caboose above a future city

A rescue tale

The Story of the Rescue

The caboose drops into a dying future. The Dodecahedron calls the Wampus Cat. Ocean the barn cat comes home to Arkatype Farms.

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Cover of Dolly and the Gift of the Snawfus — Dolly beside a winged white deer with flowering antlers

An Ozarks legend

Dolly and the Gift of the Snawfus

Dolly meets the winged white deer of the hills — antlers in bloom, magick standing in the garden like it belongs there.

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Cover of The Chronos Caprines of Arkatype Farms — two goats before a library wormhole of airships

A time-travel tale

The Chronos Caprines of Arkatype Farms

Tucker, Jonas, and Piston find time-travel harnesses in the Arktopia County Library and step into a steampunk sky of airships.

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Cover of The Great Pond Plan at Arkatype Farms — Professor Gruff and a Muscovy duck at the pond

A pond accord

The Great Pond Schedule

Mr. & Mrs. Black, Mr. & Mrs. Brown, and Professor Gruff settle the willow pond with a timetable and a grease pencil.

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From the Desk September 10, 2026 • By Dr. Emily Gruff

Thinking like a ridge

Behind the botanical folio sat a book she had treated as furniture. A Sand County Almanac. Aldo Leopold. He learned, watching a wolf die, that the mountain keeps longer books than the rifle. A thing is right when it keeps the community intact — soil, spring, oak, goat, and the human who thought the fence was the end of the story.

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Earlier: The way does not hurry the fescue

— Dr. Emily Gruff
Philosophy of the County

Wedding Pasture September 16, 2026 • By Button, as told to Nanny Belle Quill

Before the Maiden takes the tray

Four reels and a parlor assignment. Button still growing into the desk. Belle on the hem. Scoop left the flash in the drawer. Inkhorn took the notebook a wedding will not schedule. Professor Gruff stayed in the manger: write the glasses on the tray, not the girl who learned to time-jump. Leave the rails off the page. Back before the light goes mean.

The Maiden funds the hill. The paper tells the county what the hill may say. Do not get those jobs confused.

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— Button, with Belle at his elbow
Field pair: Scoop & Inkhorn · Manger: Professor Gruff, D.Capr.

From the Editor September 13, 2026 • By Professor Gruff

From the editor’s manger

Dear readers, kids, and the teal hunter who asked whether a goat counts as a decoy: No. A goat is not a decoy. A goat is a critic. If you set us in a blind we will eat the camo and file a review.

The calendar has remembered that September is a hinge. Teal opened Saturday. Archery opened Tuesday. Dixon raffles a cow. Perryville still has sequins on the horizon. Jefferson City can expire stationery. A spring does not read stationery.

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— Professor Gruff
Editor & Publisher

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