About an hour north of Des Moines near the town of Jewell, Iowa, and perched along the banks of a lake drained in the late-1890s, Kevin and Ranae Dietzel’s 80-acre farm is edged by a tall stand of 100-year-old oaks. Right now, the trees mark a stark contrast between the pale, milky sky and the inches of snow coating the expanse of farmland underneath. Standing in a tiny patch of chilly, mid-afternoon sun, a thermos in hand, Ranae shares that the long-gone lake is the inspiration for Lost Lake Farm’s name.
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Lost Lake Farm's Emmentaler and Burrnt Oak cheeses in the cheesery's aging room.
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Come April, Kevin Dietzel will resume his rotational grazing practices on their 80-acre Iowa farm.
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