Breakfast on the Farm

Making pancakes on the farm. 6/7/25 dwm

Since we moved back to Wisconsin, yesterday was the eighth time we had breakfast on the farm.

It was the first time we had breakfast in Rock County since 2012. Before that, our family lived in Janesville from 1989 to 1993, and we made it to a couple. The breakfast idea I remember most was frosted flakes on Culver's frozen custard.

2025 was the second time the Templeton Farms hosted the big event. It's quite an undertaking that requires lots of help.

Wagons welcome guests. 6/7/25 dwm

The breakfast featured pancakes and sausage with yogurt and fresh cheese curds with a choice of coffee or two types of milk, white and chocolate. Even better, you could have a bowl of ice cream after breakfast. I had mine topped with strawberries to make it healthier.

This year's farm is run by the fifth generation of the Templeton family. It started with Peter Templeton who left Ayrshire, Scotland in 1905. He settled in this area north of Evansville, Wisconsin in 1919.

The family adjusted to the times and demands of agriculture. Today the operation farms 1,300 acres for crops while milking 150 Holstein cows three times a day.

Jones Sausages on the grill. 6/7/25 dwm

A third of their crops are used to feed their livestock - which are the milking cows and young stock, the rest is sold as grain.

The stars were the calves on display in a tent a short walk from where we ate (to see pictures scroll down).

Milking cows were lined up in a barn eating their own breakfast when they weren't jockeying to get into the photographs.

The adult breakfast is $10, not bad for a solid meal and the opportunity to see what America's Dairyland is all about. It's a tradition we plan to continue.