Who is going to suffer the most from environmental degradation? Kids Who is going to have to take over what ever green programs are being implemented today: Kids. If kids don’t learn what’s going on in the environment and care about it today – we can kiss tomorrow goodbye. Here […]
Last week Michael Pollan visited Madison (see my posts The Soul of a Carrot – Michael Pollan at UW Madison, Corn: How Do You Like Yours? , and In Defense of Food (and Books) Michael Pollan leads “Go Big Read” ), and for many of us it was kind of […]
Sunday when I was sitting outside enjoying a potluck picnic at Tom Brantmeier’s farm near Monroe WI, the blustery wind was keeping the flies at bay on a balmy, cloud-scudded, 72 degree afternoon. The wind picked up, and that night a pounding rainstorm quite literally poured cold water on the […]
Food is more than nutrients – much more, as Michael Pollan told me and 7,000 other eager listeners at the UW-Madison Kohl Center, (See my post In Defense of Food and Books) where huge crowds gather to cheer and jeer at basketball and hockey games. Last night they were all […]
If you live in Wisconsin, you can expect to be 4-9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer by 2050. We know this because Wisconsin is home to an amazing organization – Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI). This power-packed nexus of know-how from the University of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Natural […]
As we plan our farm, Doug and I often mull on whether it will include livestock. I’m not looking to keep animals for meat, but dairy seems so useful, sheep (to a knitter and spinner like me) just look right grazing on a hill. Chickens would be a great source […]
Because our little barn is a timber frame structure covered with slabs of oak weathering to a silvery patina, I like to think it looks like it belongs where it is. (See my post, Building our Timberframe Barn here . But when it was being built, the site looked like […]
What tastes better than fresh hot – almost-too-hot-to-hold – corn on the cob, still sweet from picking? Whether each succulent kernel is coated in melted butter, or my new favorite, melted blue cheese (I get an award winning block of Blue Paradise from its friendly creators Tony and Julie Hook […]
Books are portals to other worlds. Opening the cover is like opening a door for me. I walk through and leave what I call Reality Number One behind. (I number my realities because I am usually reading several books at once, and they all take me to different places. Some […]
I was caught short my first winter as a serious locavore. I did not know what any kid 4H would have known in 1950. I decided in the fall to depend on what area farmers could offer when it was too late to put any local fruits and veggies in […]
Digging in the Driftless 