Who What When Where Why How The Midwest Driftless Area is a glorious place. Trout Unlimited calls it a national treasure and has pinned its scaly dreams on restoring the streams that trace its deep, convoluted valleys. This dramatic landscape, carved deep by ancient water courses, is far older than […]
A Rough Site Plan for 2012 When we set out to find land in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, we imagined moving into an old farm house. What we fell for was 44 acres with a south-facing slope that looked to be a promising house site where we would become […]
I was walking up Lloyd’s Lane when I saw something vividly yellow peaking out of the green stuff. (We hadn’t had our 44 acres very long, and it was all pretty much green stuff then.) We investigated and discovered a Yellow Lady Slipper bursting out of the earth. Of the […]
Who What When Where Why How So, who is telling you this? My daughter, a budding green architect, recently described me as an unreconstructed hippy venting my pioneer woman leanings through conservation biology. !!! And now I see that she has just posted about my blog on her blog Lost […]
Digging in the Driftless 