Cob ovens are not too difficult to build and can be a lot of fun. One of the people building Underhill House, Brad Selz, had some experience in making cob ovens and offered to guide us through the process. So after house construction was done for the day, we spent […]
Summer is a great time to teach kids about solar energy. (So are spring, fall and winter – but summer is when organizations tend to schedule enrichment activities for obvious […]
Here is my most recent publication – an article on the thriving local, fresh-cut flower growers in Southwest Wisconsin. This article may have generated the most gorgeous Isthmus cover ever. When […]
The Nelson Environmental Institute 11th annual Earth Day Conference considered the Future of Food. Skip the Big Mac and pass the tofu, please.
We were pleased to write this page for The Dodgeville Chronicle Earth Day Issue! As Earth Day, April 22, 2017, approaches, it seems fitting that so many people are […]
Health is the capacity of the land for self renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and serve this capacity.
Wisconsin’s SNAs are not like state parks. They are more like arks – preserving some of our state’s natural diversity from the rising tide of development that threatens to overwhelm the […]
