Today my post is a link to an article in On Wisconsin that I wrote this spring about Anne Topham, the godmother of goat cheese. Anne milks her goats and makes her cheeses on Fantôme Farm in The Driftless Area just a few miles from my own 44 acres. Wisconsin […]
Mom was right. We should eat our vegetables. Now even some insurance companies want you to supersize your salad (read about this below). But more than that, if we choose vegetables that are produced locally as much as we can, we will improve not only our own health but the […]
Every time I sprinkle baker’s yeast into warm water and honey, then see it bloom and rise to the surface like foam on a rich beer, I feel like I am witnessing life begin in a primordial sea. I am a farmer watching my microcosmic crop ripen in the space […]
Digging in the Driftless 