Farmer Heidi Accola of Roots & Shoots CSA, near Baraboo and Sauk Prairie, takes us into the sugar bush on her farm where she taps about 75 to 100 maple trees each spring. We learn the process of making maple syrup, from drilling holes for the taps and hanging the sap bags, to hauling the sap […]
Bethanee Wright: Manifesting Her Farming Dream at Winterfell Acres
Bethanee Wright, 26, grew up in Milwaukee. Her parents owned a hardware store. “I could sell a hammer, but I didn’t learn anything particularly helpful for farming,” she recalls. While an undergrad at UW Madison, she started interning at FairShare CSA Coalition, where she caught the farming bug. Dennis Fiser, a FairShare staffer at the […]
Katy Dickson: Coming Home to Christensen’s Farm
Katy Dickson was 6 months pregnant, finishing grad school in elementary education and teaching on an Indian reservation in New Mexico, when she realized she wanted to move home to Wisconsin and grow organic food. After spending about 12 years living and working across the U.S. and serving in the Peace Corps in Nepal., she ended […]