Kick off Women in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Week with the Soil Sisters! Patty is joined in the studio by Dela Ends, Bethany Storm, and Erica Roth of Soil Sisters, a Wisconsin-based collective of female farmers focused on sustainable agriculture. They talk about their upcoming three-day event, the unique challenges of homesteading, the changing tide of […]
Nourishing Friends and Family at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm
Lauren and Kyle Rudersdorf are in their fifth season of farming (they married in season two!) at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm between Evansville and Broadhead, Wisc. They lease 4 acres on the farm where Lauren grew up. The two graduated from UW Madison during the recession. The scarcity of jobs and the attractiveness of farming inspired […]
Cultivating Change in our Food System with Soil Sisters
“Social change doesn’t always have to be complicated or expensive.” – Lisa Kivirist Monday kicks off the first day of Women in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Week. On A Public Affair, Patty Peltekos spoke with Soil Sisters, a group of women who are cultivating change in our food system: Lisa Kivirist of the Inn Serendipity near […]
Dela Ends: Scotch Hill Farm and Activism
Dela and Tony Ends farm Scotch Hill Farm, a certified organic CSA farm near Broadhead, Wisc. Theirs is a charming ‘Charlotte Webb’ farm, the kind of small family farm in children’s books and produce advertisements. The two farm about 27 acres, 6 or 7 of those in veggies, the remainder in hay and grain to […]
Soil Sisters: A Celebration of Wisconsin Farms & Rural Life
On today’s show, July 25, 2016, Patty Peltekos hosts Lisa Kivirist, of Inn Serendipity Farm and B&B in Browntown; Kriss Marion, of Circle M Market Farm in Blanchardville; and Lauren Rudersdorf, of Raleigh’s Hillside Farm in Evansville. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Soil Sisters events in southern Wisconsin, which will take place […]
Pledge Drive: Soil Sisters and the empowering work of farming
On today’s edition of “A Public Affair,” Patty Peltekos talks Lisa Kivirist, farmer and author of the newly released Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers. Lisa Kivirist leads the Rural Women’s Project, a venture of the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), and a senior fellow in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute […]