by Mary Burns | Oct 23, 2023 | Magazine Article
Mary Burns’ weavings celebrate and honor water and the women who work with it and advocate for it. She began this project in 2016, inspired by Indigenous water protectors and the awareness that water is often closely tied to women’s roles in traditional cultures. Over...
by Sarah E. White | Oct 23, 2023 | Magazine Article
Art and agriculture aren’t usually thought of together. Typically, they’re seen as separate as the urban and rural environments with which they’re often associated. But art and agriculture each produce fruit that sustains and enriches community. And a project begun in...
by Bill Berry | Oct 23, 2023 | Magazine Article
This is a story about Wisconsin’s Champion Trees Program, its rich history and encouraging revival. But first, some wisdom from a great ecologist and conservationist. When Aldo Leopold was fashioning his land ethic, in which he posited that people are members of a...
by Rudy Molinek, Catie DeMets | Oct 23, 2023 | Magazine Article
Imagine you’re nineteen years old again. It’s a crisp fall afternoon, and you’re looking out the window of a cramped college fleet van. You’re watching the mini malls of Wisconsin’s Fox Valley evaporate into farm fields. It’s the first field trip of the year in your...
by Kristine Hansen | Oct 23, 2023 | Magazine Article
Jessica Ross, a conservation biologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, knew nothing about mushroom foraging before moving to Wisconsin. But trekking through forests in search of fungi was already in her DNA. “I have family members going back...
