5 Ways to Be a Farmers Market Pro

Chef Amy Huo’s Tips for a Successful Trip to the Market

Who doesn’t love the farmers market in the height of summer? Fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits harvested (much of the time) that very morning and friendly producers and farmers proud to talk ...

A Grant for Growth: Menomonie Co-Op Supports Local Ag Through New Grant

Menomonie Co-Op Supports Local Ag Through New Grant

Rachel Henderson was never much of an animal person. When she and her husband, Anton Ptak, first began integrating contracted cattle and hog grazing into their orchard operations at ...

Foodie Fests

Menomonie celebrates pickles and salsa

If you are one who loves perusing farmers markets, checking out unique artisan work, or doing any of the other satisfying activities that are possible when you wake up before noon on Saturday mornings ...

Celebrating Dairyland

a unique love of farming is deeply ingrained in wisconsin

‘Do you still milk?” I asked Jim at a recent gathering. “No,” he told me. “My son tells me the most help I can be is to stay out of the way,” he joked. We both agreed that was hard. Dairying gets in your blood ...

EGGciting Reading

egg book is perfect for readers with a surplus of eggs and a sense of humor

Egg lovers: rejoice, and egg layers: FLEE! Local yolkel Uncle Eggbert (alias: retired UW-Stout lecturer David Tank) has written a must-read cookbook for backyard chicken owners and protein enthusiasts in general. Uncle Eggbert’s Egg Book is a lighthearted collection of egg recipes ...

Dairy Diary

one woman's self-guided tour through some of the region's best dairy breakfasts in all their cheesy glory

Let me begin with a confession: I’m kind of obsessed with breakfast food. When McDonald’s announced plans to offer its breakfast menu all day, I was delighted. Breakfast, with its perfect balance ...

New Menomonie Farmers Market Pavilion Will Have Unique Timber Frame Design

When Inga Met Alice

Alice in Dairyland (and nine of her predecessors) gather around public TV's Farm Table

When Alice traveled through the looking glass, she discovered a land populated with talking flowers, living chess pieces, and Jabberwocks. When Inga traveled through a 21st century looking glass into her own TV program, she discovered an Alice ...

Planning for Preservation

safety steps can preserve the bountiful produce of Wisconsin's summer

Spaghetti sauce full of the flavor of garden-fresh tomatoes. Strawberry jam bursting with fruit at the peak of ripeness. With the proper equipment and up-do-date recipes, these and other family favorites can be safely canned at home. “Preserving food from your garden or orchard can be a good way to combat the rising prices ...

Double Your Freshness

new program helps needy families get more for their money at the downtown farmers market

Over the past decade, nothing has come to represent the rising tide of the local food movement in the Chippewa Valley than the Downtown Eau Claire Farmers Market. On Saturday mornings (and, to a lesser extent on Wednesdays and Thursdays), the pavilion at Phoenix Park is a bustling hive of activity, jam-packed with vendors ...