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Life of a Dairy Farm Worker

Raul Garcia Miranda shares his story of coming to the United States and working on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His love of working on a farm and caring for cows brings him to want to continue working at a dairy ...
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Harvesting Wild Rice

Harvesting manoomin, "the food that grows on water," has a long harvesting process concentrated on heavy labor. This is a short guide on how wild rice is harvested in the Bad River Band reservation in northern ...
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Growing In Number

Meet three Wisconsin women changing the face of agriculture, combating gender stereotypes and creating lasting bonds with one another. Picture a farmer. What do you see? A young man with dirt on his hands a...
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You Can Eat THAT?

Foraging food is gathering food, such as plants, fungi or animals, from locations where they are not deliberately grown. Many foragers consider the harvest from landscaping or street trees to be foraging, in th...
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Out of Season

After visitors leave northwestern Wisconsin vacation destinations, year-round residents embrace natural beauty while facing economic challenge. On a map, northern Wisconsin looks like it has been splattered wi...
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Brewing Like It’s 1852

Potosi tries to forge a sustainable path back to the glory days of Wisconsin brewing. Sustainability wasn’t a buzzword for Potosi Brewery when it opened more than 200 years ago in Potosi, Wisconsin. “Reduc...
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Wetland Tradition

Members of the Bad River Band fear threats to sacred wild rice harvesting as new mining begins in Northern Wisconsin. The slender canoe slowly snakes through the water of the Kakagon Bad River Sloughs, just of...
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Unexpectedly Next Door

Wisconsin’s lax permitting requirements for wild and exotic animals could enable tigers, kangaroos or zebras as unnatural neighbors. “What’s up, handsome tiger?” Andy Carlson coos as he hops over the e...