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Illustration by Laura Ovberg

My father eats braunschweiger sandwiches, thick ones he squeezes tight to hold together. He holds them with the hand that’s missing a finger.

NASA-affiliated researcher Richard Barker discusses his astrobotany experiments with the International Space Station.

Ken Seguine and Jay Gilbertson of Hay River Farm have been producing artisanal pumpkin seed oil since 2005.

Wisconsin farms are making artisanal cold-pressed oils for cooking and health.

Craig Blietz, Lupulus (detail)

Solo exhibitions by Craig Blietz (Sister Bay) and S.V. Medaris (Mount Horeb).

As a part of our "Drawdown in Wisconsin" Environmental Breakfast Series, Diane Mayerfeld of UW-Extension discusses regenerative agriculture.

Readers of Wisconsin People & Ideas need no elaborate introduction to writer/photographer/philosopher Richard Quinney, whose “Elegy for a Family Farm” was featured in the Winter 2018 issue.

The town of Warrens in Monroe County, where these cranberries are being harvested, is the epicenter of cranberry production in Wisconsin. Every year the town celebrates the fall harvest with the Warrens Cranberry Festival, the largest cranberry-related arts and crafts festival in the United States. Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association.

Everything you wanted to know and more about Wisconsin's state fruit: Vaccinium macrocarpon, better known as the large-fruited cranberry.

Richard Quinney at his family farm near Elkhorn, 2017. Photo by TJ Lambert/Stages Photography

For some people, there is only one story that carries them through an entire lifetime.

Michael Bell and Sarah Lloyd explore fair labor systems for an increasingly diverse farm workforce.

A Wisconsin Farmer’s Lesson on Resilience and Creative Troubleshooting

I spend a lot of time thinking about how climate change impacts Wisconsin. And that’s not just because it’s part of my job directing the Climate & Energy program at the Academy.

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