Agri-View is starting the farmers-markets calendar earlier this year to include markets held in May and June. Email any corrections and new market information to agriview@madison.com with "farmers market" in the subject line. Include hours, days, address and contacts for more information. Op…
Wisconsin dairy breakfasts are being planned to celebrate June Dairy Month. Agri-View will publish a calendar weekly in print, as well as online, with updates as we receive them. Email agriview@madison.com with breakfast information including time and date, location with street address, what…
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions.
I planted pole beans this past year in pots below the front porch, in rich compost and potting soil with mulch to retain moisture in the dry times. Those beans sprouted very quickly. It took some persistence to train those searching tendrils to climb the porch railings. Often they would grab…
The last time I spoke to Ken was on the phone a few weeks before he died. He told me he was “winding down.” The emphysema he had battled for years, the result of a cigarette habit augmented during his service as a fighter pilot in the South Pacific in World War II, was about to bring him dow…
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Time will tell just who fell, and who’s been left behind – Bob Dylan
The changing of the seasons is affirmed with the arrival of our migrating avian friends. The actual snowbirds have come to tell us that spring is here.
There is a lot of appeal in having work that matters. Being able to see that something has been accomplished gives great satisfaction. Completing a task some thought impossible that gives great benefit to others is even better. For people who are independent and mission-oriented those elemen…
Wisconsin dairy breakfasts are being planned to celebrate June Dairy Month. Agri-View will publish a calendar weekly in print, as well as online, with updates as we receive them. Email agriview@madison.com with breakfast information including time and date, location with street address, what…
American meat and cold-cut producer Oscar Mayer has changed the name of its famous Wienermobile to the Frankmobile. The company, whose history in Madison, Wisconsin, spans 100 years, stated the change is reflective of a hot-dog recipe it will be releasing this summer.
Agri-View offers a schedule of events of special interest to our readers. Some events and activities might require advance registration. Email agriview@madison.com with calendar submissions.
Paul Simon, who wrote the Simon and Garfunkel hits “Sounds of Silence” and “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that appeared the day after the death of the great Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio. He told about writing another of the duo’s well-known h…
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I have a confession to make that will not shock longtime readers of this column – or anyone who knows me.
We hear about folks who are detached, bored and fearful. They believe government does things to them, not for them. But some of those folks have neighbors who are busy. Those neighbors are engaged in the community; boredom is a stranger to them. Some serve in elected public office. But many …
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. – The story of the town of Vaudreuil in Jackson County, Wisconsin, starts in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with a French-Canadian commercial fisherman named Edward Vaudreuil. He had a problem with crawfish tangling in his commercial fishing nets. Using his entrepreneurial sp…
In Proverbs 31 we find the description of a virtuous woman … well that’s how it’s translated most of the time. But the Hebrew word for virtuous is also the word used for valor.
From History.com – Celebrations of mothers can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, but the clearest modern precedent for Mother’s Day is an early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday.” Once a major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, it fell on the four…
Many, many years ago, in the early 1900s, there was a little girl who loved her mama with all her heart. At night when her mama tucked her into bed, she would throw her arms around her.
It’s May 3 as I pen this on another cold and rainy spring morning – one that’s good for writing. That’s fine because it’s time for another column piece and I’m searching my inner Steinbeck for a spring musing. It’s as though it’s nowhere to be found; perhaps it’s been banned.
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Modern life is fast-paced. People are busy; time slips away like vapor. Ten-thousand distractions keep us from noticing the common things that sustain life. Air, water and soil are taken for granted and yet we cannot live without them. Each is part of the equation from which life springs.
CASSVILLE, Wis. – Back about the turn of the century a woman was tending bar near Cassville. She was in a saloon on a street designed to look like it was in a little town in the 1800s. Nearby were barns, sheds and antique farm machinery.
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