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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Jun 28, 2025
Jun 28, 2025

Woodchuck — A woodchuck visits a raccoon caught in a cage trap on Chris Hardie’s farm.
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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

Summer has arrived. The garden is growing, the birds are singing and the woodchuck is chucking.

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, live on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he is a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. His book “Back Home: Country Tales by the Seasons” is available through Amazon.