The fields of October have arrived in Wisconsin; the Bromegrass rustles in the country-road ditch just a stone’s throw from my front door. Its seedhead, now void of flowering contents, nods easterly and points to the greying sky while announcing its senescence – like a jazz drummer using brushes on a snare drum. Its curled dry leaves add a hissing tonal element of their own while harmonizing with my bicycle tires on the gravel country road I frequent in central Wisconsin.
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Greg Galbraith owned and operated for 30 years a grazing-based dairy farm in central Wisconsin, until selling it to another couple who continues to operate an organic grass-based dairy. He’s an agrarian writer who’s involved in projects promoting the environmental and social benefits of an agricultural landscape dedicated to the functional permanent cover that managed pasture provides.
