Water-food collaboration grows

Jim Massey For Agri-View
Apr 1, 2024
Apr 1, 2024

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Nadia Alber, left, and daughter Beatrix cuddle with a lamb at their farm, Ducks in a Row. Tours of the farm are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. April 20.

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Matt Snow of BrewHaHa Roasters will lead tours through the company’s coffee-bean-roasting process during the Savor the River Valley Farm and Food Tour.

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Heidi and Julian Zepeda will host a rare open-to-the-public day April 20 at their Tortilleria in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, where they’ll be making and selling empanadas and tortillas.

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The Cates Family Farm is the site of water-quality monitoring on Lowery Creek, a Class 1 trout stream. Dick Cates, center, and his son, Eric Cates, will offer self-guided tours of their farm April 20.

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Lowery Creek is home to the somewhat-rare heritage brook trout. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources harvests fish from the stream to aid stocking programs.

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Lowery Creek runs through the heart of the Lowery Creek Watershed.

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Jim Massey For Agri-View

SPRING GREEN, Wis. – Members of a pair of groups in the Spring Green area believe they have something special in their midst – and they want others to discover and appreciate it as much as they do.

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Jim Massey is a recently retired longtime agricultural journalist who lives on a farm near Barneveld, Wisconsin, that has been in his family since 1911.