Summer 2013

Bike the Barns Rides West

On June 30, FairShare CSA Coalition’s popular Bike the Barns fundraiser ride heads west to explore the CSA farms and delicious foods of the Driftless Region. The 52-mile ride will

Cooking Fresh with Kohlrabi

Certainly not an iconic, popular or even recognized American vegetable, kohlrabi has always been more of a home gardener’s secret darling.

Hmong Summer

Can a cuisine match a season? It can in Wisconsin, where we have a rich mix of ethnicity and climate, and thus many great pairings for any season. To me,

In the Kitchen with Ale Asylum

We sit down for a Q&A with Chad Kersey, food director for Ale Asylum. You might just call him the “beer-chef.”

Porchlight Products is Getting Dehydrated

No, they don’t need a drink of water. Earlier this year, an anonymous donor generously gifted $25,000 to Porchlight Products to start-up Dane County’s first commercial food dehydration operation. The

Publisher’s Letter: Summer 2013

It’s a little hard to believe that we’re on the cusp of summer when it’s difficult to say for sure that we even had a spring! But here we are,

Sunflowers

One farm goes full circle with one big edible, fuel-driven idea.

“What Do I Do With That?”

Have you ever avoided a food at the farmers market because you didn’t know what to do with it? Does that obscure veggie give you puppy-dog eyes all week until