Ice Harvesters Keep A 19th-Century Tradition Alive, One Block At A Time
In 1911, the Milwaukee-area manufacturer Alonzo Pauling gathered $75,000 in capital and founded the Pewaukee Lake Ice Company with his ...
Frozen Assets
It was a crop that required no seeds. No one had to turn over a single furrow of earth or ...
Harvesting History
Fall is harvest time in Wisconsin. It’s a time of year that reminds historian John Gurda of his own family ...
Memories Of A Migrant Laborer
Antonio Saldana began working in the fields with his family as a migrant worker when he was four years old. ...
Biologist Devotes Life To Wild Rice
Peter David knew little about wild rice when he began his job as a biologist for the Great Lakes Indian ...
Cranberry Love
Each fall, the nation’s biggest cranberry crop is harvested from Wisconsin marshes. And floods of travelers turn up to celebrate ...
Rice Harvest
Wild rice isn’t actually a rice at all. It’s an aquatic grass that has been an important food for native ...
Gays Mills Apple Fest
Five years after devastating floods washed through the small town of Gays Mills, the community continues to come together to ...
Foraging for Berries
While many of us think of summer as berry-picking time, in the fall, Wisconsins woods and prairies burst with native ...
Poisonous Plants
Farmer’s markets are full of summer produce right now, but so are the state’s wild woods and streams. From milkweed ...