#wisconsin
Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.
After 8 years of homesteading in Alaska (arriving just as the Homestead Act was expiring) where they had been forced by low-paying jobs to discover “which trees, shrubs, bushes, and vines we could get food from”, they arrived in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin ready to apply their knowledge of permaculture (“permanent agriculture”).
Over the past nearly three decades, Mark has planted an estimated 250,000 trees on the 106-acre farm. The main agroforestry crops are chestnuts, hazelnuts, and apples, followed by walnut, hickory, cherry, and pine (for the nuts). For short-term income, the couple planted annual crops, like grains and asparagus, in alleys between the fruit-and-nut-bearing trees. Cattle, pigs, lambs, turkeys, and chickens act as pest control and free composters as they roam the savannas of the farm.
Not content to rely on commercially-produced seeds, Mark does his own breeding to find the best-adapted trees to his region using the method he’s dubbed STUN (Sheer Total Utter Neglect). He plants trees at a higher density than recommended and with as much diversity as possible (at one point they were farming 219 varieties of apples) and then lets pests and disease run their course. He fells diseased trees or those that don’t bear enough, or early enough, fruit. The result is orchards hardy enough to survive even Chestnut Blight.
As more and more of the alley crops have been replaced with trees and pocket ponds to help manage water on the farm, the land here has returned to the native savannas where the mastodon once grazed 12,000 years ago (in 1898 bones were discovered 5 miles down the road).
New Forest Farm has inspired many other perennial farms, especially chestnut farmers in the region, and Mark hopes that every schoolchild will plant their own apple seeds (and perhaps subject them to STUN) and that every family can plant a backyard food forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPP4Ilpxso
#Agriculture #USA #Wisconsin #Forest #trees #edible #chestnut #food #ecology
US-Zwischenwahlen: Das Werben um schwarze Wähler | DW | 06.11.2022
In den USA stehen die Zwischenwahlen vor der Tür und in hart umkämpften Bundesstaaten zählt jede Stimme. In Wisconsin umwerben Demokraten und Republikaner schwarze Wähler. Sie könnten den Ausgang der Wahl entscheiden.#USA #Zwischenwahlen #Wisconsin #Milwaukee #Schwarze #schwarzeWähler #Demokraten #Republikaner
US-Zwischenwahlen: Das Werben um schwarze Wähler | DW | 06.11.2022
Shouldn't it be illegal for someone whose stated goal is to overturn American democracy to even run for office?
'Two historic confessions about the Trumpian madness that consumes millions' were made today: O'Donnell
FTA: O'Donnell played a clip of GOP nominee for governor Tim Michels vowing, "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor."
The host noted Michels did not know he was being recorded when he made the comments at a campaign event.
Made it home safe and sound after a work-related trip to #Cincinnati, a visit to southern #Michigan to visit family, and a return flight that was interrupted by a potty break in #Wisconsin. Nearly ten hours of flying, mostly #VFR but one #IFR departure with an amended clearance, one blaring stall horn due to a bug in the switch, one attempt to locate a non-communicating Cirrus pilot, and one parallel landing with a 737.
KMIC - KLUK - KOEB - KEFT - KMIC
● NEWS ● #TheNation #Wisconsin ☞ “Ron Johnson Doesn’t Give a Sh*t About Wisconsin Workers” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ron-johnson-workers/
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ 'Time for Him to Go': #RonJohnson Says He Won't Fight for #Wisconsin Jobs https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/07/time-him-go-ron-johnson-says-he-wont-fight-wisconsin-jobs
● NEWS ● #RollingStone #insurrection ☞ #Wisconsin Is Ground Zero for the MAGA Effort to Steal the Next Election https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-wisconsin-eastman-election-decertification-1295191/
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Wisconsin ☞ Wisconsin Judge Rules Ballot Drop Boxes Unlawful https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/14/wisconsin-judge-rules-ballot-drop-boxes-unlawful
New California law creates opportunities to waste less food
https://www.ktnv.com/news/national/new-california-law-creates-opportunities-to-waste-less-food
' #California isn’t the only state #working to #curb #food #waste. #Connecticut, #Massachusetts, #NewYork, #RhodeIsland and #Vermont have all passed #laws. States like #Tennessee, #Washington and #Wisconsin have created #task-forces.'
#sandiego #us #donations #rescue-organizations #food-banks #zero-waste #zero-hunger #environment
● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Wisconsin ☞ Wisconsin Republican Vote Fraud https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/wisconsin-republican-vote-fraud/
We had quite the night in Wisconsin last night as the warm front hit the cold front: severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, damaging winds and power outages for 75,000 people
I was one of the power outages. I was thinking of the food in my refrigerator until it got cold in my place and I remembered the furnace. Many, many layers of blankets last night.
This is majorly weird for Wisconsin. 😳😳😳
Nonetheless we shall soldier on with "fixes" to all those "problems" with "fraud" from 2020!
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1468622232599638016?t=TC9H_N_oVqr42_mZKNikwA&s=19
#wisconsin #voter #fraud
● NEWS ● #AmericanOversight ☞ American Oversight Files Motion to Hold Speaker Vos in Contempt for Failure to Comply with #Wisconsin Public Records Law https://www.americanoversight.org/american-oversight-files-motion-to-hold-speaker-vos-in-contempt-for-failure-to-comply-with-wisconsin-public-records-law
The Basilica of St. Josephat in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a marvel
It was built with salvaged materials and the pennies and work of the parishioners. Many parishioners mortgaged their homes to pay for construction.
It shows the value of what immigrants can contribute. And the church is amazing.
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/josaphatfacts
#stjosephats #wisconsin
