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on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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55 ~ Trout: A love story (with apologies to Michael Perry)
As the alchemy of fall burnishes the Driftless hills to copper and gold, I’m getting back to writing more, to my own attempt at alchemy.
Annoucement: Fomenting a fermentation
Greetings all. Of late I’ve been doing more traveling and trout fishing than writing, and hope to be back in the groove soon. In the meantime, tapping in to let you know…
53 ~ Taoist predator control
Raccoons have been snooping around the hen coop of late, ransacking the chicken feed and making some attempts to dig under the wire of the pen…
51 ~ Food Not Bombs
I recently visited my daughter, Alonda, in Brooklyn, New York, where she moved about a year ago. She has a weekly gig there, to which I tagged along…
50 ~ Brancher
In the language of falconry, a “brancher” is a young, nearly full-grown hawk that is in transition…
49 ~ Searching for a morel in this story
This year the month of May has been a rough one for the gardens, both very dry and cold…
48 ~ Down syndrome
This is the season for down (just not in jackets). I am most pleased to relay that I first noticed some a couple of weeks ago on the eagle nest…
47 ~ Art history
A remarkable feature of the Wisconsin Driftless Area is Native American rock art, nearly all of which was created before European contact…
