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Dave Stecher and Katy Nally took us on a tour of their Hill Farms property and discussed the changes they’ve made and plan to make. As with most in this neighborhood, Dave and Katy bring impressive skill-sets.nnDave is a mechanical engineer by training and profession, a committed environmentalist, and a capable DIYer, thus bringing a

Hill Farms beekeeper Chris Pierce introduced us to his hives and helped us to understand what it means to be a honeybee colony and what it means to know and care for them.nnI used to think of hives as worthwhile things that I should keep at a respectful distance. Beyond that I knew next to

Sustainable Hill Farms Members took a field trip to a permaculture demonstration food forest on the northeast side of Madison.  The talk and tour as led by Susan Hessel, program manager of Madison PermacultureWorks/Madison Permaculture Guild.  The relatively small piece of land was carefully laid out according to soil type, sunlight, and plant relationships (guilds). 

We held our second meeting, this time focusing on rain gardens.  We received good, practicable information, and just as importantly, we are beginning to get a real sense of ourselves as a group that is gaining cohesion and momentum.nn nnThe presenter was Gail Epping Overholt, Hill Farmer and natural resources educator at UW-Extension in Milwaukee and

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Dearest gentle reader, I bring you news and, yes, a bit of scandal. It is not a grand ball that will illicit this season’s gasps and whispers of intrigue. No, the talk of the town will be a gathering of gardeners. This group dares to plant at a time when the ground lay frozen and

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