Summary of September 2025 Honeybee Presentation 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. I used to think of hives as worthwhile things that I should keep at a respectful […]
May 10 2025 Permaculture Talk, Tour, and Plant Sale 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 […]
Summary of March 2025 Rain Garden Event Our group, which is now called "Sustainable Hill Farms", held it's 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. The […]
