Field Notes from the Garden
Welcome to the garden! Here you’ll find updates on what we’re working on, stories from the field, educational notes, and recipes to give you ideas of how to incorporate your harvest into every meal.
The Anishinaabe Traditional Farming Demonstration Project Seed Potato Trial
In the spring of 2023 the MICG partnered with the Middle Road Farm in their Seed Potato trial, funded as a part of a Minnesota/Wisconsin SARE Demonstration project resulting in hundreds of pounds of potatoes.
Produce Abounds!
Beth Dooley, James Beard Award winning food writer, opens her Madeline Island home kitchen to demonstrate easy pickling method.
Joy Schelble on Food Sovereignty and Empowerment
Listen to Joy share with the community garden what the Bad River Tribe of Lake Superior Tribe Chippewa are doing to reclaim ancestral foodways, empower people with knowledge of what it takes to feed ourselves and our community, and the role food can play in healing and social change.
Garden Recipe: Beth Dooley’s Basic Vinaigrette
This recipe is so simple it hardly feels like a recipe, but that’s the point, right? A vinaigrette that makes excellent use of any herbs that are coming in at the garden!