Around the Farm Table

Join Inga for a tour of her dairy farm in western Wisconsin as she takes us from the pastures to the milking barn, and into the new creamery where she shows us how she makes her clothbound farmstead cheddar cheese. Along the way she and her father talk about their lives as dairy farmers and cheesemakers before taking a trip to the Eau Claire farmers market.

Inga travels to the small community of Prairie Farm, Wisconsin to visit three unique farms. Along the way she learns about the importance of buying locally-grown flowers, preserving a rare breed of goat, and how a married couple developed America’s first organic pumpkin seed oil. She prepares a meal of corn chowder to share with her new friends.

Inga travels across Wisconsin to learn all about Kernza, a new perennial grain being used in brewing, baking and as a forage crop for livestock. Along the way she visits a brewery using Kernza to make beer, tries a loaf of bread made from Kernza grain, and learns about the grain's environmental benefits from a university professor.

Inga Witscher visits with members of a grassroots network of women farmers in southwestern Wisconsin called the Soil Sisters. She learns about habitat restoration from a woman who restores native prairie, visits with a farmer who is raising a heritage breed of pigs on pasture, and discusses the Soil Sisters group with one of its founders.