Around the Farm Table

Wisconsin author Nickolas Butler is invited to Inga’s book club lunch. Inga visits a mushroom farm and picks up veggies at a biodynamic farm, then cooks shiitake soup and crispy socca flatbread with pesto and arugula for her guests.

Inga discovers the importance of dung beetles on her farm. She visits a potato farm and learns about growing sorghum for whiskey. For an afternoon party, Inga and chef Nathan Berg make some unique Wisconsin craft cocktails and lefse hors d’oeuvres.

Inga takes a mini-vacation. After visiting a robotic dairy farm, she meets up with her cousin CeCe on Washington Island. Amidst a lavender field, they cook the catch of the day and make a panna cotta dessert.

Inga visits the historic Hoard’s Dairyman farm and the UW Research Station, where she helps milk some sheep. Then Inga bakes some desserts for the Alice in Dairyland reunion.

Paul Bunyan never ate so good. Inga visits her neighbors’ Hereford beef ranch and also learns about logging a forest using horses, then makes a hearty, beefy Logger Pie and Irish soda bread for the logging crew.

Cheers to the Soil Sisters! Inga celebrates women in agriculture with Door County whitefish caviar and a toast of Wisconsin bubbly.

Inga goes back to school: a children's garden at an Eau Claire elementary school. She makes blueberry yogurt popsicles and tasty carrot sorbet – that's one way to get kids to eat their veggies!

Inga walks down the aisle – actually, the hayloft stairs – and says her “I do's” in her barn between milkings. She picks up a sustainably grown bouquet in East Troy, then learns about growing hickory nuts in Wisconsin. She bakes a hickory nut wedding cake with cream cheese frosting.