Community Shares Backyard Hero: Ashley Idna
Community Shares Backyard Hero: Fox Coenen
Community Shares Backyard Hero: Steve Whayland
Common Ground with… Don Ferber
Training the people who make Wisconsin cheese unique
One of a kind meat training program brings people from across the country to Madison
Scratch cooking pilot program shows promise for the future of MMSD school lunches
A taste of France in the heart of Madison
Common Ground with… Joe Mazzara
Community Shares Backyard Hero: Ashley Idna
While taking time off work in 2019 to spend quality time with her young children, Lincoln and Maya, Ashley Idna began volunteering at their school
Community Shares Backyard Hero: Fox Coenen
Throughout high school, Fox Coenen led their school’s gay-straight alliance, which is how they discovered GSAFE, the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools. They said
Community Shares Backyard Hero: Steve Whayland
After Steve Whayland moved with his wife to Madison in 1995 to work in engineering and landscape architecture, it wasn’t long before he became interested
The Tower’s gift: Erin Gilbert’s ascension to Reiki
A seasoned Reiki practitioner with decades of experience, Erin Gilbert, 48, has touched the lives of hundreds of clients. At the same time, Reiki, a
Common Ground with… Don Ferber
A volunteer for the Sierra Club Four Lakes Group since 2003 and co-chair of the organization’s Wisconsin chapter since last year, Don Ferber is a
Training the people who make Wisconsin cheese unique
After spending several years making yogurt, Brad Harkins decided to try something new. But he was still interested in working in the food industry, and
One of a kind meat training program brings people from across the country to Madison
Despite the meat industry being one of the biggest industries in Wisconsin, the community of people who work in the meat business is relatively small.
Scratch cooking pilot program shows promise for the future of MMSD school lunches
On a Tuesday morning in a stainless-steel kitchen on Madison’s East Side, two women are plating just-out-of-the-oven honey ginger chicken and tofu, preparing noodles for
A taste of France in the heart of Madison
As morning breaks over North Frances Street, the kitchen of the French House gets filled with the clattering of pans and dishes, quickly drowning the
Common Ground with… Joe Mazzara
Joe Mazzara, 60, has spent his whole life in Madison. Joe owns Ken’s Meats & Deli, a kind of corner store on Monona Drive that
