Julian Emerson grew up in the woods of rural Trempealeau County and now lives in the Chippewa Valley. He is a freelance Rural Voices correspondent for Wisconsin Farmers Union.
When national best-selling author and farm kid-turned-adult Michael Perry wrote his latest book, “Forty Acres Deep” about a farmer’s struggles with mental health, he worried the heavy topic might surprise and deter some of his readers, who are used to the homespun humor of his previous works. “I knew this would be different than a […]
For years I had heard from my friends familiar with agriculture in the U.S. about the many benefits of eating food grown locally or regionally, and about the importance of supporting the people growing and raising those products. As I listened to them and learned more about the local food movement, bit by bit what […]
