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Stephanie raises cattle, hogs and sheep on pasture and hosts terrific Burger Nights at Together Farms in May thru October Thursdays through Saturdays. Their motto is "We’re All In This Together.” They recently diversified into meal kits. COVID was a challenge. They have six campsites. They win a lot of food awards, and they were even featured on Wisconsin Foodie in 2018! https://togetherfarms.com/awards In their first year of farming, Stephanie and her husband Andy faced extreme weather problems. So they learned about permaculture—a type of farming that works with nature and creates a resilient farm that can withstand weather extremes much more gracefully. “Most Wisconsin farms are designed, for example, to get rid of excess water,” she explains. “Our farm is being set up to capture every drop of water we receive. Without water it doesn’t really matter what perfect balance of nutrients you have, so to us, on our sandy soils, water is our most precious resource, we would be fools to watch it go flowing off to the Mississippi.” While they work on capturing all of their water via networks of ponds, berms, and swales, they are also planting the perennial crops that want to grow on their land already—including wild hazelnuts, elderberries, mulberries, apples and plums. Rows and rows of this food forest could be harvested and sold to the public but until full-time farming becomes a reality, they can let the animals do the harvesting and not be reliant on outside feed sources. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.