Posts tagged Driftless Region

Watercress:

Carpets of watercress cover many Wisconsin streams and springs in the spring. The tender green leaves are a bright and nutritious taste of the season if you know how and where to find it. Dani Lind and Erika Janik take us watercress hunting in the Driftless area.

Commentator Dani Lind is the co-owner of Rooted Spoon Culinary in Viroqua. She grows her own vegetables, fruits, and herbs on her Driftless area farm.

Driftless Fish Fry:

Today is Good Friday, and the last Lenten fish fry of the season. Commentator Krista Eastman remembers fish fry Fridays with her grandparents.

Krista Eastman is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Witness, and Hayden’s Ferry Review among others.

White Pine:

The smell of fresh-cut pine is all around at this time of year – at stands selling Christmas trees, and deep in the winter woods. Novelist David Rhodes has been thinking about the smell of white pine and the way scent and memory combine.

David Rhodes is the author of the award-winning novel, Driftless. He lives on 35 acres of land in the Driftless region.