Fed Up Foods
Fed Up Foods is a new small food preservation business located in Stevens Point. Melissa Haack is the founder. I discovered Fed Up Foods as a new vendor at the Stevens Point Winter Farmer’s Market. I thought the name was…
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Learn about Cooperating for Woods and Wildlife Event
Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council is hosting this cooperative event. Learn about cooperative management of wildlife, invasive species, and forests through involvement in Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) landowner cooperatives! Guest speakers include Matt Esser, Wisconsin DNR deer…
Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 12 -15
Each February for 4 days people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count and celebrate birds. You are invited to get out and spend time in nature watching and counting as many birds as you can…
Clean Green Action is Growing Sustainability in Wood County
Clean Green Action is a Wisconsin Rapids grassroots group dedicated to creating a sustainable community through education, recycling and conservation efforts in greater south Wood County. I was introduced to Clean Green Action by Jane Haasch, one of our collaborators…
You Never Know Where Your Art Will Go – The Delight of Making
“When you are a maker of things, when you create things — art or clothes or whatever you make — you never know where they’re going to go. And the fact that these mittens were made with the sewing machine…
There is Always Light if only We are Brave Enough to Be It
If we merge mercy with might and might with right then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright. Amanda Gorman Common Roots Rising is nurturing the seeds of love and shining a light on the beauty growing all…
Rural Uprising Bakery – Baking with a Mission for the Common Good
Rural Uprising Bakery is a local bakery specializing in sourdough breads and torillas made from locally milled organic grains. Cole Madden is the founder and baker. I’ve been a fan of Cole’s bakery ever since we discover him at the…
Sauntering in Nature
Hiking – “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages…
Inspiring Land Stewardship at Oz Natural Area
Our environmental education efforts at the Oz Natural Area began when our oldest daughter, Hannah, was two and we purchased this property and made it the first site of Waupaca’s River Ridge Trail. We began by hosting small groups of…
Collaborators Wanted
Common Roots Rising is preparing the ground, planting seeds and growing a movement. We are imagining new ways of working together, combining skills and networking toward greater cooperation and mutual support. Common Roots Rising is incubating co-creativity, connecting potential and…