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We Are Not Farms – But Sometimes We Play Them On Tour

This month the original Willie Wisely Trio is doing four back-to-back dates in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Gig info is here. We start out with a gig at Skalski’s Farm in Northfield — the city in which many years ago I walked through a mirror, figuratively. It involves the heiress to the world’s largest distillery fortune, an acid party, either my …

Haven’t Seen “Food, Inc” – But I Imagine This Is What It Says

No Hay In Milltown. In Milltown (now an ironic name), a farmer/friend tells my wife and I that too many of her local colleagues have turned to planting corn because it’s a cash crop subsidized by government and big corporations. In a contrarian move, she decided to grow a lot of hay, and is now selling it at top dollar …