Animals Raised for Food in Cook County

Join hosts Diane Booth and Joan Farnam for a program on “Animals Raised for Food in Cook County.” The talk with Cook County folks who are raising cows, goats, chickens and pigs for both meat and milk. The farmers in the studio for this program included Andrea and Roger Westerlind, David Berglund and Lyndsay Anderson, Hana Senty, and Joel Lewis. They talked about their operation and discussed the challenges and joys they face being a farmer in Cook County.
Northern Gardening has been documenting food production along the North Shore of Lake Superior this fall and winter under a WTIP grant from the University of Minnesota Northeast Sustainable Development Partnership. Northern Gardening airs on the second Thursday of every month from 7-8p.m. and is hosted by the Northwoods Food Project and Cook County Extension. It is rebroadcast at 6 a.m. the following Saturday.