Richard Cates

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courtesy Little Creek Press

Richard Cates and a bovine friend.

Richard Cates

Wisconsin’s history since statehood is inextricably tied to family farms, but it’s a legacy that has been disappearing in recent years as small farms are swallowed up by large operations. The family farms that are enduring are having to find a new way forward to survive, and one path is to embrace a more nature-friendly use of the land. In A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey Toward a Land Ethic, author Richard Cates tells the story of his family’s Spring Green area home and how their farming practices have changed over the years. Cates will be signing the book and also discuss it at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

media release: Join area Farmer Richard Cates as he shares stories from his family farm experiences ‘growing’ memories, cattle, and a land ethic. Cates will discuss the family’s generational journey, drawing from her new memoir, “A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey toward a Land Ethic”. Just in time for Holiday gift giving, Cates will be signing copies of his book from 10 AM to 2 PM in the Willy St. Co-op West Community Room. At 10 AM and 1 PM, he will share stories about the challenges and successes of transitioning farm operations into restorative, regenerative, and perennialized agriculture and developing a more harmonious relationship to the land and all that lives there, past and present.