A talk I gave at this spring’s PBS Garden Expo was recently broadcast on PBS Wisconsin. If you missed it, you can check it out here: If the video isn’t working, follow this link: https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/university-place/home-scale-grain-production-69pgn1/
The Wisconsin Garden Expo is back on this year, February 10–12 — we’ll be there and so can you! Every year this event draws thousands from the southern Wisconsin area to see presentations, demonstrations, and vendors all focused on gardening. We’ll be there this year, but you can see 2021’s presentations (on potatoes, Foodmageddon, and … More Volunteer with Us and Visit the WI Garden Expo for Free
The most common New Year’s resolutions will not surprise you: exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight, save money, spend more time with family, and friends, reduce stress, spend less time on social media, and save on living expenses, according to a late 2022 survey. These seem pedestrian and slightly repetitive: they either focus on living … More Low-Tech Resolutions: 5 Small Changes
“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” The United Nations’ Secretary General, António Guterres, stated this at the COP 27 conference in Egypt. The digging and drilling of fossil fuels must stop and we must use renewable and nature-based solutions. The Low Technology Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit … More Did You Miss #GivingTuesday? How about #ProcrastinatorsWednesday?: Help a Different Type of Sustainability Nonprofit
We occasionally hold free member events. This Sunday, September 25, we’ll be picking and pressing apples! The 100-tree orchard we manage is heavily burdened this year! Attendees should bring themelves, some brown paper sacks or reusable shopping bags (or whatever!), and jugs, and at the end of the day, you can take home your fill … More Apple Picking and Cider Pressing, Sep. 25– Fall Member Event
We’re celebrating the 180th anniversary of the founding of Cooksville today. The afternoon starts at 3:00 p.m. at the community center on the east side of the commons (11204 N Church St Evansville, WI 53536). We’ll have short presentations from local organizations, followed by an open house at the Lutheran Church, LTI, the Historic Cooksville … More Join us for an Open House Today — Cooksville’s 180th Birthday
This year’s PBS Wisconsin Garden & Landscape Expo is going virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We are usually at this well-attended event in person, but this year we’re also making a virtual appearance. This is a great opportunity for those of you who are too far away to visit in person, as attending … More “Attend” the Garden Expo Virtually and See Us There (for Free) — Feb. 20–21
This year we harvested a tenth of an acre of modern red winter wheat from our neighbor’s field. I wrote up a few impressions soon after harvesting the wheat in a previous blog post, but here I hope to summarize more technical aspects of this process and suggestions for myself and others who hope to … More Lessons Learned in Small-Scale Wheat Harvest, Part I: Variety and Harvesting
Last week we brought you a livestream of our chicks hatching. Well, they’re back online for the day, and you can catch all the cuteness right here:
When we say “Low Tech” what we mean is the simplest means to achieve a task without fossil fuels. Over the next few weeks, as we’re sequestering ourselves here at the institute, we’ll be bringing you ideas for entertaining yourselves as well as updates on what we’re up to — luckily we can spend time … More Binge-able Low Tech Series