Serendipity Farm bed and breakfast draws visitors to dairy farm
Suzanne Garrett runs a 50 year old stone cottage on Serendipity Farm by Kickapoo River as a bed and breakfast. The venture blends nostalgia with on farm life attracting guests from across the United States and abroad. Visitors learn farming, enjoy river scenes, and families reconnect during a three day stay. The Garrets farm on the West Fork since 1978, raising corn hay and tobacco with livestock. Guests help with chores and explore woodlands trails, hiking, biking, fishing and local sights including Amish country.
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Cottage stay reflects farm crisis and renewed guest interest
Mrs. Garrett runs Serendipity Farm offering cottage lodging and home baked goods while observing dairy policy shifts and a shrinking local market for traditional dairy products. Guests from across the globe stay in the river valley farmstead, drawn by nostalgia and personal ties to farming in Dunn County.
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Open meeting law teleconference on land use slated
University of Wisconsin Extension offers a teleconference series on land use planning and zoning via the Educational Teleconference Network. Registrations due Oct 22 for the Buffalo County Extension Homemakers fall council on Oct 28. The 7 p.m. meeting and banquet will be at Montana Methodist Church featuring Chere Bork of the Dairy Council of Wisconsin speaking on Osteoporosis and You. The series, led by attorney Doug Yanggen, targets local government officials and covers open meeting and public records law plus subdivision plats regulation. Sessions include audience Q and A. contact county Extension offices for details. Class is free but registration required.
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