Driftless Stories

Seed Starting: Get your plants growing like a pro By Kristine Jepsen • Photos courtesy River Root Farm It begins mid-winter, when the seed catalogs start…

Winter is a wonderful time to cozy in and think about making life better. So we’re excited to bring you the new Winter 2016-2017 Inspire(d) Magazine,…

Here at Inspire(d) we are big fans of print media (right?)! When we heard about 12 year old St. Ben’s student Jenna Hartz publishing her…

By Aryn Henning Nichols Music and family. These are the threads that tie Rosanne Cash’s life together. Not just because her father was the iconic…

John Beard If anyone can attest to the power of a single vote, it’s Decorah-based welder John Beard. Four years ago, Beard, who currently sits…

Chuck Gipp It makes sense that current Iowa DNR director Chuck Gipp thought he “knew a lot of people” when, in 1990, he declared his…

Alicia Leinberger The words – uttered on public radio the fall of 2015 – stopped Alicia Leinberger in her tracks. They also changed the trajectory…

How can I change the world? How many of us have ever pondered that question, only to become paralyzed by the next question that (almost) inevitably follows:…

Sarah Schroeder The debate was heated, and, as it turned out, not easily forgotten. “I felt that the admission prices being proposed for the town’s…

Fall is one of our most favorite times of the year – glorious weather, beautiful leaves, sweaters, hot chocolate, marching bands…we could go on and…

Introduction by Aryn Henning Nichols Interview by Inspire(d) Intern Martha Hall All art by Lauren Bonney As we’re heading out of summer and into fall (we…

Introduction and interview by Benji Nichols Originally published in the Summer 2016 Inspire(d) We’re proud to say we’ve been big fans of Seed Savers Exchange…