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The facility features the Dairy Café, with coffee and ice cream; The Kitchen, a farm-to-table restaurant; and a boutique hotel. Also within the building is a small butter plant, Paoli Brand Creamery Butter.

Erika Kubick, author of Cheese Sex Death, recommends the best cheese shops in the Midwest, with locations in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

These seven Wisconsin varieties are making it feel like were on the brink of a cheese renaissance.

Hear from 27 locals on what keeps their creative fires stoked — plus, get the inside scoop on strategies to beat back "the loneliness epidemic."

A conversation with a farmer inspired this entrepreneur to preserve an old dairy plant as a monument to the Wisconsin dairy industry.

Paoli, a tiny community southwest of Madison, may illuminate a new way forward for small farming towns everywhere.

Renewing the Countryside events celebrating food & farming, 8/5-7, Blanchardville, Brodhead, Monroe & New Glarus area, with farm tours, workshops, dinners. Some events free.

A review of the basics is always a good idea before setting out to roast the Thanksgiving turkey.