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The Settlement Shops Farmers Market opened for their 9th season on June 13. The market runs from 10 am – 2 pm (or until sellout) each Wednesday through late October.

Crossroads at Big Creek will host a screening of A Chemical Reaction on June 19 at 7 pm. A Chemical Reaction is an award-winning documentary detailing the experience of a Canadian community in stopping the use of lawn chemicals.

Come to the front of your mat and stand in Mountain Pose (Tadasana): hands on hips, feet parallel, grounded, and hip width apart, a steady breath and focus.

The heartland of American beer once sourced its most important ingredients close to home. In the 1860s Wisconsin’s Sauk County produced 20 percent of America’s hops.

The Jacksonport Farmer’s Market opened earlier than originally planned on June 5. This is the fourth season of the Jacksonport Farmer’s Market, held every Tuesday at Lakeside Park from 9 am to 1 pm through October, as weather permits.

This exercise will massage your lower back and sacrum and help you increase the mobility of your hips. Lie on your back and draw your knees towards your belly.

Gibraltar Nutrition Specialist Carla Marr has always considered herself ahead of the curve when it comes to taking steps towards healthier school lunches.

Twenty-two high schools from across Northeastern Wisconsin competed in the 16th annual Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) Solar Olympics. Solar Olympics, sponsored by WPS Community Foundation and hosted at University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, challenged competitors to demonstrate various skills with projects involving solar power from designing, constructing and demonstrating a solar cooker, a solar water heater to racing a solar-powered model car.

The Settlement Shops annual early Farm Market Plant Sale will be held on May 26 from 10 am – 2 pm. Locally-grown potted perennials, annuals, vegetable and herbs will be for sale from vendors.

Over 20 vendors are participating in the Jacksonport Farmer’s Market for the 2012 season. There will be a wonderful variety again this season with many of the “regulars” returning along with new participants.

Business owners and citizens are banding together and contributing new bicycles to the “Ride Free” campaign in Ellison Bay. This program allows people to ride to a destination in Northern Door to shop, buy groceries, pick up lunch or dinner and go to one of the many parks for a picnic at sunset.

On arriving back from my second trip to Asia, I decided it was time to try experimenting with curry in the home kitchen. With a little more time to spend recipe hunting and cooking before the season kicks into gear, I came up with these two recipes for different kinds of curry.

• 16 pounds of wheat and up to 2,500 gallons of water are necessary to produce one pound of grain-fed beef. • About 260 million acres of forests in the U.

Applications for space at the 2012 Sister Bay Historical Society’s Farm Market are now available. Offerings are limited to produce and farm-related products.

The Settlement Shops annual early Farm Market Plant Sale will be held on May 26 from 10 am – 2 pm. Locally-grown potted perennials, annuals, vegetable and herbs will be for sale from vendors.

The Door County Master Gardeners sale will feature plants for all garden beds –vegetables and flowers, annuals and perennials, plants for sun and shade, tall and short plants May 26 from 9 am – noon at the Peninsular Agricultural Research Station.

For several months, the former site of the Sandpiper Restaurant in Baileys Harbor has been filled with activity connected with the removal of the existing buildings, getting the materials ready to be re-used or recycled and making way for a new interpretive center for The Ridges Sanctuary.

The Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor just completed phase one of their mattress replacement plan, which included replacing 300 mattresses, and Rachel Santy, Landmark Resort’s Executive Housekeeper, took charge of the disbursement of the gently-used mattresses, keeping them out of landfills.

Editor’s Note: Following the suggestions of Rob Hopkins in his book The Transition Handbook, a Sustain Door study group wrote a series of “newspaper reports” on sustainable practices set in the future.