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Gardening in February in Wisconsin?
( This post is from a newspaper column I wrote in 2015) Last Friday we went to the Wisconsin Public Television Garden Expo in Madison. It was a much needed journey into the realm of green things, and the possibility that perhaps winter will someday end. If you haven’t ever been there, I recommend it. In addition to lots of exhibits by people who would like to help you and/or sell you something to make your home and garden nicer, there are tons of workshops on gardening, composting, landscaping, preserving foods, and all sorts of related topics. This year I went specifically to see a fellow talk about back yard maple syrup production. He wasn’t a botanist or anything, but just a regular guy who has way more energy and initiative than I do, and who wanted to make maple syrup from two silver maple trees in his back yard. My father-in-law, who passed away last June, had been making maple syrup for a number of years. In fact, though he was very sick and weak last spring, so