Field Day Potluck: Eco-Home Tour and Induction Cooking Demo at Prairie Ridge
Thu, Jul 16
|Prairie Ridge
This is an opportunity for women landowners, farmers, farm workers, gardeners, and conservation professionals to connect around their shared interest in land stewardship and learn from one another. Gather to tour a carbon-neutral home and see an induction cooking demonstration!
Time & Location
Jul 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Prairie Ridge, 8401 County Hwy A, Hollandale, WI 53544, USA
About the event
Join us on this unique tour of Prairie Ridge and the carbon-neutral rural home of Karen Kendrick-Hands and her husband Larry Hands. This is a new build, set on 80 acres of restored prairie and woods, that was purposely designed to be earth-nurturing and to complement the beautiful setting. Karen will also lead an induction cooking demonstration!
Through the course of the tour, Karen will share the practices they use to both manage house and land for carbon sequestration and climate healing. Learn about invasive control strategies, swales to manage extreme precipitation events, food forests, biochar, savanna restoration work, and working with agencies like USDA and conservation service providers. Karen will talk about her experience utilizing the Environmental Quality Incentives Program through the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Quercus Land Stewardship Services will lead a tour to discuss work they have done in the prairie and woods.
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