Win a Gary Fisher “Monona” bike, a kayak from Rutabaga, a CSA share from Two Onion Farm, or one of TWENTY-THREE valuable prizes in The Natural Step Monona’s “All Things Monona” raffle! You can’t win if you don’t enter! Tickets are only $5 each, and the drawing is at 4:00 at the Monona Community Festival on July 4.

Continue reading Your last chance to enter and win is the 4th of July!...

Gorgeous weather, a good team effort in publicizing and staffing, and interesting green projects and exhibits helped create a well-attended and successful inaugural Green Monona Tour on Sunday, June 14.

Continue reading Sustainability Committee’s Green Monona Tour a Success...

By Doug Wood

Would you like to see a blower door test and an infrared camera in action, a composting toilet (Umm, not in action), regular composting, rain barrels, rain gardens, organic gardens, a solar lawn mower, Solatubes, permeable driveway pavers, not to mention a yurt? Would you like to turn green with envy? All right here in beautiful green Monona? For free?

Then you must take the Green Monona Tour!

Continue reading The Green Monona Tour...

On Saturday, May 30, the Community Landscape Project began its second phase. Members of The Natural Step Monona and other citizens of Monona took plants started in the seed starting class in March, added divisions of perennials and grasses donated by community members, mixed in plants purchased through a grant from the Dane County Environmental Council, and put the plants into the ground!

Continue reading The Community Landscape Project is visible!...

The previous blog/column, “A framework for a sustainable society,” spoke of the qualities and reasons for having the robust TNS framework, but it didn’t explain what it is. So, here we go! Let’s start learning the framework.

Continue reading So enough already! What is this framework?...

By Heather Gates

With too many people thinking The Natural Step was just a local community group, I crafted part one of a two-parter for The Herald-Independent. Here’s a brief overview of what The Natural Step is and can do.

Continue reading A framework for a sustainable society...

Too many butts, what happens to litter in Monona, and a recycling reminder.

Continue reading Earth Day and Waste...

Order now for May 10th distribution at the Monona Farmers’ Market! Only $45 each, these Earth Machine composters recycle yard waste and kitchen scraps into a valuable soil amendment.

Continue reading Compost Bin Sale...

By Natural Stepper Kate Heiber-Cobb

The plan for hands-on gardening education, involvement, and fun that also beautifies and improves our city spaces.

Continue reading Community Landscaping Project–RE-updated!...

By Penny DePaola

How to raise chickens in Wisconsin, from an experienced chicken keeper.

Continue reading Raising chickens in Wisconsin (Urban chickens, Pt. 2)...