Food + Beverage

Grateful Newcomers

A Kenyan Coffee Shop and Azerbaijani Grill Settle into Middleton Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Provided Middleton is a community that chooses local. Residents shop, eat and gather close to home, and that steady support makes the city a place new businesses want to open. We're thankful for two new arrivals and those who have already made them feel at home. Coffee4All Priscah Norton’s story is one of resilience. She first opened Coffee4All in Stoughton in 2022 after...

Home + Design

Off the Grid, On the Mark

Discover the Disciplined Precision Behind Wisconsin’s Finest Off-Grid Woodworking Artisans Article and Photography by Jill Heilman Step out of the rushing modern world and into a space where time moves to the steady rhythm of a motor-driven heartbeat. In this secluded Wisconsin workshop, sunlight pours through clever skylights masquerading as traditional overhead fixtures. A murmured hum settles across the room as an intricate network of large metal movable arms springs to life. Tools are...

Life + Culture

Fuel Your Fall Flourish

Thoughts from Your Local Friend, Andrew Charles, for Finding Ways to Flourish this Fall Article by MCL x Andrew Charles | Photography by Provided Fall ushered in cooler weather, changing colors, and a decision: get ready for hibernation, or choose to flourish. Each of us has the power, much like the season we’ve been witnessing, to change our colors, recalibrate, adapt, and welcome in a new season of our lives. This list looks at four tenets I tend to lean into this time of year to find...

Home Services

Four Generations of Comfort

Devon Greiber is Thankful to Carry the Family Business Forward Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Ashley Hicks Media Co For Devon Greiber, legacy isn't just an idea. It's what he inherited and intends to keep. He's the fourth generation to run Greiber Heating and Sheet Metal and to him, honoring that means showing up daily and taking pride in your work, like the Greibers always have. The company was founded in 1945 when Leo Greiber returned from World War II and opened the...

Arts + Culture

Rarity, Clarity, Mastery

Step Inside an Education-Focused Gallery Where Finite Gemstones are Intentionally Hand-Forged into Timeless Functional Art Article by Jill Heilman | Photography by Jill Heilman; Provided Imagine the year 5026. An archaeologist carefully brushes soil from a heavy, asymmetrical gold ring. The geometric lines remain sharp. The tension holding a custom-cut, unheated Nigerian blue tourmaline is completely intact. Looking through a magnifying loupe, the evaluator comes to an undeniable conclusion...

Food + Beverage

Rooted Restaurants

Dining Where Ingredients Are Sourced Locally Helps Sustain Our Agricultural Community Article by Jill Heilman | Photography by Bobbi Peterson Photo & Provided The average American meal travels 1,500 miles before reaching your plate. Here in Wisconsin, we are surrounded by some of the richest agricultural land in the country. We're quite undeniably known for our farmlands, yet a shocking amount of food is shipped to mega-corp packaging facilities and sent out of the Midwest, while we buy West...

Local Services

Meals Matter

How a High School Food Drive in Middleton Grew into a Movement Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Provided by Meals Matter Meals Matter   Middleton has a reputation as a place of plenty, where food insecurity would presumably be low. Growing up here, Noah Duckett had no reason to think otherwise until high school, when he learned about the instability spread across his town. "Middleton is a good school district,” says Noah, “so hearing how many families in that same area...

Food + Beverage

From Pasture to Plate

A Meal Source You Can Trust: Local Farms Raising Exceptional Meat Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Tyler Ike; Provided The meat on your plate came from somewhere. For most of us, that's about as far as our awareness goes. But knowing how, where, and who raised it gives us something rarer than rare: a transparent connection to what we eat, nothing more.    Venterknoll Farms  |  Wagyu Beef This Southwest Wisconsin farm's 100% pure Wagyu descends from the original cattle...

Food + Beverage

Where Soil Meets Structure

Frank Lloyd Wright Envisioned a Homestead Sustained by its Surrounding Landscape; Riverview Terrace Cafe Carries that Agrarian Dream Forward Article by Jill Heilman | Photography by FLW Foundation Archive; Jill Heilman Perched along the winding curves of the Wisconsin River, a low-slung limestone structure sits embedded in the shoreline, looking less like a building dropped onto dirt and more like an outcrop pushed up by the earth itself. Designed in 1953 by Frank Lloyd Wright as a welcoming...

Life + Culture

Cultivating a Connected Food System

REAP Food Group is Building Resilient Localized Food Systems for the Benefit of All Article by Noah Bloedorn, REAP Executive Director | Photography by Provided Food brings us together, yet the systems behind it are overlooked. Decisions about our food and farm landscape touch nearly every corner of our community, from the school cafeteria to the water we drink. As we move into a season of key community choices, it’s worth understanding how our food systems work and why a thriving local network...