Author Talk: Dick Cates

Join us as we celebrate Dick Cates' Book, "A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land." 

Book Synopsis: Presented here is the remarkable journey of the Cates Family Farm and the people  who have learned through the lessons of experience to live in harmony with their landscape and  in gratitude for the gifts it brings. Through three generations (and with young great-grandchildren, a rising fourth), family members have transitioned from seeing themselves simply as “owners” of a farm to instead becoming caretakers of the  land and water where they live and work. They have moved from a commodity-oriented mindset to an  understanding that the pastures, fields, streams, forests, and the many species, both domestic and wild,  that inhabit this landscape are, in reality, a community, not simply a commodity.