Michelle Cannon

Michelle Cannon says her vegetables are nutrient dense and full of flavor.

Matt Wanasek works 70 hours a week and with good reason. If he’s not at a summer farmers market he can be found at a winter one where he enjoys providing his customers with a quality food source year-round — and that's with mushrooms.

"Food is medicine," he said. "What better way to build your immune system and lower your cholesterol than by eating mushrooms."

Mushrooms

Matt Wanasek gives a talk on the importance of mushrooms to one’s everyday health.
Mushrooms

Matt Wanasek has been studying and identifying mushrooms for 10 years, and, at the same time, teaching himself the different classifications or taxonomies of mushrooms for 18 years while growing them for the past decade.
Mushrooms

Matt Wanasek of Matt’s Wild Foods, a gourmet mushroom store, holds one of the many types of mushrooms he sells.
Michelle Cannon

Michelle Cannon, owner and operator of LarryVille Gardens in Burlington, stands on a ladder while putting her greenhouse together for her winter growing season.
Michelle Cannon

LarryVille Gardens prides itself on its winter vegetables, which come out sweeter than those grown in the summer.
Michelle Cannon

Michelle Cannon of LarryVille Gardens has been growing produce for 16 years for summer markets and then began growing for the winter market at the 10-year mark with a greenhouse.
Mushrooms

Maitake mushroom, which are generally found in fall in large numbers if the conditions are just right.
Buzzy Bees Honey

Sam Pickens, who runs Buzzy Bees Honey in Waukesha, stands with his products at a farmers market.
Buzzy Bees Honey

Wearing his beekeeping apparel, Sam Pickens of Waukesha holds one of his beekeeping trays covered in honeycomb and honeybees.
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