October 2017 St. Croix Valley Magazine

In the October issue we're checking out Foodies on Foot, food tours that give a taste of the best in Stillwater.

Four years after she began sharing her art with Seasons on St. Croix Gallery in Hudson, Robbin Firth is getting the opportunity to share her methods more widely, thanks to her recently patented palm washboard tool.

 

Gemütlichkeit. That’s the German word that, roughly translated, means “a good feeling, a good time, a feeling of welcome and comfort,” says Kim Quade, owner-operator of Stillwater’s Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter.

 

Community Homestead is an Osceola, Wis.-based living and working community for people with disabilities that’s centered on an organic and sustainable farm. “They live in different houses on the farm, and they just work on the farm.

 

Adults, it’s time to take back Halloween. Sure, the holiday might seem to revolve around the kids, all decked out in costumes romping the streets in search of the year’s supply of candy, but why can’t moms and dads embrace All Hallows’ Eve, in all its culinary glory?

 

St. Croix-area micro-brew options are multiplying so quickly they filled a feature story in this magazine this past June. Now, two more breweries are pulling up a seat to the proverbial table.

Hop and Barrel Brewing, Hudson

 

For more than 100 years, a small grocery store has stood on the corner of Myrtle and Owens streets in Stillwater.

 

Summer is gone, but that doesn’t mean that family fun has to stop. Throughout the St. Croix Valley, there are plenty of indoor activities to keep the youngest members of your family active and engaged in the chilly months ahead.

 

Bad Larry’s Hard Coffee comes as quite the blessing to coffee lovers who aspire to fill their days with the caffeinated brew. Now your love of the buzz can continue from morning into night as you sip on this inventive mix.

 

Jill Foote and Donna Fjelstad, members of St. Croix Paranormal, are both passionate about ghost investigation. “I’ve had things around me all the time,” Fjelstad says. She started showing abilities at an early age.

 

You don’t need to travel to northern California or Tuscany for a food tour.