Wisconsin Idea Seminar: Tuesday, May 22
May 23, 2007
The group got off to an early start with a tour of the Bemis Company’s Oshkosh facility, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible packaging.
Heading north, the group visited the Oneida Nation, where they took a guided bus tour past the casino, hotel, buffalo farm, and some fraction of the tribe’s 6,000 acres of cropland.
The final stop of the day was Seaquist Orchards, a family cherry growing and processing business located near Sister Bay in Door County. Five generations of the Seaquist family have owned and operated the orchard.
A fish boil at Viking Restaurant in Ellison Bay brought the day to a tasty conclusion.
First-person impressions
Erica Halverson
Assistant professor of educational psychology
On: Tour of the Bemis Company, Oshkosh
“The thing to me that was the most interesting is how much it made me think about the process of processing … The size-to-efficiency ratio (of the technology) was really amazing to me. They have these huge machines that produce these incredibly thin layers of plastic.”
Listen to Halverson’s comments (2.9 Mb mp3; 3 min., 7 sec.)
David Bart
Assistant professor of landscape architecture
On: Trip to Seaquist Cherry Orchard
Bart noted that many of the experimental varieties at the orchard were being developed at universities outside of Wisconsin. “I think the message is very clear exactly what we could be doing more of in this area (in terms of research).”
Listen to Bart’s comments (2.1 Mb mp3; 2 min., 19 sec.)
See also:
Day 1: The Aldo Leopold Shack and property, along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo