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Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come

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Also maybe relevant:

@ggm's facetious but insightful explanation of why pizza was invented in Russia and not Chicago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053948

no-one who knew anything ever thought that pizza was invented in Chicago

Reminds me of this famous rant on deep dish pizza

https://youtu.be/jCgYMFtxUUw?si=LHRGYNptgJMzg3Qq

We were just at one of these near Beloit. A family member’s band had a small gig. They sell about 100 pizzas on weekends they’ve booked a band. During weekdays, they have limited hours for their store (produce, etc.), and occasionally have breakfast hours. It’s a real farm, but the acreage is small so they also have day jobs.

It didn’t occur to me that it might be a Wisconsin thing and I still suspect these exist everywhere, because the trend seems more about it being easy to buy and install wood-fired pizza ovens, to make and market new Pinterest-ish outdoor event venues, and to work remote jobs that support hobby farming.

Definitely exist other places. E.g. here’s one in Maryland I frequently hear about: https://calleva.org/farm/calleva-pizza-nights/

I remember a friend who lived in minnesota, but his family had "a hobby farm in wisconsin". Is hobby farming something special wrt wisconsin, does the state give hobby farms some sort of financial advantage, or does wisconsin just have a lot of farmland?

I don’t know about government incentives, but it does have tons of farmland and a culture of pride in WI dairy and agriculture. Parts of southern WI do a lot of tourist business for the Chicago area, and a break from urban life is part of that appeal.

Enjoyed this in upstate New York years ago. Apple orchard started serving pizzas in addition to hard apple cider. The pizzas are great—better than they should be. Now the pizza is the destination. Great concept.

This is region-locked to the US.

Probably just not available in the EU because they would violate privacy regulations.

Not sure why a US only company would try to comply or do anything; the eu cannot force or fine them so why not just leave the site open?

If the site serves ads in the EU, then by definition they are doing business there and are finable.

Ok in JP.

Finally, the alliance pays off.

Loaded for me, but I got a paywall at first... worked fine in an incognito tab.

This is appealing in that it rips us away from our modern "connected but alone" vices. We should all be making an effort more often to connect over pizza - or whatever.

Ron Swanson's pizza farm - https://youtu.be/0weSjPKi4cs?si=UYcnv3h84_LN4AQP

(Related Funny Or Die video)

They grow Pineapple’s in Wisconsin?

Apologies for the errant apostrophe.

I know it's a very arty way of writing, but could it not get to the point? What is a pizza farm?

Its in the first few paragraph, did you even read it? Also sort of obviously its a farm that sells pizza.

I refer you to the hn guidelines, 'did you even read it' is considered off limits.

Yes it is obviously a farm that sells pizza, but doesn't that begin to pose follow up questions for you? It is a pretty incongruous scene. Farms rear animals, grow crops and generally trade wholesale. They are also pretty remote.

Small farms rarely do much action wholesale, because they can make a lot more money retail - either farmer's markets, or community supported agriculture, or honey, or something else - like this.

And while lots of large farms are miles from anywhere, many farms are only a few minutes outside of major cities - commuting farms (or more and more, work from home farms).

> This content is not available in your region

That's unfortunate, I guess. But I can't help but to feel a bit amused that this is shown as plain text, not even as a styled HTML page.

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Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091603

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