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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Antigo Native Moves Back Home to Become an Organic Apple Grower
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:32
	Publish Date:		2019-04-05 05:00:00
	Description:		There is a growing market for locally grown food produced without the use of synthetic chemicals. In Antigo, the 100-year-old Grandview Orchard in Antigo is slowly being transformed to organic production. Jim Skibo continues our We Live Up Here series with the story. Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job and buying a farm? Lisa Rettinger has done just that. Four years ago, she quit her job in the Twin Cities and purchased a 110-year-old apple orchard just a few miles east of Antigo. Lisa worked for about 20 years in St Paul, Minnesota as a soil scientist after graduation from UW-River Falls with a degree in agronomy. Working in the GMO industry and in chemical regulation, she dreamed of farming without synthetic chemicals. With the encouragement of her family from Antigo, she decided to, in her words, “take the leap because what I was doing was really not that fulfilling.” She followed her passion and purchased orchard. She found that transforming an orchard completely away from
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