“There’s an old farm saying: You don’t piss in your own well,” says Landis Spickerman of Hermit Creek Farm. But that’s just what a proposed open-pit iron mine located three miles from their Northern Wisconsin farm threatens to do. “A mine will pollute our watershed,” explains Steven Spickerman. “It could kill the business we’ve worked for 21 years to grow.”

Organic farmers are true environmental stewards and watchdogs. Stand with Hermit Creek Farm and others by sharing this video created by Midwest Environmental Advocates, a nonprofit environmental law center that works for healthy water, air, land and government for this generation and the next.

Cornucopia Board member Bill Heart heads the Midwest Environmental Advocates’ Penokee Hills Education Project, dedicated to raising awareness of open-pit iron mining in this region of Wisconsin. “There is so much water up here,” says Heart. “All of these rivers flow into the Bad River which flows into Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. If you look at this area, it’s probably one of the worst places in the world to have an open-pit iron mine. It just absolutely makes no sense.”

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