Lynde Uihlein, Milwaukee, WI

“My grandparents had a German proverb painted at the entrance to their house at Afterglow Farm that you can still see today. It translates, “This house is mine, and yet not mine. Who came before, it was not his. Whoever comes after must also leave. Tell me, dear friend, whose house is this?”

Lynde’s grandparents Joseph and Ilma Uihlein established Afterglow Farm in 1929 as their country residence. A Germanic-style timber-and-fieldstone cottage, evidence of her grandfather’s creativity and pride in his German heritage, is set amid large informal country gardens, begun by her horticulturist grandmother. Afterglow now features long-blooming, deer-resistant perennials anchored by specimen trees and bears the imprint of four generations. The property includes a maple, beech, and ash woodland, wooded ravines and paths, two ponds, native prairie gardens, two small orchards, and ornamental stone and ironwork on approximately 120 acres along the spectacular Lake Michigan shoreline. In 1989, Lynde founded the Brico Fund, a feminist nonprofit organization that builds the collective capacity of people and organizations to actively and sustainably improve civic, cultural, and natural environments. The Brico Fund’s current focus is water and climate crisis.

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