Rural Urban Flow

from 2022 Farm/Art DTour Guide

Taste of Fall Recipes by Edible Madison

"The division between urban and rural is the only serious border left to us. One serves to undermine the other. One could just as easily serve to mind the other. I am a serious border-crosser."

C.D. Wright, Cooling Time

Rural Urban FLOW is an evolving network of creators and producers from Milwaukee, Sauk County and beyond who organize seasonal exchanges. We look beyond neighborhoods and news feeds to cultivate common ground.

Look for a multimedia installation on the DTour organized by our FLOW partners. Visit ruralurbanflow.org

Kanopy Dance, 2016 DTour

Step Right Up by Erika Nelson, 2020 DTour

“My own childish passage from rural beauty to urban ugliness was matched by a multitude of other possible journeys: from pastoral simplicity to cosmopolitan sophistication, from rural bondage to urban freedom, from purity to corruption, from childhood to adulthood, from past to future. Each possible journey forms a powerful narrative trajectory, a compelling token of the divided world we inhabit—and yet each also reproduces that divided world. All these rural-urban passages share one underlying assumption which is itself deeply problematic. They all assume that city and country are separate and opposing worlds, that their divisions far outweigh their connections. And so all reinforce our widely held conviction that people can somehow build a world for themselves apart from nature.” — William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis