A return to what matters.

I’m Inga Orth a fourth-generation dairy farmer, licensed Wisconsin cheesemaker, and co-owner of St. Isidore’s Dairy. For years, I shared stories of farm life on camera. What I didn’t share was how burnout, people-pleasing, and generational pressure nearly broke me.

Unpasteurized is where I get real.

This is my space to talk about healing out loud from family dysfunction, emotional exhaustion, and the unspoken expectations so many of us carry. It’s about learning to rest, set boundaries, feel our feelings, and build a life that actually feels like ours.

You’ll find stories from the farm, honest reflections from therapy, and tools for recovery and reconnection all served up with some good cheese and no bullshit.

Thanks for being here. Let’s figure it out together.

Overhead view of a festive table with a cheese and fruit platter, crostini with toppings, glasses of sparkling wine, and holiday decorations on a blue and beige tablecloth.

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Homemade for the Holidays

Snow has arrived at the farm, and Inga gets ready to kick off holiday entertaining with homemade decorations and recipes. She crafts with dried citrus and eucalyptus, visits Lowes Creek Tree Farm to find the perfect tree and learns how to make traditional straw ornaments. For her gathering, Inga prepares a satisfying, vegetarian holiday meal.

Celebrate Small Farms

Inga Witscher visits small farms and makers finding new ways to preserve traditional practices. She meets with a sheep farmer, a maple syrup producer, a beekeeper, and several small family farms in this PBS Wisconsin original production.

Inga Visits a Fiber Mill

Inga visits the Mystic Water Fiber Mill in Mondovi and meets with Roxy, who shows how she and her husband, Dave, take wool and other animal fibers and process them into yarn.

Inga Meets A Young Dairy Farmer

Around the Farm Table host, Inga Witscher, travels to Monroe, Wisconsin to meet with Kalee Schaefer, a young woman who has taken over the management of a herd of cattle on the Wegmueller Dairy Farm. Kalee talks about her duties on the farm, and why she loves working with dairy cows.

Inga’s Jersey Cows

Dairy farmer Inga Witscher makes cheddar cheese using the milk from a micro herd of Jersey Cows. She invites us into her pasture and explains why Jerseys are her favorite breed of cow and why they're a perfect fit for her farm.

Inga Slices a Truckle of Wisconsin Cheese

Wisconsin is known for its expert cheesemakers and wide variety of artisanal cheeses. Around the Farm Table host, Inga Witscher shows her method for slicing up a large truckle of aged Wisconsin cheese in order to get it ready for market.

Inga Bakes An Apple Tarte

Using fresh ingredients and an easy method for making a pie crust from scratch, Inga walks us through her recipe for baking a simple yet elegant apple tarte.

Q and A with Inga

People often ask Around the Farm Table host Inga Witscher why she wanted to create a television show about farmers. In this reply video, Inga explains her original motivation for starting the show, and what it’s meant to her to be able to tell the stories of so many farmers and food producers around Wisconsin.

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