MIDDLETON, Wis. (WKOW) — Wildflowers and grasses are in bloom at Holy Wisdom Monastery.

“I really, really think that in this modern, fast-paced, high-stimulus world, I feel all of us sort of hungering for a place where we can live this simpler life,” said Amy Alstad, the monastery’s director of land management and environmental education, while giving a tour through the monastery’s flourishing prairie trail.

But, a peaceful outdoor retreat like the trail wouldn’t exist if weren’t for the vision of the monastery’s four sisters: Lynne, Mary David, Joanne and Everline.

Together, they’ve restored 170 acres of land into a thriving prairie and oak savanna, a mission that started decades ago.

“There were no evergreens or trees on the property when the sisters came in 1953,” said Sister Joanne

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