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| Mission: Creating statewide connections for learning from the experiences of Wisconsin local food initiatives. We foster learning for local and regional action through networking and dialogue. Details from the 2010 summit and conference Check out these pages on the WLFN site: Calendar Many thanks to our 2010 Sponsors:
UW River Falls - St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development and College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Price County UW-Extension (in-kind staff assistance) Many thanks to our 2009 Sponsors: Benefactor: DATCP - Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection EAM Team - UW Cooperative Extension Emerging Agricultural Markets Team Supporter: WI Natural Food Association Please join us in sharing information and learning from each other. Help us stay up to date about what you are doing in your communities. Take a look at the Discussion Forum. Is there a conversation you would like to join in on? Did you miss a Wisconsin Local Food Summit? Info from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 proceedings. Join the conversation often and make this wiki a lively and worthwhile place. Please post responsibly. | Current Hot Topic! May 11, 2010 White House released its action plan to reduce childhood obesity http://www.letsmove.gov/taskforce_ childhoodobesityrpt.html Great Lakes Farm to School A brief questionnaire has been developed in order to gather basic information from as many groups, organizations and individuals as possible working on farm to school and related projects in the Great Lakes region. Information gathered will be used to expand the region’s ability to network together on resources and related issues, via Network updates, action alerts and web postings. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SUBMIT A COMPLETED SURVEY AND HELP TO EXPAND NETWORKING IN YOUR REGION Click here to take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PNCPB8W Feb. 9, 2010. First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled Let's Move, a comprehensive approach to eliminating childhood obesity in this generation. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-establishing-a-task-force-childhood-obesity UW Madison reading and discussing In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan http://www.gobigread.wisc.edu Check out the Wisconsin Regional Food System Pages. This would be a great place to continue your conversations about your regional activities. New to wikis? Watch this short video: Wikis in Plain English |
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| ldfarnsworth | Now Available! Scaling Up: Meeting the Demand for Local Food | 0 | Jan 14 2010, 1:46 PM EST by ldfarnsworth | ||
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The UW Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) and UW Extension are pleased to announce the release of Scaling Up: Meeting the Demand for Local Food, profiling eleven enterprises active in local wholesale food supply chains.
To access an electronic copy of the document, please visit: www.cias.wisc.edu/farm-to-fork/scaling-up-meeting-the-demand-for-local-food/ Free copies of the report will be available at the Wisconins Local Food Summit, January 20-22. To reserve copies in advance, please send an email with your name, organization, and the desired quantity. To purchase a hard copy, please visit the UW Extension Learning Store at learningstore.uewx.edu or contact Lindsey Day Farnsworth: ldfarnsworth@wisc.edu, 608.890.2433. BACKGROUND Robust local food systems offer social, environmental and economic benefits. Increasingly, wholesale buyers are seeking local food and growers are looking for new local markets. To meet the demand for locally grown food and move large quantities of it into markets such as restaurants, grocery stores and institutions, local food systems must expand from farmer-direct sales of small quantities to wholesale transactions. By scaling up, local food systems may borrow economic and logistical efficiencies from the industrial food system while retaining social and environmental values such as sustainable agricultural practices and profitability for small- and mid-scale family farms and businesses. To develop informed business development strategies for Wisconsin farmers and other supply chain start-ups, the UW-Madison CIAS and UW-Extension Agricultural Innovation Center documented and analyzed eleven models of regional food aggregation and distribution. |
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| kkmonroe | Holistic Management Workshops | 0 | Oct 9 2009, 4:18 PM EDT by kkmonroe | ||
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Buy Local Buy Wisconsin Holistic Management Workshops To Start In November
Contact: Kenny Monroe (608) 224-5112 kenneth.monroe@wi.gov The Buy Local Buy Wisconsin Workshop Roadshow will start in November with workshops titled “Making Decisions About Local Food Sales Opportunities Using the Holistic Management Framework” in four locations. The workshops will be in Platteville Wednesday, Nov. 11; Madison Thursday, Nov. 12; Wisconsin Rapids Friday, Nov. 13; and Eau Claire Wednesday, Jan. 20. The workshops will center on a new framework for decision-making called “holistic management.” Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach to farm management that strives to build biodiversity, improve production, build financial strength, and improve the farmer’s quality of life. Dane County Farmers Market manager and veteran holistic management educator Larry Johnson will lead the workshops, with assistance from long-time University of Wisconsin-Extension agent and holistic management expert Andy Hager. The cost to attend either the Nov. 11 or Nov. 12 workshop is $50 for the first farm partner and $20 for additional farm partners. The workshops will also take place as a part of two larger conferences: “Connecting Threads: A Conference for Women Farmers” on Friday, Nov. 13 in Wisconsin Rapids; and the “12th Annual Value Added Agriculture Conference” on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 in Eau Claire. For more information and to register for the workshops or the conferences, go to www.datcp.state.wi.us and look under “online services.” Information and registration materials are also available by contacting Kenny Monroe, kenneth.monroe@wi.gov, phone 608-224-5112. Additional Buy Local Buy Wisconsin workshops will be offered in early 2010, including Quickbooks 101 for Farmers, Post-Harvest Handling for Vegetable Production Quality and Success, and Food Safety on the Market Farm.
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| JaneHansen | In Defense of Food and UW Madison's Go Big Read | 0 | Sep 29 2009, 6:23 PM EDT by JaneHansen | ||
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Gerry Campbell noted the following:
In Defense of Food-- There is no better place to begin an understanding of systems concepts than your dinner plate. What you eat, where it came from, how you pay for it, what it does to/for you and what it does to our world are all great question which lead to complexity, feedback loops, mental models and so on. Here in Wisconsin our largest University is giving all of us the opportunity to get engaged in a conversation about food systems. Go Big Read is UW-Madison's new common-reading program. It aims to have thousands of people reading, talking and sharing their reactions and opinions. The First book selected for this program is Michael Pollan's book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Pollan examines the modern American food landscape where the deceptively simple question of what to eat has been muddled by the numerous and often conflicting claims of food producers, marketers, and nutrition experts. If you want a taste of Pollan as a systems thinker look at the link below where he connects food systems and health insurance issues. I encourage you to read Pollan's book, but at a minimum check out the general web page for the UW's Go Big Read discussion at http://www.gobigread.wisc.edu Please log on to the site look at the events, check out the blog an give your comments as a food systems thinker and activist. Big Food vs. Big Insurance ByMICHAEL POLLAN Published: September 9, 2009York Times Op Ed September 10 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html
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