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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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In Defense of Food and UW Madison's Go Big Read
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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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Buy Local Buy Wisconsin Grant Deadline EXTENDED to Oct. 7
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EXTENDED DEADLINE
Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant pre-proposals due October 7, 2009 by 4:00 pm
The Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (BLBW) grant program invites pre-proposals for projects that are likely to stimulate Wisconsin's agricultural economy by increasing the purchase of Wisconsin grown or produced food by local food buyers. Pre-proposals will be accepted from individuals, groups, businesses and organizations involved in Wisconsin agriculture, agritourism, food retailing, processing, distribution or warehousing.
The 2009 Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant Manual and pre-proposal template are available online at www.datcp.state.wi.us; keyword "Buy Local" or click on the link below for the BLBW page:
http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/directmktg/blbw.jsp
Questions regarding the BLBW program can be directed to Teresa Cuperus at 608-224-5101; teresa.cuperus@wisconsin.gov
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Status report on Go Big Read efforts
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Sep 25 2009, 11:12 AM EDT by
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An estimated 8,000 people attended Michael Pollan's lecture on campus last night. The crowd included dissenters, who from reports, were very well-behaved. There is a panel discussion today at the Union Theatre that will give the WI Farm Bureau and other commodity groups an opportunity to state their case. Do visit gobigread.wisc.edu for information on other upcoming events, such as the seven-part public lecture series entitled "What to Eat", sponsored by the Agroecology Program and CIAS.
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Sep 25 2009, 11:12 AM EDT
Just heard from Val Adamski that grazing farmers are stepping up nicely in some of the farm papers to show support for the Pollan perspective. GrassWorks will be rolling out three new pieces at the Food for Thought Festival at the Saturday farmers market on the Capitol Square. They are research summaries laid out as full color pamphlets w/ nice pictures. They will be available at minimal cost thru our web-site. I include them here as printable versions.
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Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grants Available
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Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant pre-proposals due September 21, 2009
The Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (BLBW) grant program invites pre-proposals for projects that are likely to stimulate Wisconsin's agricultural economy by increasing the purchase of Wisconsin grown or produced food by local food buyers. Pre-proposals will be accepted from individuals, groups, businesses and organizations involved in Wisconsin agriculture, agritourism, food retailing, processing, distribution or warehousing.
The 2009 Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin Grant Manual and pre-proposal template are available online at www.datcp.state.wi.us; keyword "Buy Local" or click on the link below for the BLBW page:
http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/directmktg/blbw.jsp
Questions regarding the BLBW program can be directed to Teresa Cuperus at 608-224-5101; teresa.cuperus@wisconsin.gov
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Greetings from Coulee View Family Farm where we took our first batch of broilers to be processed at a Wisconsin state inspected facility this week. This is late notice, but we are offering frozen birds from this first batch at a reduced rate on Friday only. We are planning a drop-off on Friday in Madison and could add other towns that are on the way. We will have mostly medium-growth broilers and a few slow-growth broilers available Friday.
Medium-Growth Broilers are processed between eight and ten weeks. They have large breast meat and flavor a bit superior to Cornish Cross due to their longer grow-out. Our 2009 price for medium growth whole birds is $3.55 per pound, but we are offering these for 10% off straight from the processor which comes to $3.20/lb. We will reduce the price by an additional 10% for orders over 10 birds which comes to $2.88/lb.
Slow-Growth Broilers are processed between ten and twelve weeks. They forage better, grow slower and have a superior taste that our grandparents would recognize as chicken. Our 2009 price for medium growth whole birds is $3.95 per pound, but we are offering these for 10% off straight from the processor which comes to $3.56/lb. We will reduce the price by an additional 10% for orders over 10 birds which comes to $3.20/lb.
Please contact is by phone or email if you are interested in this. You can find our contact information at the end of this post.
Dean & Kim Zimmerman
Coulee View Family Farm
Pastured Chicken, Eggs, Pigs and Heritage Turkey
Home: 608-874-4144
Work: 608-412-0076
www.couleeviewfarm.com
drzimmerman1@yahoo.com
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Food Auctions
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I work for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Found your site looking for ingenious distribution systems. Found it. Way to go.
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Time to apply for a Value Added Producer Grant!
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May 8 2009, 9:53 AM EDT by
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Value Added Producer Grants
The Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG) program is one of the nation’s most effective programs in fostering innovative agricultural operations, including organic and grass-fed based enterprises. This program provides competitive grants to producers for one of the following two activities:
Develop business plans and feasibility studies (including marketing plans or other planning activities) needed to establish viable marketing opportunities for value-added products; or
Acquire working capital to operate a value-added business venture or alliance. Working capital applications generally must be supported by an independent feasibility study as well as a business plan.
The following individuals and organizations can apply: individual independent agricultural producers, groups of independent producers, producer-controlled entities, organizations representing agricultural producers, and farmer or rancher cooperatives to create or develop value-added producer-owned businesses. Agricultural producers include farmers, ranchers, loggers, agricultural harvesters and fishermen that engage in the production or harvesting of an agricultural commodity.
The program is administered by the Cooperative Division of USDA’s Rural Business Cooperative Service, and grant applications are first screened through each state’s USDA Rural Development Office. Applications are due June 22, 2009. For more information call USDA’s Wisconsin office ofRural Development at (715) 345-7610 or visit their website: http://m1e.net/c?79772770-WdmQUkWSiYMEE%404225871-SzIAr5rFWyVtE
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
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East Troy, Wisconsin 53120
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Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Baldwin May 1st
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Please join Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin for a special town hall meeting on health care.
Efforts to overhaul our health care system are already well underway in Congress, and key leaders are saying a bill could reach President Obama's desk before the August recess.
Real change and quality affordable health care for all is closer than ever!
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin sits on an important health subcommittee in the House of Representatives, and will play a major role in passing legislation that brings sweeping change to our broken health care system.
Now is the time to tell Representative Baldwin we want leadership and bold action that guarantees quality affordable health care for her rural constituents.
Join us on May 1st and tell Representative Baldwin that the people want real change!
Health Care Town Hall with Rep. Tammy Baldwin
May 1, 2009
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Madison Labor Temple,
1602 S. Park Street
This event is sponsored by our friends at Health Care for America Now, Wisconsin.
To RSVP, click here to email organizer Brian Rothgery, or call him at (414) 476 - 4539.
For more information, visit www.healthcareforamericanow.org, or www.citizenactionwi.org.
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Kellogg Food and Society meeting tidbits - April 20
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Apr 21 2009, 6:36 PM EDT by
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500+ food activists from around the continent are meeting in San Jose to swap stories and develop new opportunities for local food work. A couple of things I picked up today include:
New Leaf Associates is conducting a marketing survey to assess the usefulness of a Journal of FOod systems and agricultural development. Go to www.surveymonkey.com/journalsurvey to let them know what you think.
The 13th annual community food security coalition conference will be held in Des Moines October 10-13, entitled "From Commodity to Community: Food Politics and Projects in teh Heartland
If you want to do an instant poll at a big conference, check out polleverywhere.com Earlier today we used this site to text message in survey responses in real time. I understand that they manage the data so that it can be summarized for later use in reports, websites, etc. Very effective and only requires a cell phone. Plus all those who don't know how to text can learn how!
Met with Suzie Wyshak from foodzie.com. They are marketing artisan foods through a web site so if you know of anyone with a first rate product, encourage them to contact Suzie.
Bob Scowcroft at the Organic Farming Research Foundation tells me that they are planning to do a webinar series this summer or fall. Two possible topics are organic fruit production and system thinking.
Christopher Bedford with the Center for Economic Security is planning to make a film on "Growing Health", how investing in rational food systems development will result in healthy people and communities and save us money on treating chronic health problems.
Gotta get back to the meeting. Will post more later.
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Interested in helping promote CSA in your community?
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Apr 20 2009, 6:03 PM EDT by
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Hi all,
I'm writing from the Madison Area CSA Coalition (MACSAC) we are new to the group and interested in working with local farmers, agencies, or organizations to replicate our successful CSA Open House event in different communities throughout WI. We are NOT interested in coordinating coalitions in other regions, but are sincerely interested in collaboration with farmers or advocates doing community organizing on behalf of their local farms to share our resources and help you in your own community to raise awareness and increase membership in your CSA farms. We are currently seeking funding to support this assistance project and looking for people interested in collaborating. Please give me a call or send an email if your area is not already served by a CSA Open House and you think there is a need/interest.
thanks!
MACSAC (608)226-0300 info@macsac.org
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Eau Claire is considering a community garden in a downtown location and planning members would love feedback from anyone involved with starting the community garden in Ashland. Go to the following website to read the story and leave feedback. Thanks!
http://volumeone.org/magazine/articles/495/Room_for_Improvement.html/page/1
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Local Food grant money available
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The RFA for the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program was released last week. Check it out!
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/community_food.html
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State or Regional Farmer's Market Coalition - any interest?
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I hope this is not a duplicate thread. (I am new to this site and learning as I go.) Jane Hansen suggested I post the question I posed to her this week as a new discussion thread. My question is: 'Is there any interest in forming a State or Regional Farmer's Market Coalition?' Many states have such an organization. For examples see: http://www.farmersmarketcoalition.org/ Some benefits of such an organization include knowledge sharing, global grant / funding requests, market manager training classes, etc. Interested / Not interested? Has Value/ No value? Worth discussing / not worth discussing?
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Please post your carpooling to local food events search here
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What's cooking? The evolutionary role of cookery
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Not really a discussion, but OK if that happens - an interesting reason why we developed because we sit around the fire and cook and visit. Tis not to be improved. See: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13139619
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Feb 6 2009, 12:14 AM EST by
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At the 2007 Wisconsin Local Food Summit, this was one of many topics of discussion. Since then, presentations have been made on the topic in various settings around the state. Please consider continuing the conversation here.
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Feb 6 2009, 12:14 AM EST
Re: food security is on some radars, although perhaps a bit greybeard. The AAAS ann mtg in Chicago has sessions on food security: www.aaas.org, click on ann mtg, program planner, browse, and look for food science. Not sure if the sessions will be archived, but you can see who some of the policy players are and pursue their actions. btw, I'll be at the mtg, but not sure if I'll be at the food sessions. If I hear of anything inspiring, I'll report later.
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Is this an appropriate place to list what we produce and currently have available?
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Jan 16 2009, 12:20 AM EST
There are a number of such tools in use / development around the Upper Midwest. They all have their own approach and are geared toward different primary users. We've been talking about how it may be useful to put them in a matrix and compare them. Maybe a good grad student project? Leopold Center in IA has invested in one of these tools. MI has one. IL has one. The food coops have one. Bet there are a lot more out there.
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Sep 11 2008, 7:09 PM EDT by
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I will be testing this system to accommodate a glossary of terms related to food systems.
Thanks for your patience!
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"Definition:
Mollisols - grassland soils of the steppes and prairies, known for their high net primary productivity, fertility and ability to maintain diverse flora and fauna communities. Found in the Great Plains and Western States (NRCS Map: http://soils.usda.gov/technical/classification/orders/mollisols_map.html), their formation was a result of the following factors:
1. Climate
2. Nature of parent material (e.g., bedrock)
3. Topography
4. Flora and fauna
5. Time
6. Human activities" Thanks for your ammendment/addition to my definition! So while you cannot edit a previous entry by deleting information, you can add to it, verdad? Here is some more to Mollisol, as I attempt a "hot link." Hot link action is negative. Any suggestions?
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Open Air
The World's guide to Street Markets and Street Vending
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http://www.openair.org/
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