MADISON — Hemp was the theme of this year’s Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum, with Kate VandenBosch, Dean of the College of Agricultural a…
The Midwest School for Beginning Apple Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start an orchard business, will be offered Mar. 6-8…
Food safety trainings for produce growers will be held in six locations around the state in January and February. The classes will be taught b…
SINSINAWA — What do a southeast Iowa chestnut grower, a Missouri elderberry grower and a Minnesota hazelnut grower have in common?
WISCONSIN DELLS — With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill almost a year ago now, hemp became legal to grow and process in all 50 states as it w…
LANCASTER — Those who made the snowy trek to Vesperman Farms Nov. 6 were also treated to apple cider donuts, made fresh that morning on site, …
GILMANTON — It may have been by accident that Tony DiMaggio got into farming, but it was no mistake.
MADISON — When Valentin Picasso, an assistant professor in UW-Madison’s agronomy department; Julie Olmstead, a program officer at The McKnight…
VERONA — Sprawling across about 570 acres, the West Madison Agricultural Research Station is unique among Wisconsin’s agricultural research st…
RIDGEWAY — Last Sunday, June 30, promised to be an interesting one as visitors arrived at Meadowlark Organics to looming dark clouds off in th…
RICHLAND CENTER — When Claudia and Jerry Berres moved to their rural Richland Center farm in 1994, they were fortunate to follow in the footst…
Steve Acheson grew up near Campbellsport in Fond du Lac County, spending time with family on their farms around the area as a youth. He was a …
Nine local food projects have been selected to receive grants through the Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin program, a competitive grant program design…
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LENA — If there’s an ideal book for the Lena Public Library, it’s “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”
The concept is simple: Take a book, share a book.
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