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Farm to Table Dinner at Michael Fields
Posted on July 30, 2015Michael Fields is hosting a farm to table dinner featuring locally grown meats and vegetables. Proceeds support their student garden. For more information, visit the […]
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2015 Wisconsin Cover Crops Conference
Posted onThe theme of this year’s conference, “Cover Crops and Agricultural Resiliency,” features a mix of general sessions and bus tours highlighting successful cover crop practitioners […]
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Wisconsin Farm to School Success Story: Madison Metropolitan School District Garden Bars
Posted onIn several schools within the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), Farm to School AmeriCorps members are introducing elementary school students to their new garden bars.
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Student Organic Seed Symposium
Posted on July 15, 2015Entering its fourth year, this symposium was originally incepted to create a scientific community in which graduate students, researchers, farmers, and industry professionals could build […]
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Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers: Wisconsin Grower Intensive
Posted onThis event offers opportunities to network with other growers, learn about plant diseases and insect diagnoses, and obtain information from experts on a wide range […]
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Advancing Farm to School: Lessons from the Field
Posted on July 14, 2015This report, published by the Wisconsin Clearinghouse, captures and communicates many of the valuable lessons learned throughout a project that increased access to healthy food in fourteen communities across Wisconsin.
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Invigorating Sustainable Farms and Food: CIAS 2014 Annual Report
Posted on2014 was an exciting and special year for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), as we marked 25 years of bringing people together to create more sustainable food systems. This annual report summarizes our many 2014 accomplishments and recognizes the supporters who help make our work possible.
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Wisconsin Farm to School Success Story: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Garden (Wausau)
Posted on July 7, 2015In the fall of 2013, Wausau crossing guards went home with fresh-made pickles, and local residents opened their doors to bags full of vegetables following […]
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The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial: Long-Term Research for Resilient Agriculture
Posted on May 19, 2015The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST) was established in 1989 in response to farmers and others making a case for long-term research on low-input farming. WICST set out to investigate both the benefits and limitations of alternative agriculture through replicated research on the productivity, profitability and environmental impacts of both sustainably and conventionally managed production systems.
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Reducing Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
Posted on May 14, 2015Despite more than 40 years of largely voluntary efforts by federal, state, and local government, and tens of billions of US dollars of investment in conservation, nationwide progress on nutrient control has not yet been achieved.