Category: News
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Posted on August 14, 2013
Uncommon Fruit
Want to learn more about fruits like aronia, currants, Saskatoon, and even jostaberries? CIAS worked with Dale Secher of Carandale Farm to create a website detailing Secher’s 10 years of on-farm research on uncommon fruit crops.
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Posted on May 30, 2013
CIAS works with Driftless Region partners on emerging forest crops
CIAS is working with Rooted Spoon Culinary, New Forest Farm, the Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative and the Midwest Aronia Association on the production, processing […]
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Marketing the Native Understory: Selling Driftless Hazelnuts, Aronia and Mushrooms Direct to Chefs
Viroqua, WI Hazelnuts and aronia are newly emerging, cultivated woody perennial crops in the Upper Midwest, and wild mushrooms are part of a long tradition […]
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Posted on May 5, 2013
Marketing the Native Understory: Selling Driftless Hazelnuts, Aronia and Mushrooms Direct to Chefs
Hazelnuts and aronia are newly emerging, cultivated woody perennial crops in the Upper Midwest, and wild mushrooms are part of a long tradition of foraging in this region. These “forest products” can help chefs create locally-sourced signature dishes, and can help landowners supplement and diversify their income.
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Posted on January 10, 2013
Conference: Networking Across the Supply Chain
This event brought professionals from across the food supply chain to the table to discuss ways to improve transportation and distribution for local and regional food.
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Posted on December 5, 2012
Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers: Jan. 18-20, 2013
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for anyone wanting to start a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 18-20, 2013 on the UW-Madison campus.
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Posted on July 25, 2012
Specialty Pork: Growing Flavor, Growing Markets
Rooted Spoon Kitchen Table, 219 S. Main Street, Viroqua, WI 54665 Registration fee: $30 ($45 for a pair registering together) The Center for Integrated Agricultural […]
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Posted on July 13, 2012
USDA to Launch “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass” Version 2.0
On July 17, USDA is proudly unveiling the 2.0 version of the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass, a digital resource detailing USDA’s involvement […]
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Posted on November 15, 2011
Farm to School Toolkits
Farm to school encourages healthy lifestyles in children and helps support local economies. The Wisconsin Farm to School Toolkits for school nutrition directors and producers can help you create a successful farm to school program in your community.
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Posted on October 17, 2011
UW-Extension Workshop Offers Lessons on Native Pollinators
A mix of casual gardeners and farmers who make a living in part through crop sales met at Tom and Mary Lou Nicholls’s Nature Education Center in Fifield to learn about native pollinators—species that could play a vital role in preserving American agriculture if honeybees continue to see their current levels of decline. (Photo: Hannah Gaines)