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1000 Friends of Wisconsin
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1000 Friends of Wisconsin educates the citizens and policy makers of Wisconsin about the benefits of sound land use planning. We advocate for state and local land use policies that protect diverse natural communities, promote the preservation of productive farmland and livable communities, and provide for the kinds of development and growth that most efficiently use taxpayers' investments.
Initiatives
Purchasing of development rights for agricultural land near cities.
Primary Lisa MacKinnon
Key Individuals
Website http://www.1kfriends.org/
Email friends@1kfriends.org
Business Phone (608) 259-1000
Address
16 North Carroll Street, Suite 810
City Madison
Postal Code 53703
 
Aldo Leopold Foundation
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The Aldo Leopold Foundation, founded by the children of Aldo Leopold, keeps his legacy alive by promoting the 'Land Ethic' he so eloquently defined. The Foundation actively integrates programs in land stewardship, environmental education, and ecological research to promote care of natural resources and foster an ethical relationship between people and land.
Initiatives
Through The Blufflands Project, a cooperative initiative with The Prairie Enthusiasts, the Foundation provides technical assistance and manpower to landowners wishing to protect prairie and savanna remnants in portions of Sauk, Columbia, Iowa, and Dane counties.
Primary Buddy Huffaker
Key Individuals
Rob Nelson
Website http://www.aldoleopold.org/
Email mail@aldoleopold.org
Business Phone (608) 355-0279
Address
PO Box 77
City Baraboo
Postal Code 53913

Blue Planet Partners
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Blue Planet Partners is a non-profit corporation established to apply and advance an interdisciplinary regional design process to the I90 corridor between Madison and Chicago that will be a model for regions across the United States and around the world to optimize their cultural, economic and environmental resources. 
Initiatives
They have been involved in the Madison Public Market as well as looking at building a local food system.
Primary James Bower
Key Individuals
Website http://www.blueplanetpartners.org/
Email jbower@blueplanetpartners.org
Business Phone (608) 255-0811
Address
120 East Lakeside Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53715
 
Community Action Coalition for South Central WI, Inc.
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CAC's mission is to develop economic and social capacities of individuals, families and communities to reduce poverty in Dane, Jefferson and Waukesha Counties. CAC has seven divisions: Citizen Advocacy, Family Support, Financial Services, Food and Gardens, Volunteer Services, Jefferson County, and Waukesha County.
Initiatives
The CAC Community Gardens Program provides support services to develop and enhance locally designed and managed community gardens and related food growing enterprises that substantially benefit and include low and moderate income households and groups in order to strengthen the overall community fabric and to increase individual and local food security.

Each year the Food Security Division distributes approximately 2.5 million pounds of perishable and non-perishable food to people in our communities. CAC does this by coordinating the Dane County Food Pantry Network, distributing TEFAP commodities, recovering food through the CAC Gleaners, and campaigns such as Plant a Row for the Hungry and Food Share Day.
Primary Chris Brockel (Foods) and Janet Parker (Gardens)
Key Individuals
Website http://www.cacscw.org/
Email chrisb@cacscw.org or janetp@cacscw.org
Business Phone (608) 246-4730 [Chris ext. 206 or Janet ext. 218]
Address
1717 North Stoughton Road
City Madison
Postal Code 53704

Community Food and Garden Network
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The Community Food and Garden Network (CFGN) is a network of people in the Madison area using food as a way to build a stronger sense of community and working to make gardening available to everyone- including youth, seniors, and people with special needs. Our purpose is simple - to connect people through gardening. Subscribe to the listserv by sending an email to <communityfoodandgardennetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.
Initiatives
Primary Dawn Burgardt
Key Individuals
Website http://www.cacscw.org/gardens/cfgn
Email dburgardt@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 246-4730 ext. 212
Address
CFGN c/o Community Gardens Division
Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc.
1717 North Stoughton Road
City Madison
Postal Code 53704
 
Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin
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Membership is open to everyone, including home cooks, food writers, chefs, nutritionists, collectors, scholars, and students. CHEW programs include monthly presentations by speakers with discussion and frequent food samplings and/or cooking demonstrations. Past topics include history of the birthday cake, the origins of Door County fish boils, the saga of corn, Native American fish foodways, food pyramid debates, and traditional Serbian cookery.
Initiatives
Primary Paul Lyne & Jane Voichick
Key Individuals
Website http://chew.wisconsincooks.org/
Email chew@wisconsincooks.org
Business Phone
Address
City Madison
Postal Code

Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
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The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a sustainable agriculture research center at the University of Wisconsin's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. CIAS brings together farmers, researchers, policy makers, and others to study farming practices, farm profitability, the environment, and rural vitality. Their vision is of sustainable agricultural and food systems that contribute to the well-being of families, workers, consumers, and their communities.

CIAS was created in 1989 to build UW sustainable agriculture research programs that respond to farmer and citizen needs...and involve them in setting research agendas. This means that human relationships are at the core of everything they do. A Citizens Advisory Coucil helps to build meaningful citizen involvement into their programs. A Faculty Associates group helps to develop relationships with faculty members representing a broad range of academic disciplines. CIAS staff members work with these partners to create flexible, multidisciplinary research in emerging areas including: crop and livestock production, farm business, food processing, food systems, land management, and marketing.
Initiatives
- Pasture-Based Farming: Research on the status of managed grazing in Wisconsin and important questions raised by graziers.
- Participatory Research and Plant Breeding for Sustainable Production Systems: This project is addressing current limitations in seed production and is beginning a participatory breeding project for sustainable and organic production systems.
- Profit by Planning: Gathering information on the economics of fresh market vegetable production, direct marketing, and quality of life on vegetable farms.
- Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle: A national initiative to renew disappearing mid-scale farms, ranches, and related agrifood enterprises.
- Community Supported Agriculture: Research on CSA farm management, including economics, scale, and member involvement and education.
- Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial: Systems research measuring the profitability, productivity and environmental impacts of six cropping systems.
- Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction/Eco-Apple Project: Addressing the impacts of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) on Wisconsin commodities and producers, including methods for sustainable apple production.
- Organic Research Initiative: Increasing the number of research and outreach projects at UW that benefit organic farmers.
- Training and Research for Beginning Farmers: Training programs for beginning dairy farmers and market growers, and research on farm entry.
- Value-Added Enterprise Budgets: User-friendly software packages for farmers to evaluate the economics of their value-added enterprises.
- Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch: A farm-to-school program bringing local food and farmers into Madison's public schools.
- Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum: A free curriculum that addresses the social, environmental and economic impacts of agriculture.
- Specialty Cheese in Wisconsin: A baseline study of Wisconsin’s specialty cheese industry, including characteristics of profitable, competitive businesses.
- Farm Fresh Atlas: A guide to farms and food-related businesses that sell their products directly to customers in southern Wisconsin.
- Sustaining Local Food Systems in a Globalizing Environment: Wisconsin's work on this national project has focused on specialty cheese, pastured poultry, and the sourcing of locally grown food by public schools.
- Home Grown Wisconsin: CIAS has tracked the development of this local marketing cooperative based in southern Wisconsin.
- Value-Added Survey: The first comprehensive portrait of value-added agriculture in Wisconsin.
- Sustainable Woods Cooperative Case Study: A profile of a woodland owners’ cooperative that closed its operations.
- F.H. King Student Organic Garden: Support for a student-operated garden on the UW-Madison campus.
- Troy Gardens: Participatory research on a community owned and managed urban agriculture project on Madison's north side.
Primary Brent McCown, Director
Key Individuals
Website http://www.cias.wisc.edu/
Email bhmccown@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 262-5201
Address
Centerfor Integrated Agricultural Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
1535 Observatory Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53706
 
Common Wealth Development, Inc.
Mssion
Common Wealth Development is continuing to build and sustain a vibrant, diverse, engaged, inclusive and safe community.
 
Goals:
- to provide job training, placement, financial education and mentoring for low-income teens;
- to promote the creation of new living wage jobs for low-to-moderate income people while improving the local business climate;
- to create affordable housing for people with limited incomes;
- to preserve and improve older housing stock while preserving the community’s socio-economic diversity;
- and to involve the people living and working in our neighborhoods in community-building activities. 
Initiatives
Partnering with Blue Planet Partners on the Madison Public Market project.
Primary Richard Slone, Public Market Project Manager
Key Individuals
Website http://www.cwd.org/
Email sich@cwd.org
Business Phone (608) 256-3527
Address
1501 Williamson Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53703

Cornucopia Institute
Mssion
The Cornucopia Institute is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development our goal is to empower farmers both politically and through marketplace initiatives.
Initiatives
The Organic Integrity Project acts as a corporate watchdog assuring that no compromises to the credibility of organic farming methods and the food it produces are made in the pursuit of profit. We will actively resist regulatory rollbacks and the weakening of organic standards to protect and maintain consumer confidence in the organic food label.
Right now they are challenging the USDA organic standards that doesn't require grazing standards for the organic labels.  They are also putting out a report rating organic producers.
Primary Mark Kastel
Key Individuals
Will Fantle
Website http://www.cornucopia.org/
Email cultivate@cornucopia.org
Business Phone 608-625-2042
Address
P.O. Box 126
City Cornucopia
Postal Code 54827
 
Dane County Buy Local Initiative
Mssion
The Dane County Buy Local Initiative is a coalition of local independent businesses, social impact groups and citizens working together to support a healthy community economy.  We seek to mobilize resources in Madison and the surrounding area, engage the total community in the process of economic renewal, and inspire each other to take action.
Initiatives
Ten percent pledge.  Have consumers pledge to purchase 10 percent of their goods from local businesses.
Primary Josie Pradella
Key Individuals
Website
Email info@wiscpsa.org
Business Phone 608-222-8708
Address
City Madison
Postal Code

Dane County Farmers Market
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The Dane County Farmers' Market, Inc. is an organization founded to pursue the following goals:
To give growers and producers of Wisconsin agricultural commodities and other farm-related products alternative marketing opportunities.
To promote the sale of Wisconsin-grown farm products.
To improve the variety, freshness, taste and nutritional value of produce available in the Madison area.
To provide an opportunity for farmers and people from urban communities to deal directly with each other rather than through third parties, and to thereby get to know and learn from one another.
To provide an educational forum for consumers to learn the uses and benefits of quality, locally grown or prepared food products.
To provide educational opportunities for producers to test and refine their products and marketing skills.
To enhance the quality of life in the Greater Madison area by providing a community activity which fosters social gathering and interaction.
To preserve Wisconsin's unique agricultural heritage and the historical role which farmers' markets have played in it.
Initiatives
Primary Larry Johnson
Key Individuals
Website http://www.dcfm.org/
Email larryj@dcfm.org
Business Phone (608) 455-1999
Address
PO Box 1485
City Madison
Postal Code 53701-1485
 
Dane County Farmers Union
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A member-driven farm organization committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities and all citizens through educational opportunties, cooperative endeavors and civic engagement. The farmers and other concerned citizens who comprise WFU's membership believe that the values of rural Wisconsin must be preserved and nurtured, and that owner-operated farms are the most efficient and sustainable food production system.
Initiatives
Primary Richard Keller
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone 608) 437-5122
Address
City
Postal Code

Dane County Food Council
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The Dane County Food Council explores issues and develops recommendations to create an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable local food system for the Dane County region.
Initiatives
On October 6th, 2005, Dane County adopted Resolution 90, 2005-06 which created a Food Council to do the following: (1) Support the development of infrastructure and marketing opportunities for local foods. (2) Initiate local purchasing in county food service facilities. (3) Support development of a Central Agriculture and Food Facility (CAFF) and Public Market. (4) Establish a countywide network of farmers markets. (5) Support "Entrepreneurial Agriculture" and innovative farmland preservation initiatives. (6) Promote the use of local foods to improve health and nutrition.

This council was created on recommendation of the Local Food Policy Advisory Subcommittee in their "Recipe for Success" Report, which is available online.
Primary Dawn Burgardt, Program Coordinator
Key Individuals
Council members:
Martin Bailkey
Jerry Bradley
Gerald Campbell
Judy Hageman
Jerry Kaufman
Robert Pierce 
Ken Ruegsegger
Dale Secher
Richard A. Slone
Ruth Simpson
Lisa M. Wiese
Jane Voichick
Website http://www.co.dane.wi.us/foodcouncil/
Email burgardt@co.dane.wi.us
Business Phone (608) 266-4540
Address
210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard- Room 362
City Madison
Postal Code 53703
 
Dane County- UW Extension
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With an office in each Wisconsin county, Cooperative Extension develops practical educational programs tailored to local needs and based on university knowledge and research. County-based Extension educators are University of Wisconsin faculty and staff who are experts in agriculture and agribusiness, community and economic development, natural resources, family living and youth development.


Initiatives
In Dane County UW-Extension Faculty and Staff provide education programs and support to:

The Dane County Ag Enterprise Grants program for 2006 has two categories for funding: 1) $1000 to develop a business plan and 2) full proposals to start a business enterprise. Applications are due September 15, 2006.

The Master Gardener Program provides educational programs in horticulture to adults who, in turn, volunteer to help with projects that benefit their local community or County Extension office. There are  General Training Sessions and a Specialized Training Sessions for more advanced gardeners.  There are expanding hands on education programs that are delivered to underserved youth through a joint effort by the nutrition educators and horticulture educator related to food production and proper preparation.  

WNEP- Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program helps low income elderly, families and youth learn about nutrition and resource management through research-based education programs; collaborates with community, state and federal organizations in the design and implementation of nutrition and resource management education programs; and trains local leaders, volunteers and agency staff in developing community nutrition and resource management education programs.

The Family Living program is promoting healthy, well-nourished families as they learn to manage food dollars, plan nutritious meals, and purchase, prepare, and serve food that is safe to eat. The education program also addresses home food preservation.  Other education programs address the basics of earning, spending, saving, investing, health care, and housing issues through the Dane County Extension Financial Education Center located at the Villager Mall on Park Street..

Youth are involved in food and farming through the Junior Master Gardeners program and 4-H, a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.

The Dane County Hunger Prevention Council was initially created as the result of Extension efforts.  Key staff members of Extension provide ongoing educational input and resources within the Council. 
Primary Lee Cunningham, Department Head
Key Individuals
Website http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/dane
Email lee.cunningham@ces.uwex.edu
Business Phone (608) 224-3700
Address
1 Fen Oak Court, Room 138
City Madison
Postal Code 53718-8812

Eastside Farmers Market
Mssion
Tuesday, from 4-7 p.m. May to October at the site of the new Madison Central Park, 201 S. Ingersoll St., Madison
Initiatives
Primary Lynn Olson
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone 608-251-0884
Address
City
Postal Code
 
Family Farm Defenders
Mssion
The mission of FFD is to create a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food system based upon  democratic institutions that respect and empower local people in their quest for justice and dignity.  To this end, FFD supports sustainable agriculture, farm worker rights, animal welfare, consumer safety, fair trade, and food sovereignty.  It is FFD's belief that healthy, safe, accessible food is a basic human right and that all communities should be able to control their own food system.

FFD is national grassroots organization founded in Wisconsin with now with members in all 50 states, plus Canada and Mexico, as well as several state chapters and affiliates in OH, PA, and NY.  FFD is also an active  member of larger groups such as the WI Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), Churches' Center for Land and People (CCLP), Rural Coalition, National Family Farmer Coalition (NFFC), Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC), and Via Campesina.
Initiatives
Current FFD campaigns include:

Fighting for Better Milk:  In 2002 FFD launched a national campaign against the illegal use of imported MPC in human food, including a boycott of Kraft Singles and other adulterated products.  This campaign has expanded to include other corporate attempts to downgrade dairy food standards and criminalize raw milk consumption.

Supporting Food Safety:  FFD educates and activates the public against expanded use of dangerous industrial agribusiness technologies like advanced meat recovery (AMR), cannibalistic livestock feeding practices, food irradiation, synthetic hormones, sub-therapeutic antibiotics, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Challenging Factory Farms:  FFD helps communities resist largescale livestock confinement operations that pose an unprecedented threat to clean water, air quality, animal welfare, worker rights, and public safety.  FFD works hard to promote more democratic, viable and sustainable rural development alternatives.

Overhauling Federal Food Policies: FFD supports the National Family Farm Coalition's (NFFC) -Food From Family Farms Act and is actively involved in efforts to transform the Farm Bill and reverse U.S. free trade policies that hurt both farmers and consumers at home and abroad.

Reclaiming Agri-Culture:  FFD works closely with others to get healthy local food into public schools; create food policy councils; expand farmers' markets, community supported agriculture (CSA), and community gardens; as well as bringing closer together the organic farming, fair trade, buy local and slow food movements. 

Promoting Domestic Fair Trade:  In 1996 FFD launched the nation's first domestic fair trade initiative involving direct marketing of rBGH free, organic, and grass-fed family farmer cheeses produced at Cedar Grove in Plain, WI.  In 2006 FFD also collaborated with WNPJ to publish Wisconsin's first local food fair trade directory.

Defending Food Sovereignty:  FFD is working with Via Campesina to popularize the global principle of food
sovereignty in the U.S. and defend the right of local people to democratically determine the seeds they plant, how animals are raised, the types of agriculture done in a community, and - ultimately - what they eat.
Primary John Peck, Executive Director
Key Individuals
John Kinsman, President
Paul Rozwadowski, Secretary
Francis Goodman, Treasurer
Ruth Simpson, Executive Board member
Lori Matthews, Fair Trade Project Coordinator
Website http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/
Email familyfarmdefenders@yahoo.com
Business Phone (608) 260-0900
Address
Mailing: P.O. Box 1772
Office: 1019 Williamson St. #B, Madison, WI  53703
City Madison
Postal Code 53701

F. H. King Students of Sustainable Agriculture
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F.H. King Students of Sustainable Agriculture is a group of committed individuals at the University of Wisconsin - Madison gathered for the purpose of learning, debating, educating and acting on the ideas of sustainable agriculture, economies and society. We convene in the spirit of F. H. King, an agricultural physics professor here at UW-Madison and founder of the Department of Farm engineering (Agricultural Engineering) in 1904, and The Department of Soil Science in 1905.
Initiatives
Organic Garden Demonstration Project
Primary Caroline Brock
Key Individuals
Michael Bell
Website http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~fhking
Email ccbrock@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 772-1047
Address
c/o CIAS, 1450 Linden Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53706
 
Fitchburg Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Thursdays, 3pm to 6pm
Location: Left at Intersection of Fish Hatchery Rd. and E. Cheryl Pkwy., Fitchburg (under Agora Pavilion), RAIN or SHINE
Initiatives
Primary Steve Leverentz
Key Individuals
Website http://www.fitchburgcenter.com/
Email
Business Phone (608) 277-2592
Address
City Fitchburg
Postal Code

Friends of Dane County Farmers Market
Mssion
The Friends of the Dane County Farmers’ Market, Inc is designed to support the charitable and educational activities of the Dane County Farmers’ Market. 
Initiatives
Projects they are working on:  Farm Fresh Atlas, School on the Square and Meet the Farmer, Plant a Seedling, Kids make Edible Jewelry, plus other food tastings.
Primary Judy Hageman
Key Individuals
Website http://www.friends@dcfm.org/
Email
Business Phone
Address
P.O. Box 1584
City Madison
Postal Code 53701
 
Growing Power
Mssion
Growing Power is a nation-wide not-for-profit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the natural environments they live in through the development of community food systems. These systems provide high-quality, healthy, affordable food for all people living in the community.
Initiatives
Urban agriculture

The Market Basket Program is a CSA-style food distribution program designed to connect urban consumers with small-scale, regionally local food systems.  The program consists of weekly deliveries of boxes of produce from our Rainbow Farmer’s Cooperative to neighborhoods throughout urban Chicago and Milwaukee. This program is a year-round food security program that supplies safe, healthy, and affordable whole foods, vegetables, and fruits to communities at a low cost. Because the program is run on a weekly basis, each customer may engage week to week at a pace that is right for them. Robert Pierce is working with Growing Power to expand the Market Basket program to Madison. The Dane County Food Council is also working to support this effort.

Community Food Centers are local places where people can learn sustainable practices to grow, process, market and distribute food.  Growing Power's Milwaukee-based Community Food Center has been established for several years and features a wide variety of active demonstrations, including aquaculture, vermiculture, large-scale composting, etc.  Growing Power provides hands-on training or guided, educational tours at the Milwaukee-based Community Food Center.   The training that occurs at the Milwaukee center provides the seed for Growing Power's collaborative projects.

Primary Will Allen
Key Individuals
Jerry Kaufman
Robert Pierce
Website http://www.growingpower.org/
Email info@growingpower.org
Business Phone (414) 527-1546
Address
5500 West Silver Spring Drive
City Milwaukee
Postal Code 53218

Hilldale Farmers' Market
Mssion
May 7th through October, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 7am to 2pm. Location: Hilldale Shopping Center parking lot next to Segoe Rd. Check the website for updated information about the Winter Market.
Initiatives
Primary Joyce Nelson or Carrie
Key Individuals
Website http://www.hilldalefarmersmarket.com/
Email cskille@hilldale.com
Business Phone (608) 238-6353 #8
Address
City Madison
Postal Code
 
Homegrown Wisconsin
Mssion
These farms share common philosophies about farming and eating as well as an order and delivery system that gets food from the farm to your table in less than a day.  Organic and sustainable agricultural practices result in the most delicious and healthy produce one can eat, while actually fortifying the soil in which it is grown rather than depleting and polluting it.
Initiatives
Primary Deb Hansen
Key Individuals
Lesley Wolf
Amanda Raster
Website http://www.homegrownwisconsin.com/about.htm
Email manager@homegrownwisconsin.com
Business Phone (608) 347-3054
Address
PO Box 6171
City Madison
Postal Code 53716

Hunger Prevention Council of Dane County
Mssion
The mission of the Hunger Prevention Council of Dane County is to coordinate and improve efforts to prevent hunger and promote food security throughout Dane County through information sharing, research, public education and advocacy.
Initiatives
Primary Patti Daubs
Key Individuals
Pat Ludeman
Website
Email pedaubs@charter.net
Business Phone (608) 233-7374
Address
PO Box 46006
City Madison
Postal Code 53744
 
Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
Mssion
The Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Coalition works to create a sustainable, just, and locally based food system in Southern Wisconsin by promoting and supporting CSA farms, coordinating community and farmer education programs about the benefits of locally, sustainably grown foods, and operating the Partner Shares Program which raises funds to subsidize CSA memberships for households on a limited income.
Initiatives
Our recently updated food book, "From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Farm-Fresh, Seasonal Produce, " is an indispensable tool for all fresh produce lovers. The coalition also makes CSA shares affordable for low-income households through the Partner Shares Program.
Primary Laura Brown
Key Individuals
Website http://www.macsac.org/
Email info@macsac.org
Business Phone (608) 226-0300
Address
PO Box 7814
City Madison
Postal Code 53707-7814

Mad City Chickens
Mssion
In the Spring of 2004, Madison, WI passed a law allowing single-family homes the right to raise poultry in the back yard. Previous to this law, poultry was allowed inside the home, but not outside. Coops were not permitted, nor was raising poultry inside the garage. Today it is legal to have 4 hens (no roosters) in a coop, no closer than 25' from the nearest neighbors living quarters. Butchering within the city limits is still not allowed.

Mad City Chickens started out as a group of like-minded, pro-poultry people (also known as the "poultry underground"). Our aim is to educate the urban population on the benefits of raising ones own food, and to bring to light the misconceptions people might have about the raising of poultry in an urban setting. Mad City Chickens is available to answer questions and concerns regarding all aspects of poultry rearing. We have the wonderful support of our local UW Extension Poultry Specialist and the staff of the UW Poultry Science Dept. They are a wealth of information, and willing to share it.
Initiatives
Mad City Chickens offers an introductory class for those who are interested in raising birds in their own backyard. A class for those who would like an in-depth look at Poultry Coop Design and Construction, is in the works.
Primary Alicia Rheal
Key Individuals
Website http://www.madcitychickens.com/
Email arheal@mhtc.net
Business Phone
Address
City Madison
Postal Code
 
Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance
Mssion
The Madison Fair Trade Action Alliance (MadFTAA) was formed after the watershed WTO meeting/protest in Seattle by those interested in challenging corporate globalization, free trade, and neoliberalism, and creating locally-oriented fair trade economic models within Madison and the greater Dane County bioregion.
Initiatives
MadFTAA has regular meetings, produces educational materials, hosts speakers and forums, and makes sure that Wisconsin has a voice and presence at various trade events.
Primary Beth Geglia
Key Individuals
John Peck
Website http://www.madftaa.org/
Email elgeglia@wisc.edu
Business Phone (202)256-5263
Address
216 N. Hamilton St.
City Madison
Postal Code 53703

Madison Environmental Group, Inc.
Mssion
Madison Environmental Group is an interdisciplinary consulting firm assisting businesses and individuals with innovative resource and cost saving solutions which contribute to a healthy community and environment.
Initiatives
To successfully "Build Green" involves thoughtful, integrated decision-making from project concept to building occupancy. Helping people "Live Green" is the next step. It’s the actions of those who occupy and manage buildings and homes, and who travel to and from them, that will make a lasting difference in preserving our natural and community resources.

Build green project consulting services:
- Green Development Consultation
- Construction and Deconstruction Recycling
- Transportation and Parking Demand Management
- Fullcircle Interior Design Service

Live green community programs:
- EnAct: Environmental Action Teams (http://www.enactwi.org/)
- Car-Free Challenge (www.madisonenvironmental.com/projects_carfree2005.htm)
- Community Car (http://www.communitycar.com/)
- Community Outreach and Education

Research and development services:
- Feasibility Studies and Pilot Programs
Primary Sonya Newenhouse, President
Key Individuals
Website http://www.madisonenvironmental.com/
Email meg@madisonenvironmental.com
Business Phone (608) 280-0800
Address
25 N Pinckney, Suite 310
City Madison
Postal Code 53701
 
Madison Originals
Mssion
Perserving the Madison Area's Unique Local Flavor.  Madison Originals is a not-for-profit chapter of The Council of Independent Restaurants of America (CIRA). The purpose of this corporation is to serve as a trade association, as defined in Section 501 (c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code 1986, as amended, to educate and promote the interests of the independent restaurant industry.
Initiatives
Madison Originals Magazine, Coupons, CIRA meeting in Madison in May 2006.
Primary Lisa Lathrop
Key Individuals
Susan Breitbach
Craing Kuenning
Marcia O'Halloran
Lee Pier
Teresa Pullara
Robert Von Rutenburg
Barbara Wright
Website http://www.madisonoriginals.org/
Email board@madisonoriginals.org
Business Phone 608-251-2521
Address
P.O. Box 259501
City Madison
Postal Code 53725-5901

Madison Public Market
Mssion
Initiatives
Primary
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone
Address
City
Postal Code
 
McFarland Farmers' Market
Mssion
Mid-May through October, Thursdays, 2pm to 6pm. 
Location: 5724 Farwell St., McFarland.

Winter Market, November & December, Most Saturdays, 10am to 3pm.  Location: McFarland Municipal Bldg.

Holiday Market, Dec. 2nd, 10am to 3pm.
Location: McFarland Municipal Bldg., during Christmas in the Village.
Initiatives
Primary Dale Marsden
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (608) 838-3992
Address
City McFarland
Postal Code

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Mssion
Michael Fields’ mission is to cultivate the ecological, social, economic, and spiritual vitality of food and farming systems through education, research, policy and market development. Since 1984, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute has been devoted to developing an agriculture that can sustain the land and its resources.  As a public, non-profit learning center, we seek to revitalize farming with research, education, technical assistance and public policy. 
Initiatives
Milwaukee Public Market, crop production research, farm systems outreach and education, and garden student project.
Primary Ron Doetch
Key Individuals
Margaret Krome
Website http://www.michaelfieldsaginst.org/
Email rdoetch@MichaelFieldsAgInst.org
Business Phone 262-642-3303
Address
P.O. Box 990
City East Troy
Postal Code 53120
 
Middleton Farmers' Market
Mssion
Mid-May through mid-October, Thursdays, 8am to 1pm.
Location: Corner Greenway Blvd. and Deming Way – Middle of New Shopping Center, Middleton.
Contact: Tom Murphy,
Initiatives
Primary Tom Murphy
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (608) 872-2152
Address
City Middleton
Postal Code

Midwest Environmental Advocates
Mssion
Midwest Environmental Advocates (MEA) is the first environmental law center in Wisconsin. MEA is a legal and technical resource center for community groups across Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Upper Michigan, who are working for environmental justice. In addition to legal representation provided directly by MEA, we also operate as a clearinghouse to connect community groups to pro bono and low cost legal services provided by attorneys who have joined MEA's advocacy network.
Initiatives
Developing sample zoning ordinances for townships.
Primary Melissa K. Scanlan
Key Individuals
Andrew Hanson
Website http://www.midwestadvocates.org/
Email advocate@midwestadvocates.org
Business Phone (608) 251-5047
Address
702 East Johnson Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53703
 
Milwaukee Public Market
Mssion
The Milwaukee Public Market is home to 20 family-owned specialty food vendors, offering an array of fresh fruits, vegetables, cheese, fish meats and poultry. The aroma of hot coffee, soup and ethnic delicacies fill the air. Vibrant flowers, bakes goods, and confections beckon to you. The Palm Garden, a café-style seating area, is upstairs. In addition, the second level is home to a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen that was dedicated in loving memory to Wisconsin culinary icon Madame Liane Kuony.  There are an interesting selection of monthly cooking classes in Madame’s Kitchen. During the summer months there is also a farmers market outside on Saturday and Sundays from 8am-1pm.

Hours of operation:
Tuesday-Friday 10am-7pm
Saturday & Sunday 8am-5pm
Initiatives
Primary Brian O'Malley, Market Manager
Key Individuals
Website http://www.milwaukeepublicmarket.org/
Email info@milwaukeepublicmarket.org
Business Phone (414) 336-1111
Address
400 N. Water Street
City Milwaukee
Postal Code 53202

Mineral Point Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through mid-October, Saturdays, 8am to 11am.
Location: Watertower Park, Mineral Point.
Initiatives
Primary Jenny Bonde and Lois Federman
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (608) 967-2319 - Jenny;  (608) 987-2097 - Lois
Address
City Mineral Point
Postal Code
 
Monona Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Sundays, 9am to 1pm.
Location: Ahuska Park, next to Pier 37 Shopping Center, E. Broadway, Monona.
Special Events during the Market – see the farmers’ market website.
Initiatives
Primary Margie Welsh
Key Individuals
Website www.monona.com/farmersmarket
Email
Business Phone (608) 221-8091
Address
City Monona
Postal Code

Mount Horeb Farmers' Market
Mssion
Location and times to be determined - check Mt. Horeb Chamber of Commerce website.
Initiatives
Primary Julie Bergey
Key Individuals
Website http://www.trollway.com/
Email info@trollway.com
Business Phone (608) 437-5914
Address
City Mount Horeb
Postal Code
 
North Central Region SARE
Mssion
The USDA’s North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has awarded more than $30 million worth of competitive grants to farmers and ranchers, researchers, educators, public and private institutions, nonprofit groups, and others exploring sustainable agriculture in 12 states.

NCR-SARE Goals: Foster site-specific, integrated farming systems; satisfy human food and fiber needs; enhance environmental quality, natural resource conservation and the integration of on-farm and biological resources; enhance the quality of rural life and support owner-operated farms; protect human health and safety; and promote crop, livestock and enterprise diversity and the well-being of animals.

*Click on Wisconsin for State resources and organizations.
Initiatives
The NCR funds 50 to 75 cutting-edge projects every year in four grant programs:

Research and Education Grants — Awarded to multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, producers, educators and others exploring sustainable agriculture. NCR Call for Preproposals in April.

Farmer Rancher Grants — Awarded to farmers and ranchers for on-site projects in sustainable agriculture. NCR Call for Proposals in Fall 2005.

Professional Development Program Grants — Awarded for educational programs in sustainable agriculture practices and concepts for Extension, NRCS, and other agricultural professionals. NCR Call for Proposals in February.

Graduate Student Program Grants — Awarded to graduate students studying sustainable agriculture in the North Central Region. NCR Call for Proposals in December.

Other NCR Initiatives

State Strategic Plans — Since 1994, the AC has allocated money to each North Central Region land grant institution to help implement a strategic plan in sustainable agriculture. For example, one of Missouri’s state plans — Sustaining People through Agriculture — sponsored seminars, workshops and trade shows to boost rural communities and farm families.

State Sustainable Agriculture Conferences — The AC designated funds in 1996 to support state or multi-state meetings on sustainable agriculture. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan pooled funds to hold a conference entitled Profitable Farming in a Changing Environment, which featured speakers, discussion groups, poster sessions, and workshops.

Promoting Diversity — In 1997, the AC awarded four special Diversity Enhancement grants for Native American communities to implement sustainable practices and concepts on reservation lands. This initiative is intended to open doors and forge partnerships with Native American land grant universities. Future NCR-SARE initiatives will encourage participation of minority groups and under-served communities.
Primary
Key Individuals
Website http://www.sare.org/ncrsare
Email ncrsare@unl.edu
Business Phone 800-529-1342; (402) 472-7081
Address
13A Activities Building
1734 N. 34th Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
City Lincoln
Postal Code 68583-0840

Northside Farmers Market
Mssion
Sunday mornings, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sherman Plaza, corner of North Sherman and Northport Dr. in Madison
Initiatives
Primary Lisa Wiese
Key Individuals
Claudia Rosenbaum
Website
Email lisa_wiese@charter.net
Business Phone 608-242-8572
Address
City
Postal Code
 
Oregon Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Tuesdays, 2pm to 6pm.
Location: Waterman Triangle Park, center of town, Oregon.
To participate: Paul Maki, (608) 455-2803, paul@blueskiesfarm.com.
Initiatives
Primary Oregon Chamber of Commerce
Key Individuals
Website http://www.oregonfarmersmarket.com/
Email director@oregonwi.com
Business Phone (608) 835-3697
Address
City Oregon
Postal Code

Outta the Box
Mssion
Outta The Box provides unique educational experiences in creating livable spaces, edible landscaping and urban community building.
Initiatives
Outta The Box is actively working towards creating and implementing solutions for a 4 season urban harvest.  Cities offer enormous unique and creative opportunities for food production. Urban food production allows for increased bioregionally responsible farming and decreases energy costs associated with food transportation and packaging. Individual households working together cooperatively can produce an increasing percentage of their food needs while decreasing pollution and beautifying their living environment. Outta the Box offers educational classes about whole system urban food production and no-work gardening.
Primary Marlin Nissen and Randy Gates
Key Individuals
Website http://www.outtathebox.org/
Email info@outtathebox.org
Business Phone (608) 213-9405
Address
City
Postal Code
 
Research Education Action and Policy on Food Group (REAP)
Mssion
REAP Food Group’s mission is to build a regional food system that is healthful, just, and both environmentally and economically sustainable.  REAP connects producers, consumers, policy-makers, educators, businesses and organizations to nourish the links between land and table.
Initiatives
REAP’s major projects include:

Food for Thought Festival – an annual autumn celebration of our region’s food system and the many opportunities we have to eat from our foodshed.

Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas - a guide to Southern Wisconsin’s sustainable producers, farmers’ markets and local businesses who sell local foods.

Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Project – working with schools to “link the land with the lunchroom.”

Buy Fresh Buy Local – a campaign to encourage local restaurants and institutional food services to serve meals made from local farm products and to encourage diners to support eateries that do.
Primary Miriam Grunes, Executive Director
Key Individuals
Website http://www.reapfoodgroup.org/
Email info@reapfoodgroup.org
Business Phone (608) 294-1114
Address
P.O. Box 5632
City Madison
Postal Code 53705

Savanna Oaks Farmers' & Artisans' Market (Fall River)
Mssion
May 13th through October, Saturdays, 8am to Noon.
Location: Parking lot of Savanna Oaks Cultural Center, Hwy 16 and Poser Rd., Fall River.
Initiatives
Primary Michael Lubenau
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (920) 484-3874
Address
City Fall River
Postal Code
 
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin
Mssion
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, a private, nonprofit organization, distributes food to more than 300 charitable programs that feed the hungry in 16 southern Wisconsin counties. Those counties include Dane, Columbia, Rock, Jefferson, Sauk, Green, Lafayette, Juneau, Adams, Monroe, Vernon, Richland, Crawford, Dodge, Iowa and Grant.  Through food and fund donations from corporations, organizations, businesses, foundations and individuals, the food bank is able to distribute food to qualified charitable shelters, food pantries and meal sites.

Mission:  To feed the hungry in southern Wisconsin by acquiring food and related products and distributing them to qualified nonprofit organizations; to provide these programs with appropriate assistance; to act as a resource for information related to fighting hunger; and to develop partnerships with others who work on hunger issues.
Initiatives
Kids Cafe Program: Kids Cafe is a program of America’s Second Harvest and is one of the nation’s largest charitable meal and nutrition education programs exclusively for children in need. Second Harvest operates seven Kids Cafes in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program. They are located at the Nehemiah Development Corporation, Family Enhancement Teen Parent Place, Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Centro Hispano, Atwood Community Center, Vera Court Neighborhood Center and Salvation Army Darbo Drive Community Center. Each Kids Cafe is designed to meet the needs of the children living in the neighborhood. While no two programs are identical, each shares a common goal of providing a safe, respectful environment where youth can receive wholesome meals, nutrition education, academic and recreational activities. More
  
Direct Delivery/Drop Site Program: Food pantries and meal sites in distant counties often do not have personnel or appropriate vehicles to transport the quantity and types of food they need from our Madison warehouse. In 1999, the food bank implemented a program to deliver food directly to agencies in some counties and in 2002 it added three drop sites convenient for agency pick-ups. Today over 40 agencies in 10 outlying counties can better serve their communities with the help of this program, which has grown 550% since inception. An estimated 700,000 pounds of food will be delivered this year.
  
Mobile Pantry: In August 2003, Second Harvest rolled out the Mobile Pantry Program.  In partnership with a member agency, food from the Second Harvest warehouse is trucked to a neighborhood site at a prescheduled time for immediate distribution to residents. The program provides additional food to those in need and gives Second Harvest a valuable channel to increase distribution of perishable food items to ensure that good food will not go to waste. The Mobile Pantry distributed over 515,000 pounds of food last year and is serving hundreds of people with each scheduled visit.

Backpack Program: Backpacks filled with nutritious, easy-to-prepare foods provide nourishment on long weekends and other out-of-school times for children considered at risk of hunger.   In conjuction with a school district and a community agency that acquires food through Second Harvest, packs are filled with food and a teacher discretely hangs it in a child’s locker to be taken home on the last school day before the break.  The child returns the empty backpack on the next day back at school.  This is Second Harvest’s newest program to fight child hunger.  It is designed for small town/rural communities and currently serves over 60 children from 25 households in the Evansville School District .  
Primary Robert Mohelnitzky, Executive Director
Key Individuals
Website http://www.secondharvestmadison.org/
Email shfsw@secondharvest.org
Business Phone (608) 223-9121
Address
2802 Dairy Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53718

SHARE
Mssion
SHARE is a nonprofit food buying club that offers good, nutritious products at reduced cost through a volunteer-run, community-based distribution system. SHARE’s mission is to build and strengthen community through volunteer service.

Anyone who wants to save money on food and help their community can be a member of SHARE. There are no membership fees or eligibility requirements. As a member of SHARE, you can save up to 30–50% on many of the same products you would find in a supermarket. SHARE can offer amazing savings because SHARE volunteers help sort, package and distribute the food that SHARE buys
in bulk for over 20,000 people. SHARE offers a wide variety of frozen meats, fresh produce, other grocery items and club-size packages. You pick the food you want every month from SHARE's monthly order form. SHARE serves over 200 communities throughout Wisconsin, northern Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

SHARE encourages all forms of volunteer service. Volunteer with your local SHARE food distribution team. Give time to a local community group. Help out at church, a senior center, or in your neighborhood—however you want to make a difference in your community.

SHARE has more than a dozen food pick-up sites in Dane County, so more than likely we are neighbors! To find the SHARE pick-up site nearest you, call toll-free 1-800-548-2124 or visit our website.
Initiatives
Primary
Key Individuals
Website http://www.sharewi.org/
Email info@sharewi.org
Business Phone 1-800-548-2124; (262) 783-2500
Address
P.O. Box 403
City Butler
Postal Code 53007
 
Slow Food Madison
Mssion
Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to the revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; and to living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.
Initiatives
Primary Susan Boldt
Key Individuals
Mark Dohm
Tammy Lax
Website http://www.slowfood.com/
Email
Business Phone (608) 255-3029
Address
28 South Franklin Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53703

Slow Food WI Southeast
Mssion
Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to the revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; and to living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.
Initiatives
Farm Fres Atlas, SE WI. Farmer-Chef connection, which helps connects producers with chefs. Chef-Farmer cooking classes, using local ingredients and the farmers who grow it.  The class is held at the Waukesah County Technical College.  Chef's guide to using local, seasonal produce.
Primary Jack Kaestner
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone
Address
City
Postal Code
 
South Madison Farmers' Market
Mssion
Tuesdays, 2- 6 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m to 2 p.m. from May to October at the Labor Temple, 1602 South Park St., Madison

New Villlager Mall location for 2006 on Thursdays 2-6pm. Located on S. Park Street, just 2 blocks north of the Beltline (12/18).
Initiatives
Primary Robert Pierce, Market Manager
Key Individuals
Website http://www.southmadisonfarmersmarket.com/
Email
Business Phone (608) 358-5834
Address
City
Postal Code

Stoughton Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Fridays, 7am to 1pm.
Location: Plaza Shopping Center, 1050-1060 W. Main St., Business 50, Stoughton.
Vendor PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Initiatives
Primary Earl Krueger and Alicia Riel
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (920) 623-3425 - Earl; (608) 884-2785 - Alicia
Address
City Stoughton
Postal Code
 
Sun Prairie Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Saturdays, 7am to Noon.
Location: 300 E. Main, Municipal Parking Lot, Sun Prairie.
Vendor PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Initiatives
Primary Earl Krueger and Ron
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (920) 623-3425 - Earl; (608) 623-2270 - Ron
Address
City Sun Prairie
Postal Code

Sustain Dane
Mssion
Sustain Dane is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a community that deeply enjoys, cares for, and is sustained by its unique environment. We promote sustainability discussion courses, organize educational events, assist other sustainability organizations in their activities, and provide access to local sustainability-related news and resources.
Initiatives
Developing a program to look at food and health.  Looking at eco-tourism. A green guide for the visitor's bureau. Helping to find local food to source for conferences.
Primary Bryant Moroder
Key Individuals
Website http://www.sustaindane.org/
Email info@sustaindane.org
Business Phone (608) 819-0689
Address
222 South Hamilton Street, Suite 1
City Madison
Postal Code 53703
 
Town and Country RC&D, Inc.
Mssion
Town & Country serves the 13 counties of Southeastern Wisconsin, including Dane County.  The Town and Country RC&D mission is to optimize opportunities for sustainable economic growth, healthy communities, and a healthy environment in the Town & Country area through the support and coordination of our region’s agencies, municipalities and organizations. Efforts by Town and Country RC&D will help our area become a place where rural areas and urban centers are able to thrive and support each other to enhance the region’s economy, environment, and quality of life. 
Initiatives
Grazing Project, Community-owned Wind Harvest, Farm Fresh Atlas of SE Wisconsin, Camp and Center Lakes Rehabilitation District, Ag Tourism workshop and more.
Primary Diane Georgetta, Coordinator
Key Individuals
Linda Caruso
Ruth Johnson
Diane Herman
Doug Nelson
Greg David
Ron Doetch
Jack Kaestner
Website http://www.townandcountryrcd.org/
Email tacrcd@townandcountryrcd.org
Business Phone (262) 335-4855
Address
333 E. Washington St., Suite 3500, P.O. Box 2003 
City West Bend
Postal Code 53095

Friends of Troy Gardens
Mssion
The Friends of Troy Gardens is a non-profit organization responsible for the development and stewardship of 26 acres of open space known as Troy Gardens on Madison's north side. The land includes community gardens, youth and demonstration gardens, a CSA farm, woodland and prairie restoration, wheel chair accessible garden beds, an edible landscape, and nature trails. On five additional acres adjacent to open space area, the Madison Area Community Land Trust will be building 30 units of affordable cohousing.
Initiatives
Friends of Troy Gardens sponsors youth gardening programs, a high school horticulture job training program, gardening and farming workshops, a natural areas restoration stewards program, college internships, volunteer activities, and neighborhood-based social activities on the land.
Primary Sundee Wislow, Executive Director
Key Individuals
Website http://www.troygardens.org/
Email info@troygardens.org
Business Phone (608) 240-0409
Address
3601 Memorial Drive, Building 14, Room 171
City Madison
Postal Code 53704
 
UW-Madison Agroecology Program
Mssion
Agroecology is the study of agriculture as a human endeavor embedded in society and environment.  Our program is based on the idea that the most beneficent agriculture will emerge from broadly participatory discussions about agricultural practice.  Our program is dedicated to the training of students and the facilitation of informed discussion about new directions
in agriculture.

The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System approved the Agroecology MSc degree program on March 8, 2006! We will offer the full complement of core classes in the 2006-2007 academic year.
Initiatives
Primary Mrill Ingrahm
Key Individuals
Website http://www.agroecology.wisc.edu/
Email mingram@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 265-9023
Address
Agroecology Program
1545 Observatory Dr.
City Madison
Postal Code 53706

University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
Mssion
The UWCC mission is to study and promote cooperative action as a means of meeting the economic and social needs of people. The Center works in rural and urban settings in the United States and internationally. It develops, promotes, and coordinates educational programs, technical assistance and research on the cooperative form of business.
Initiatives
Primary Anne Reynolds
Key Individuals
Website http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/index.html
Email info@uwcc.wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 263-4775
Address
University of Wisconsin- Madison
230 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53706
 
UW-Madison Department of Food Science
Mssion
A food scientists' job is to ensure a safe and nutritious food supply. From quality control to new product development, Food Scientists work to ensure that our food supply meets the needs and desires of consumers. There are always new opportunities and continuing issues that require the training obtained by a Food Scientist. For example, current issues range from the new opportunities and challenges posed by genetically-modified organisms to satisfying the consumer's demands about the latest nutritional craze. However, it is probably the continuing issue of food safety, and the related issues of food quality, that constitutes the main role of Food Scientists.
Initiatives
Babcock Hall Dairy Store is located at 1605 Linden Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is one of the premiere dairy research centers in the United States. Building on Wisconsin's tradition as the nation's "Dairy State," the Center's research program focuses on cheese, dairy safety and quality, and dairy ingredients. Applications programs, which provide technical assistance to the dairy industry, follow the same areas and also include specialty cheese and economics.
Primary
Key Individuals
Website http://www.wisc.edu/foodsci
Email foodsci@facstaff.wisc.edu
Business Phone
Address
Department of Food Science
103 Babcock Hall
1605 Linden Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53706-1565

Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison
Mssion
The Nelson Institute is an interdisciplinary unit of UW-Madison where professors, students, and other professionals with wide-ranging backgrounds converge to address environmental problems. The heart of the institute is its faculty: roughly 150 professors representing more than 50 academic disciplines. The soul of the institute is its students, who come from throughout the country and around the world. The Nelson Institute administers a variety of interdisciplinary academic, research, and outreach programs focused on the environment. Students have the opportunity to pursue issues in food and sustainable agriculture through the Land Resources or Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development degree programs.
Initiatives
Primary Tom Sinclair
Key Individuals
Website http://www.ies.wisc.edu/
Email tksincla@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 263-5599
Address
University of Wisconsin- Madison
5 Science Hall
550 North Park Street
City Madison
Postal Code 53706
 
UW-Madison Department of Nutritional Sciences
Mssion
The mission of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at UW-Madison is to generate and disseminate knowledge regarding diet and nutrition to improve the health and economic development of current and future generations and foster an educated society.  Nutrition is the science in which biology, chemistry and social sciences meet to study and explain
food habits and customs, metabolic pathways for nutrients, and therapy for disease.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Nutritional Sciences Extension program offers a diverse mix of outreach education programs.  In cooperation with UW-Extension Family Living programs, the Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program (WNEP), and other partners, Extension specialists in Nutritional Sciences provide training and resources for statewide efforts to offer community-based nutrition education programs that are targeted to meet the nutrition education needs of individuals, families and communities throughout the state, with a special emphasis on meeting the needs of low-income families.  The Department also co-sponsors an annual statewide conference on "Current Issues in Nutrition and Aging" each September (see http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/conference).

The UW-Madison Nutritional Sciences Department offers undergraduate nutrition programs in dietetics, natural sciences, and international studies.  These nutrition programs are designed to 1) provide a quality university education with a balance of breadth, depth and interdisciplinary experiences that will produce a competent dietitian; 2) to provide the foundation knowledge and skills necessary for graduates to pursue career goals successfully; 3) to equip graduates with the ability to communicate and collaborate, solve problems and
apply critical thinking skills; and 4) to promote the development of personal attitudes that will stimulate life-long learning and professional growth, and help graduates to be contributing members of society.

The UW-Madison's Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences (IGPNS) is headquarted in this department. IGPNS provides graduate students with an understanding of basic nutritional principles as they apply to both humans and animals, to provide them with current knowledge in a specific area of emphasis, to make them aware of the multidisciplinary nature of nutrition research, and to direct them toward a successful career through their thesis and publications.
Initiatives
Primary Roger Sunde, Department Chair
Key Individuals
Website http://www.nutrisci.wisc.edu/
Email sunde@nutrisci.wisc.edu
Business Phone 608-262-4044
Address
Nutritional Sciences Building
1415 Linden Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53706

UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Mssion
UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning The department has three primary goals. First, we actively prepare qualified graduate students to become competent, creative and effective practicing planners. Second, we contribute to knowledge in the field of planning through scholarly and applied research. And third, we undertake professional planning activities and provide service in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Extension, a variety of public agencies, planning consulting firms and other private and non-profit sector organizations. The department teaches a course called URPL 590: Planning for Community Food Systems, and has produced many students interested in this emerging arena of planning.
Initiatives
Primary Jason Josvai, Department Administrator
Key Individuals
Website http://www.wisc.edu/urpl/
Email jrjosvai@wisc.edu
Business Phone (608) 262-1005
Address
112a Music Hall
925 Bascom Mall
City Madison
Postal Code 53706
 
Verona Area Farmers' Market
Mssion
Pending reorganization.
Initiatives
Primary Keri Smith or Ginny Schwartz, Verona Area Chamber of Commerce
Key Individuals
Website http://www.veronawi.com/
Email
Business Phone (608) 845-5777
Address
City
Postal Code

Waunakee Farmers' Market
Mssion
May through October, Wednesdays, 3pm to 6pm.
Location: Waun-A-Bowl Parking Lot, Hwy Q, Southside of Waunakee.
Initiatives
Primary Elizabeth Smith
Key Individuals
Website
Email
Business Phone (920) 787-3213
Address
City Waunakee
Postal Code
 
Weston Price - Madison Chapter
Mssion
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price. Dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism, it supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including: accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies
Initiatives
Allowing farmers to sell raw milk to consumers.
Primary Jenny DeLonay
Key Individuals
Website http://www.geocities.com/madison_wapf/
Email mdelonay@netzero.net
Business Phone
Address
City
Postal Code

Westside Community Market
Mssion
The Westside Community Market is a vendor-run market featuring locally raised and produced produce, fruits, meats, cheeses, baked goods, honey, and more. We are open on both Saturday and Wednesday.

Saturdays
When: Beginning April 22nd, concluding November 4th.
Where: Hill Farms DoT Building parking lot; at the corner of Segoe Road and Sheboygan Ave. - one half block from University Ave.
Time: 7AM to 2PM.

Wednesdays
When: Beginning May 3rd, concluding October 25th.
Where: Westgate Mall; located on the eastern side of the Mall parking lot at the corner of Odana Road and Segoe Road.
Time: 7AM to 2PM.
Initiatives
Primary Kay Jensen
Key Individuals
Website http://westsidecommunitymarket.org/
Email
Business Phone (608) 825-9531
Address
City
Postal Code
 
Nutrition and Physical Activity Program (Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services)
Mssion
Statewide Nutrition and Physical Activity Program addressing the obesity epidemic in Wisconsin.
Initiatives
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program:
Recent Federal legislation authorized funds for a program that offers free fruits and vegetables to students during the school day. Public Law 109-97 provides $6,000,000 to be distributed among six States: Utah, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Idaho. Within each State, 25 schools will participate. The purpose of the program is to increase fruit (both fresh and dried) and fresh vegetable consumption in elementary and secondary schools. The level of funds provided to any one school depends on the demographics of schools that are selected to participate in the program. DHFS is partnering with DPI and others to facilitate this program.

Got Dirt? Gardening Toolkit:
In an effort to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in Wisconsin, the Nutrition and Physical Activity program developed "Got Dirt?" - a program designed to assist with the implementation of school, community, and child care gardens. Never gardened? The toolkit is designed to provide simple, step-by-step plans for starting a garden. Even better…tips from garden experts and garden success stories from around Wisconsin are also included. To supplement the toolkit, you can attend a Got Dirt? Garden Training, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's Wisconsin Partnership Fund. Learn the fundamentals of starting a fruit and vegetable garden by attending a hands-on garden training. The Toolkit is available on the website or by contacting the program directly.

Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan:
The State Plan is a long range planning document focusing on the best ways to be active, eat well and prevent obesity.  A complete copy of the plan and an executive summary are available on the website.

Wisconsin 5-A-Day Coalition:
The Wisconsin 5-A-Day Coalition wants everyone in the State to eat more fruits and vegetables everyday. On the webpage you will find links to information which will help you learn more about the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables, and how easy it is to actually reach the goal!
Primary Mary Pesik, Program Coordinator
Key Individuals
Website http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/Health/physicalactivity/index.htm
Email pesikmj@dhfs.state.wi.us
Business Phone (608) 267-3694
Address
Wisconsin Division of Public Health
PO Box 2659
City Madison
Postal Code 53707

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
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The non-profit Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letter connects people and ideas from all walks of life to celebrate thought and culture from our state and explore how, together, we may address our common problems. 

Four core programs include: Wisconsin Idea (currently exploring the Furture of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin); art gallery in the Overture; Wisconsin People and Ideas (a quarterly magazine); and Academy Evenings (public forums).
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The Wisconsin Idea at the Wisconsin Academy is a public policy program that brings Wisconsin residents together with a diverse array of experts and stakeholders to find solutions to statewide problems. The program's current initiative, the Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin, is exploring the state’s potential for economic and sustainable growth through agriculture. This multiyear study will examine current status and trends in agriculture and rural life, explore constraints and opportunities, and develop specific action and policy recommendations leading to a more sustainable, diverse, and economically viable future for Wisconsin’s agriculture sector and rural communities.
Primary Wilda Nilsestuen, Project Director- Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin
Key Individuals
Website http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/
Email contact@wisconsinacademy.org
Business Phone (608) 263-1692
Address
1922 Old University Avenue
City Madison
Postal Code 53726
 
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Community and School Nutrition Program
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Staff members in Community and School Nutrition Teams provide nutrition information and program guidance to sponsors of the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, the Summer Food Service Program, the Special Milk Program, and the USDA Commodity Food Distribution Program. The Teams are also responsible for a variety of nutrition education initiatives that involve collaboration with other state agencies, UW-Extension, and regional and statewide child nutrition advocacy groups.


School food service staff contributes significantly to the health and well-being of children by providing nutritious meals.
Initiatives
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Pilot:
Recent Federal legislation authorized funds for a program that offers free fruits and vegetables to students during the school day. Public Law 109-97 provides $6,000,000 to be distributed among six States: Utah, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Idaho. Within each State, 25 schools will participate. The purpose of the program is to increase fruit (both fresh and dried) and fresh vegetable consumption in elementary and secondary schools. The level of funds provided to any one school depends on the demographics of schools that are selected to participate in the program.

School Wellness Policies:
With the passing of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, school districts participating in federally subsidized child nutrition programs (e.g., National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program and AfterSchool Snack Program) will be required to establish a local school wellness policy by the beginning of the 2006-07 school year.  Wi DPI has many resources on its website that may assist schools in creating such a policy.

Team Nutrition:
Team Nutrition is an integrated, behavior-based, comprehensive plan for promoting the nutritional health of the Nation's school children. The U.S. Department of Agriculture — Food and Nutrition Services developed Team Nutrition in response to the need to improve the nutritional quality of meals served in schools and the school nutrition environment.
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Website http://dpi.wi.gov/fns/
Email DPIFNS@dpi.state.wi.us
Business Phone (608) 266-3509
Address
P.O. Box 7841
City Madison
Postal Code 53707

Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation – Dane County Chapter
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Farm Bureau’s mission is: building on our strong rural values, our mission is to support successful and innovative farm families through legislative representation, public relations, leadership development and economic services to our members. 
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Projects include Ag in the classroom and Ag Essay contest, market basket survey, young farmers program and women’s program.
Primary Jolene Acker
Key Individuals
Website http://www.wfbf.com/county/default.aspx?officeList=592716
Email ackerlandllc@tds.net
Business Phone 608-249-2982
Address
5376 Farmco Drive
City Madison
Postal Code 53704
 
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
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Website http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/index.jsp
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Willy Street Co-op
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The primary mission of the Co-op is to operate a financially sound retail grocery store serving the near east side community of Madison. Cooperative philosophy and values are an essential part of our enterprise; therefore the Co-op will give equal consideration to the needs of all members and recognize the right of workers to participatory management and a humane work environment. Willy Street Co-op is primarily a natural foods grocery store and sells products from over 180 local farmers and producers. It assists other Madison food cooperatives and sponsors the Eastside Farmers' Market.
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Primary Anya Firszt, General Manager or Lynn Olson, Cooperative Services Manager
Key Individuals
Website http://www.willystreet.coop/
Email coop.services@willystreet.coop
Business Phone (608) 251-0884
Address
1221 Williamson St.
City Madison
Postal Code 53703
 
Wisconsin Food Security Consortium
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The Wisconsin Food Security Consortium, representing diverse sectors in the fight against hunger, is dedicated to the elimination of food insecurity in Wisconsin.  The Consortium will serve as a networking forum to develop and promote effective solutions through education, collaboration, new partnerships and public policy that measurably reduce hunger.
Initiatives
Primary Kadi Row, University of Wisconsin Extension & Patti Herrick, Department of Health and Family Services
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Website
Email kadi.row@uwex.edu; herriph@dhfs.state.wi.us
Business Phone (608) 265-2934 [Kadi]; (608) 266-3821 [Patti]
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Wisconsin Natural Food Associates
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Wisconsin Natural Food Associates is a non-profit educational organization that promotes organic farming and understanding of the importance of soil conservation, clean air, pure water, and human health. We provide information about the availability of products free of harmful chemicals, pesticides, and unnatural substances, and publish a quarterly bulletin.
Initiatives
Primary Esther Horsted
Key Individuals
Don Plier
Website wisconsinnaturalfoods.org
Email dplier@charter.net
Business Phone (608) 846-3287
Address
6616 County Road I
City Waunakee
Postal Code 53597-9774
 
Wisconsin Rural Partners
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Wisconsin Rural Partners' mission is “developing networks, leadership and voice for rural Wisconsin.” They build, train and support public-private collaborative partnerships to create and implement strategies that improve rural community life across Wisconsin.
Initiatives
Primary Dennis Deery, President
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Website http://www.wirural.org/
Email exec@wirural.org
Business Phone (608) 237-6367
Address
P.O. Box 257
City Lodi
Postal Code 53555

Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network
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We are a network of women in sustainable farming who share information and strategies for production, marketing, processing, farm safety, quality of life, women's issues, and entrepreneurship.
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Primary Inga Berg
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Website
Email iberg@mhtc.net
Business Phone (608) 929-7872
Address
1444 County Road I
City Highland
Postal Code 53543
 
Yahara Food Farm Coalition
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The Yahara Food Farm Coalition is for those in the greater Dane County region interested in reclaiming local democratic control over our food/farm system and recreating a bioregional fair trade agricultural network.
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To subscribe to the listserv send an email to <yaharafoodfarmcoalition-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.
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Website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yaharafoodfarmcoalition/
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