Sweet Corn and Sweet Soil at Crossroads Community Farm

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

Crossroads Community Farm is in the Township of Cross Plains, about 16 miles southwest of downtown Madison.
Crossroads' packing shed. The solar array generates at least 80 percent of the electricity required to run the farm.
Produce is moved into coolers and packed into produce boxes inside the packing shed.
Cassie waters lettuce transplants. These are the last transplants of the season.
These plants are loaded with bell peppers.
Farm work = lots of picking and bending and lifting 20- to 40-pound crates of produce.
Farmworker Sara O'Donnell. This is her third season working at CSA farms.
Cassie performs field work AND office work. She likes the variety.
Healthy plants heavy with tomatoes. Late in the season, the foliage dies back.
Mike said they're picking a tremendous amount of tomatoes.
Cassie vends every Saturday at the Westside Community Market. She's served as president of the market's board for the past 9 years.
A grocery cart = a vehicle for social change!
Marai sweet corn seed, super sweet. That's why the kernels are so small. Sugar, not starch.
Brussels sprouts on the way!
Beehives/pollinators are typical on produce farms. Crossroads raises 45 types of veggies. That's a lot of flowering plants, all season long!
Crossroads farm workers now make a living wage, and all the produce they want.
Mike calls their work "back breaking" day in, day out. Most of Crossroads' paid farmworkers are in their 20s.
Equipment shed
Row cover helps to prevent insect damage.
Lettuces growing strong.
Mud, organic veggies, and a sunny, cool day = happy pigs!
Onions and garlic drying in the hoophouse.
Peppers in the pack shed.
These women are weighing and packing potatoes. They are "Dirty Hand" shares, or worker shares who work 4 hours a week in exchange for CSA shares.

Cassie watering transplants outside greenhouse

Cassie in the back of Crossroads' truck talking to a farmers market customer.

Onions and garlic drying in the hoophouse

Workers packing potatoes into bags in packing shed

Meet Mike and Cassie Noltnerwyss, the successful young farmers at Crossroads Community Farm near Cross Plains, Wisc. For details about their farm practices, please see the posts with their quotes at 5 Minutes on the Farm on Facebook.

Crossroads will be the lunch stop on the 10th annual Bike the Barns, Sunday, Sept. 18. Registration is still open, here.

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