Madison’s venue and art gallery Arts + Literature Laboratory has a unique program to support Madison artists. Much like Community Supported Agriculture programs, in which shareholders invest in a local farm and receive shares of fruits and vegetables, the CSArt program at the Arts and Literature Lab invites shareholders to invest directly in a group […]
Katy Dickson: Coming Home to Christensen’s Farm
Katy Dickson was 6 months pregnant, finishing grad school in elementary education and teaching on an Indian reservation in New Mexico, when she realized she wanted to move home to Wisconsin and grow organic food. After spending about 12 years living and working across the U.S. and serving in the Peace Corps in Nepal., she ended […]
Plowshares and Prairie Farm: Balancing Environmental Work and Farming
Chelsea Chandler, 31, and Scott Laeser, 35, are finishing up their fifth season at Plowshares & Prairie Farm near Argyle, Wisc. They met and fell in love just as Chelsea was finishing up grad school at Yale University in environmental policy. Scott had gone to Yale years before in the same program, and was already […]
Vitruvian Farms: Vibrant Community, Beauty, and Restaurant Partnership...
Farmers Tommy Stauffer and Shawn Kuhn, both 28, started their successful microgreens and produce farm while both still students at UW Madison. Neither majored in anything having to do with farming. They had no growing experience, no idea what they were doing, just the desire to live a passionate, fulfilled life doing meaningful work. “We […]
Nourishing Friends and Family at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm
Lauren and Kyle Rudersdorf are in their fifth season of farming (they married in season two!) at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm between Evansville and Broadhead, Wisc. They lease 4 acres on the farm where Lauren grew up. The two graduated from UW Madison during the recession. The scarcity of jobs and the attractiveness of farming inspired […]
Bethanee Wright: Manifesting Her Farming Dream at Winterfell Acres
Bethanee Wright, 26, grew up in Milwaukee. Her parents owned a hardware store. “I could sell a hammer, but I didn’t learn anything particularly helpful for farming,” she recalls. While an undergrad at UW Madison, she started interning at FairShare CSA Coalition, where she caught the farming bug. Dennis Fiser, a FairShare staffer at the […]
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