Tim Zander: Raising Organic Grain and Produce at Emerald Meadows

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Tim snipping the necks off garlic for his CSA and for sale at fall and winter markets.
This variety is Spanish Roja.
Huge heads!
Tim puts garlic in his CSA shares and sells it over the fall and winter at farmers' markets.
Tim built his house with the same uncle whose farm he worked on as a teen and young adult.
Fall starts waiting to go into the ground.
Some of Tim's tractors date to the 1960s. He takes pride in keeping them well maintained.
Tim raises about 150 acres of organic grain: corn, oats, soy beans.
Winters are spent working in his well-organized shop maintaining his equipment.
Tim fell in love with farming when he went to work at his uncle's farm at age 13.
The hoop house filled with tomato plants.
Heirloom tomatoes
Here come more beans. He grows about 6 acres of green beans and yellow wax beans each season.
Organic sweet corn. The ears are ready about 3 weeks after the tassels appear.
Nutmeg, the farm dog! Tim owns several plots of land. This is at his home farm.
Tim works on a mower with staffer Ben Bisbach.
This particular mower is no longer in production. Tim welds his own parts.
Ben is taking the mower to a nearby property where he'll use it to weed tomatoes.
Nutmeg wants to come along.
Staffer Matthew Anderson sanitizes CSA bins with a vinegar mixture.
CSA bins are colored depending on share size.
Keeping track of packing lists and chores.
Tim purchases old signs at farm auctions.
The next photos are at a 40-acre piece of land near his home farm.
Fall broccoli looking good!
Here come the Brussels!
Kale is king.
Tomatoes and peppers.
Melons
Zucchini growing strong
Beets and a lady bug
Ben pushing the mower along the tomatoes.
Adding additional twine along the trellised tomatoes.
Leeks, right
Tim spends his time maintaining farm equipment in winter.

Nutmeg the dog looking out from inside the farm truck

Meet Tim Zander of Emerald Meadows organic farm near Columbus, WI. Tim fell in love with farming as a young teen from the suburbs helping out at his uncle’s farm. He worked there through college and then bought his own land and started his own organic farm in the ’90s. Today, he grows about 150 acres of organic grain that goes to feed cows at organic dairies near Viroqua and Cashton. And he raises fruit and vegetables — about 20 acres’ worth that he sells via a CSA and at Farmers’ Markets — Eastside (Madison), Verona and Sun Prairie. Tim loves the combination of outdoor work, biology, and engineering that is farming.

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Your family food dollars are Little Green Soldiers for Good. Spend them directly with your local farmers via CSA or at the Madison farmers’ markets. Check out the Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas for restaurants featuring local food, farm listings, and farmers’ market info across Wisconsin, or Local Harvest for listings nationwide.

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5 Minutes on the Farm won a silver 2016 Excellence in Journalism award from the Milwaukee Press Club for Best Long Form Feature Story in the Audio category.