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Where our page hits are coming from Globally

LOCAL FOOD, SUSTAINABILITY, ORGANIC GROWING ETC.
(Including links to some local CSA premium growers.)

ASSOCIATION OF DOWNTOWN BUSINESS
(Stevens Point, WI. Buy Local) 
CENTRAL WI NEWS FEED
Twitter feed from Central WI.
CULTURE CHANGE
Jan Lundberg's site.
DEEPLY ROOTED
Intentional community in  Northcentral WI striving for sustainable life.
DILL PICKLE CO-OP (Chicago)
Chicago finally gets a food co-op.
DIVINITY DINING (StevensPt)
Brand-new catering company, aimingto use local-food-coming early 2010.
ECO-MUNICIPALITIES WISCONSIN
Sustainability at the local level
EMY J's CAFE & CAFE ESPRESSO
Stevens Point WI--They Walk the Walk on buying local food.
FARMSHED
Local food movement in Central WI-maintains list of local CSA farms, some without websites.
FRIENDS OF SLOW MONEY
Tiny donations adding up to a new paradigm in investing. Why not add yours to the pot?
GROWING POWER
Urban farming in Milwaukee & Chicago.
KRISTIN"S RIVERWALK
Stevens Point, WI -- A restaurant that buys local produce 
MALEK STEWARDSHIP FARM
Local to Stevens Point WI Area a Community Supported Agriculture Farm. Cert. Organic.
MACSAC
Madison (WI) Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY
The grandparent of renewable energy fairs in the midwest...

(more below Twitter feed)



MICHAEL FIELDS AG INSTITUTE
(East Troy, WI)
MOONDANCE MEADOWS
(Scandinavia, WI)
MOONSHADOW FARM
(An enormous CSA farm at Wausau, WI)
ONE-STRAW BLOG
(Southern Wisc.-micro-eco farming blog, looks useful)
ORION GRASSROOTS NETWORK
(Nationwide-there may be a group near you.)
RAIKOWSKI FARM
(Junction City, WI. Pasture-raised beef, pork, poultry, and turkeys. Email them for monthly newsletter)
SHADY BLUE ACRES
(Richland Center, WI. They also offer shares of canned goods!)
SLOW MONEY ALLIANCE  
Woody Tasch's paradigm shift in money and investing  for food, farms, and fertility.

STEVENS POINT -Association of Downtown Business
STONEY ACRES FARM
(This Athens, WI CSA farm has grown rapidly in # of households served.)
SUNNY SKY FARM
(One of the earliest CSAs in Stevens Point area, now the biggest and  best.)
SUSTAINABLE AG IN COMMUNITIES (SACS)
(UW-Stevens Point student sust. agriculture organization)

STUDENTS FOR  SUST. COMMUNITIES 
(UW-Stevens Point student grp.)
 
SUSTAINABLE POINT
(Stevens Point WI eco-municipality)
SUSTAINABLE STOCKTON 
(Similar to Stevens Point's eco-municipality effort, and close, too!)
UWSP DINING SERVICE
A university dining service committed to local food.

WHITEFEATHER ORGANICS
(An excellent CSA farm east of Stevens Point WI.)


PEAK OIL PROBLEM 

ENERGY BULLETIN
(Collection of news on peak oil, agriculture, society etc.)

THE OIL DRUM
(News on peak oil more from industry insider types.)
PEAK OIL SITE
Association for the Study of Peak Oil



DOOM
Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

THE AUTOMATIC EARTH
(Analysis of global financial crisis)
ENERGY SHORTAGE
(Massive shortages in 100 areas. Watch the Olduvai Cliff event in realtime)
KUNSTLER
James Howard Kunstler, Dean of the School of Doom. 
SHADOW GOVERNMENT STATS
(Analysis of global financial crisis and statistics with a bit more truthiness)



NOW OFFERING VEGGIE SHARES FOR 2010
How does this service work?

Wisconsin Rapids folks:
Meeting Weds. Feb. 17 6-8 p.m.
to discuss how the veggie shares will work.
HEART OF WISCONSIN, 1120 Lincoln St. Wisc. Rapids.

Marshfield folks:
Meeting Mon. Feb. 15 6-7:30 p.m.
to discuss how the veggie shares will work.
BeeBee Forum Room, MARSHFIELD LIBRARY,
211 E. Second Street, Marshfield (715) 387-8494

Stevens Point people:
Meeting Weds. Mar. 3 6:30-8:00 p.m.
to discuss how the veggie shares will work.
KRISTIN's RIVERWALK (back room),
1140 Clark St. (cor. Clark & Strongs)  Stevens Pt. (715) 341-8178

Wisconsin Rapids folks:
Chat with us in person at Lincoln High's AG DAY,
Sunday April 11 2010 8:30-1:30. More details later.


or... READ ON!


During the 2010 growing season we will plant, tend and harvest farm-fresh produce for your household, and deliver it to a convenient delivery point near your home (or to your home if you are willing to offer a drop-off point).

If you want to be kept updated by e-mail, please request to be on our
E-MAIL LIST.

Market area:  Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point and Wausau areas.

Your produce will be grown using natural, organic methods without applications of pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers.  We will be maintaining soil fertility and organic matter using composts, cover crops and "green manure."  With this kind of growing, we are aiming to be "sustainable." However, we're not certified organic.

(There's no deadline to sign up for this plan.  It will be open to new customers through the whole season.)  


For a pre-paid "subscription" cost of $20 per week you will get a weekly basket of produce for as many weeks as you want, up to 18 weeks for the full season.

HERE'S HOW to get your share for the coming season--poultry and meat shares available NOW, no wait.
(If any of this is confusing, just call us at 715-344-2939, thanks.)

Once again this coming year, we're offering worker shares. 50 hours worth of work gets you full season share, or 25 hours gets you a half-season share. Click "Work Share" if you want this option.


Some people who helped us out in 2009...
Time to put up some pictures for 2010 isn't it?


Student Involvement
& Employment Office (UWSP)
"Picking for poverty" day @ Biodiversecity's field

Bobby G. together with students organized by Student Involvement and Employment Office at UWSP, from left Kirsten, Elise, and Bethany. Photo by Nicole Bailey of SIEO.
These students came out to the field used by Biodiversecity to  harvest food to take directly to the food pantry program Operation Bootstrap in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  
For Biodiversecity, it was our 10th donation of food to Bootstrap for the 2009 season. We plan to do this again also in 2010.



Members of the Boys' and Girls' Club in Stevens Point 
came out for a visit suggested by intern Katie Kloth
(in center of photo). From left: Dennis, Donna, Jason,
Katie, Roshanda and Boys' and Girls' Club director Carie Winn.


 

 Katie Kloth is working as an             Jarad & Tim.Weeding.
intern with us this summer,                  
in a program set up by John Sheffy
of the GEM program at
UW-Stevens Point
                         

 Jackie hand-planted peas on a        Ashley, with lettuce
cold day in March. There was a
little snow still on the ground.


Need more information? Please E-MAIL US.










Restaurants, taverns: Please take our online Local Food Interest Survey! CLICK HERE

LOCAL FARMER'S BARN LOST IN FIRE-CLICK HERE TO HELP HER OUT

Laura Nolan, who was part of  Biodiversecity in the 2008 season, lost her barn this week to an unexplained fire.



Interested in forming a land-owning
co-operative?
Click here.




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FAIR TRADE FOOD
IN THE USA?

Fresh Florida-grown
Tomatoes?

You might want to re-think that, after reading Gourmet magazine's story on today's slavery among Florida tomato-pickers.

Coalition
of Immokalee
Workers

Grassroots workers organization that's working for a better life for Florida's tomato pickers.  A fair trade thing.

CATA - Farmhands in South Jersey and eastern PA mushroom region.



M
odern agriculture: Where our food really comes from.


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BioDiverseCity, LLC, 517 Fieldcrest Avenue Stevens Point WI 54481
Telephone:  (715) 344-2939 or (715) 432-5262 or  E-mail: biodiversecity (at) charter.net