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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
EDIBLE
ALCHEMY CO-OP
(Chicago, local)
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
MAPLEWOOD
GARDENS
25 years of building soil; a certified-organic CSA grower in Elderon,
WI near Wittenberg
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)
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Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
for Stevens Point, Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau, Mosinee
Here's
a view looking east. The 5 acres ends more or less at the tree line,
where there's an enormous pile of field stones apparently picked from
the field by earlier farmers using this site. This ground hasn't
been tilled or plowed in decades, according to neighbors and everyone
else we've talked to. |
This
view is to the north from the same spot as the other picture. The power
poles are the property line, and the road you see is Highway 10.
Traffic-especially truck traffic--on that road should decrease quite a
bit when the Highway 10 "Bypass" boondoggle project is finished.
Looking north-east, you'd see that the land slopes down toward the
northeast gradually and uniformly, with a swale area from left to right
starting with those small poplar, willow and white pines seen on the
left about 300 feet away. |
There
is this small pond at the NW corner. It doesn't seem to outlet to the
small creek further to the east. The land where I'm standing is fairly
dry, even after the heavy rain of August. Actually the ground at the
top of the 5 acres is wetter in places than this spot here.
The
other day I disturbed a big Great Blue Heron, who took off in haste
before I even saw him/her standing there. I'm hoping we can improve
wildlife habitat on this site and attract more, even while working on
it as farm land. |
Looking
east, beyond this pond the ground is fairly wet, and then there's a
creek that drains the wetland across Highway 10, about 200 feet from
the edge of this pond. In the upper right corner is a small sign
marking the county snowmobile trail that runs thru this site as well.
The water flows toward the Wisc. River, whose sloughs and boat
landings are about 2-3 miles east of here. |
Our
10-10-10 renewable energy project. Mark McKee (right) helps Bobby get
this little wind turbine from Southwest Wind Power ready to put up.
Mark attends Mid-States Technical College in Wisc. Rapids, and heard
about the 10-10-10 activities. Thanks to Patience for steering him our
way. |
The
Air403 catching a lot of wind during the early November "midwest
hurricane." We were getting gusts over 40 MPH, which maxes out the
turbine and causes it to stall and come to a stop, for protection from
overspeed. Thanks to Alex Myers also of Mid-States Technical
College for a recent wind-power assessment on our site; we look forward
to reading it.
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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.
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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.
Modern agriculture: Where
our food really comes from. Click picture for the whole story.
Looking for a LOCAL
ALTERNATIVE?
Try searching on LOCAL
HARVEST for a local, more sustainable, fair-trade farmer near
you!
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