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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
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
NOW OFFERING
VEGGIE SHARES FOR 2010
1 to 18 weeks of fresh veggies
How does this "Community-Supported Agriculture" (CSA) work?
EMAIL US: biodiversecity(at)charter(dot)net
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 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, one week up to 18 weeks for the full
season.
Planting sweet corn under clear mulch. One week after May 15 planting the corn is about 1 inch tall under the plastic. | 
Clear mulch has perforations so that air exchange happens, and water can get in. | 
Main
part of the gardens so far (May 15th). There are a total of 4 patches
of ground for this year's farm shares. These pictures are at Raikowski
Farm, where we're planting everything. |
HERE'S
HOW to get your share for the coming season--poultry and meat shares
available NOW, no wait (click here).
(If
any of this is confusing, just call us at 715-344-2939, thanks.)
In 2010, we've teamed up with Raikowski Farm in Junction City, home of pastured beef, pork and poultry.
  
Raikowski
cows get no corn in their Chickens are free to
roam, and do. You can find us at Raikowski Farm, .
feed,
nor antibiotics.
Raikowski Farm.
at 4025 County H & O, Junction City
their farm store is open Sat's 9-4. | | |
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.
Getting ready for the 2010 season...
Right
now we're getting seed-starting trays ready, preparing a germinating
bench to get seeds germinating, and of course, ordering even more
seeds. This year the plan is to use two different hoop-houses to
make sure lots of plants get started right.
Plans are to get off to an earlier start than either last year or in 2008.
On
April 2nd, we've got 6,400 plants started. More or less. Planted
out in the gardens are 18 varieties of veggies, on April 7th.
This
hoop-house is only single layer film, and isn't going to be hooked up
to the electrical grid. So we'll be using this for cool-weather, early
plants that can take the colder nights. This is set up at Raikowski Farm, where we'll be growing veggies this season.
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This
hoop-house we put up in 2008, and has double layers of film. We can
run electricity into this one, so it will be used for warm-weather,
later plants that can't tolerate cold. |
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Some
people who helped us out in 2009...
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.
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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.
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ALTERNATIVE?
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