Our Vision

Imagine riding your bike past young farmers herding their cows to the barn for milking, while community gardeners weed their squash. You pass the restored wetland as spellbound fifth graders watch a heron fishing. You arrive at the green built community center, park your bike in the shed, and find a community potluck underway. After a delicious dinner of (very) locally grown food, you head over to the performance hall for some Irish music.

Are you in Germany, Holland, or Denmark? No! You're in Wisconsin!

Learn more about our dream and how you can help make it a reality...

Center for Organic Agriculture

• An incubator program to train the next generation of farmers in row crops, dairy, and orcharding
• CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm using the methods described in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma
• Courses for the public in organic gardening, cheese-making, canning and preserving food, keeping chickens, spinning and knitting, and more
• Courses for farmers in converting to organics, raising sheep and goats, growing fruits, niche marketing, making a business plan, and more
• Matching service for new and retiring farmers
• Community gathering room available to the public for weddings, potlucks, dances, films, etc.
• Crops, pastures and orchards
• Solar, wind and biomass energy
• Living Machine for wastewater treatment and greywater system

Community Gardens - 45 acres of garden plots with bathrooms, tool sheds, play area and picnic tables incorporates 30 acres currently used by Hmong gardeners

Plots of SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) Farmers - 5 acres available for long term lease to local market growers.

Public Park with restored wetlands and prairie

Bike and Hike Path connecting to the Capital City Trail, which connects to Badger States, Ince Age and Military Ridge Trails for extended bicycle travel.