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Sponsors

Many thanks to our generous 2012 sponsors:

Champion Level:

WI Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

UWEX Program Innovation Fund

     

Supporter Level:

St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development

Wisconsin Grocers Association

Wisconsin Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program

Friends Level:

Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)

WLFN Mission & Vision

The Wisconsin Local Food Network engages, connects, and empowers local, regional, and state organizations and individuals to build sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems.

We envision vibrant local and regional food systems in Wisconsin that nourish the health and well-being of Wisconsin communities, conserve and enhance the natural resource base, and provide economic livelihood for a wide diversity of sustainable Wisconsin farmers and food businesses.

Our latest news

  • Scaling Up Local Foods & Tapping the Institutional Market
  • Essay: A Community Food System based in expressive and instrumental values and actions.
  • Equitable Strategies for Growing Urban Agriculture (Webinar & Resources)
  • Bill McKibben’s Personal Message to the WLFN
  • Food Policy Councils

Interested in writing a guest blog post?

We welcome guest article submissions that are related to local food system development and sustainable agriculture communities. Contact us for more information!

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Wendell Berry “The Pleasure of Eating” an excerpt

"A significant part of the pleasure of eating is one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. The pleasure of eating, then, may be the best available standard of our health. Eating with the fullest pleasure -pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance- is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude."
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