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Local Food Features
Promoting Wisconsin Farms, Food and Flavor - Requesting local food literally puts local farms on the table. Below are several events featuring local food and examples of menus that incorporate local food into them. This simple request not only produced great meals, but redirected thousands of dollars into local farms and communities.

Wisconsin Foodie

Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market Breakfast

See Chef Jack and others local chefs

Wisconsin Cheese Originals

November 9th -10th

Including Grass Based Cheese Panel

Saturday, September 29, 2012

3:30 - 7:00 p.m.

NuGenesis Farm

2nd Annual Harvest For Your Health

Event Information

WI Sheep and Wool Festival

September 7 -9 2012

Event Information

Sunday 9th, 12:30

Cooking Demonstration

Event Information

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Saturday, September 15 2012

3rd Annual Farm Fresh Atlas Dinner of SE Wisconsin

Event Information

Fondy Farm Feast

Sunday, August 26, 2012

4:00 - Twilight

Event Information

Milwaukee County Winter Farmers Market

April 14th Breakfast 2012

"Farm Fresh Atlas South East Wisconsin Fund Raiser Dinner"

October 22nd, 2011

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"NORTH WOODS FÊTE"

September 9, 2011

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"Wisconsin Lamb and Sheep Festival"

September 9-11th, 2011

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May 18th

New Berlin Public Library

Talk on Local Food

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Raising Chicken's 101 March 25th

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Permaculture Design Workshop March 25 - 27th

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Farm Fresh Market Breakfast

Saturday, March 26th

At the Milwaukee County Winter Farmers’ Market

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Wisconsin Farmers Market Association

January 28th and 29th 2011

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Farmers Market Marketing

February 5th 2011

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Thursday October 28th 2010

Grass Based Dairy Tasting

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Friday October 29th 2010

Pasture Dairy Effects

UW Madison

Friends of NuGenesis Farm

Food As Medicine

NRCS 75th Birthday Celebration

UW Memorial Union - Madison

September 29th, 2010

Reception/Menu/Farmer Showcase

Farm Fresh Atlas SE Wisconsin Fund Raiser

Oconomowoc Lake Club

September 11th, 2010

Program, Farms and Menu

Wisconsin Gardener

Our very own Chef Jack was on television!

Wisconsin Gardener which aired Sunday, April 25th, on Wisconsin Public

Television Channel 10

Winter Market Breakfast

Milwaukee County Winter Farmers Market

March 27th Chef's Breakfast

Farm Market Marketing for Farmers

February 6th, 2010 at Oconomowoc Lake Club

Southeast Grazing Network Beef Meeting

February 11th, 2010 at Oconomowoc Lake Club

10am - 3pm

Town and Country RC&D Annual Meeting

February 11th, 2010 at Oconomowoc Lake Club

6:00 - 9:00pm

Post Harvest Vegetable Handling Workshop
January 6th, 2010 at Oconomowoc Lake Club
Brochure

Local Food Event Planning Guide
This event planning guide will walk you through the process of planning an event featuring locally grown food.
Guide - p df file

OLC Chefs at the Wisconsin Lamb and Sheep Festival
September 13, 2009
For a cooking Demo
Recipes
Website

Tall Pines Conservancy Annual Fall Harvest Celebration
Saturday, October 17, 2009
To help TPC raise funds for the preservation of natural areas and open spaces.

Earth Day 2009 Celebration
Featuring local food including pastured raised meats and cheeses
Meet several of "our farmers"
Menu

Buy Local Food chicken-of-the-woods mushroom
February 6, 2009
Four Regional Workshops
Oconomowoc Lake Club
Brochure

Town and Country RC&D Annual Meeting
February 12, 2009
Oconomowoc Lake Club
Invitation

Going Green - Sustainable Communities and Farms
September 11-12, 2008
Wisconsin Association of RC&Ds 2008 Annual Meeting
Breakout session featuring Chef Jack Kaestner and Laura Payne presenting "Ecological and Culinary Benefits of Grazing"

Wisconsin Artisan Cheese Makers and Chefs
Milwaukee Public Market Mooo & Brew Event - May 1, 2008
Living on the Wedge, Madison - May 24, 2006

Town and Country RC&D Annual Meeting
February 7, 2008
Original menu pdf
Original list of farms pdf

Farmer Chef Events/ Ecotrust
2007-2008
L ink to more information

Oconomowoc Lake Club Members' Cooking Classes
November 10th, 2007: Featuring Prairie Hill Farm - Cooking pastured-grass fed beef, chicken, eggs and Heirloom apple tasting.
Original announcement
January 26, 2008: Featuring Fountain Prairie Farm - Local favorites and cooking pastured-grass fed Highland beef and natural pork.
Original announcement

A Chefs' Tasting Dinner To Promote WI Homegrown Lunch
June 24, 2007
Original announcement
Original Chefs Dinner WI Homegrown Lunch brochure pdf

SARE National Conference
August 15-17, 2006
Original Menu pdf

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin
June 2006
Original Menu pdf
Original list of farms pdf

Turtle Valley Wildlife Restoration Celebration
June 16, 2004
Turtle Valley Invitation pdf
Food with thought original pdf

<Chef Jack talking with one of our local producers at an event for our members to mingle with the people who grew their food.