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Businesses and organizationsThe Farm Fresh Atlas would like to thank these businesses and organizations for their generous support of this guide. Please support them and tell them you saw them in the Farm Fresh Atlas. Basics Cooperative Basics Cooperative is a full-service grocery store. Our goal? To provide high quality natural and organic foods to our community. We also have a full line of health and beauty products, supplements and fair trade housewares. We also encourage sustainable, organic, agricultural practices and support local food suppliers. Cedar Grove Cheese Cheese tours, retail outlet and “living machine” water treatment. Fresh curd, specialty and organic cheese since 1878. One mile east of Hwy 23. Take Hwy B to Mill Rd. First business on left. Monday-Saturday mornings are best for tours. Please call ahead on Sundays. Crema Cafe
Eastside café offering a terrific view of Lake Monona. Crema Café serves a café breakfast and lunch featuring many locally farmed products. Come try an ArtiMelt with Farmer John’s Provolone or a Modern Egg Sandwich with New Century Farm Eggs. Bakery made from scratch featuring scones, cookies and more. We offer a full espresso menu and a variety of natural and organic snacks. Call about catering your next meeting or event. Family Farm Defenders Family Farm Defenders is a national grassroots organization committed to sustainable agriculture, rural justice, workers’ rights, consumer safety and food sovereignty. Through our Family Farmer Cheese Project we enable family farmers in southcentral Wisconsin to receive a just market price for their rBGH-free and organic milk. Farmers are able to stay on the land and consumers get a healthier product. It is our goal to expand this fair trade model to other locally grown and processed food items in the future. Fork & Spoon Café at RP’s Pasta Company Want it fresh? Come to the source where you can watch fresh pasta being made daily. Comforting fresh pasta dishes, grilled panini sandwiches and fresh baked focaccia bread—all served at our café. Located in the hip Williamson-Marquette neighborhood where free Wi-Fi is available! The owner, Peter Robertson, opened his pasta company in Madison 13 years ago and has since seen his company grow into the Midwest’s top gourmet pasta producer. He now wants you to experience our new café. With every dish you will taste the love he has for making quality fresh pasta. Greenbush Bar The Greenbush Bar is a little restaurant that thinks big. We proudly support our local farmers and farmers’ markets. Our menu highlights the finest local natural meat, free-range eggs and seasonal organic produce. Having been born in the old Italian Greenbush, I am proud to serve the same cuisine that was traditional to this neighborhood. We promote local, sustainable economics and return part of our profits to our local schools and food pantries. Harvest Restaurant Harvest was named “One of America’s Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants” by Gourmet magazine, October 2007. Harvest draws its inspiration from the traditions of American, French and Italian cuisines with a modern emphasis on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients. Our evolving menu takes advantage of the great variety of local and organic ingredients raised by this region’s farmers. Harvest is located right on the Capitol Square at 21 N. Pinckney. Proud Slow Food member. Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc. We make our cheese from milk produced on small family farms in southwestern Wisconsin. We are located in the historic town of Mineral Point. Our award-winning cheeses range from Colby, Monterey Jack and pepper jack to blues and sharp cheddars. Our 10-year cheddar took 1st place at the American Cheese Society Show in 2006. L’Etoile Restaurant & Café Soleil L’Etoile and Café Soleil’s seasonal menus are composed from local ingredients all year round. This remarkable feat is achieved through relationships with many small-scale farmers and by putting up ingredients throughout the growing season. Sustainability has been the focus at L’Etoile since being founded in 1976 and continues with the green café. L’Etoile’s award-winning wine list, personable service and elegant second-floor dining room overlooking Madison’s Capitol have made it a dining destination for over 30 years. Local Choice Farm Market Providing the Spring Green community and beyond with farm-identified, organic and natural, locally grown meats, specialty cheeses, fresh produce, dairy products, baked goods and much more. Local Choice Farm Market is a family-owned grocery store that prides itself on offering products with the health of the consumer in mind…free of chemicals, grown on healthy mineralized soils and from animals that are treated humanely. All your grocery and/or picnic needs in one easy-to-find location. Open daily! Local Fare A project of UW-Platteville’s Office of Continuing Education, Local Fare is dedicated to a regional vision for increasing access to local foods in southwestern Wisconsin including: partnerships between producers, businesses and community leaders; educational opportunities for farmers; and bringing producers together to share ideas and form a stronger regional network. Businesses growing and selling local agricultural products are important to the region’s quality of life and economic development! Contact us to get involved or for more information. Lombardino’s Lombardino’s serves seasonal Italian cuisine with menu selections changing bimonthly to reflect the seasons and to highlight the best available products. We use locally grown produce, eggs and meat combined with imported cheeses, olive oil and salami. We also travel to Italy annually and bring our findings back to you! We hope you enjoy our convivial and kitschy atmosphere and honest cooking. Located just west of UW-Madison, we are open Tuesday-Sunday at 5pm. Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC) MACSAC works to create a sustainable, just and local food system in southern Wisconsin by promoting and supporting CSA farms, and educating others about the benefits of local, sustainable eating. We operate the Partner Shares Program, which subsidizes CSA memberships for limited-income households. MACSAC’s annual events include the CSA Open House (March) and Bike the Barns (September). Our cookbook is From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce. Learn how to get involved: visit our website or contact us directly. Nature’s Bakery Cooperative Nature’s Bakery Cooperative is an eight-member, worker-owned collective that has been baking organic whole-grain breads for nearly 40 years. The bakers support organic farms, local sustainability, cooperatives and family-owned businesses, as well as feed our community nutritious organic whole grains at affordable prices. Please visit our bakery storefront on Willy St. for fresh bread, wheat-free granolas, veggie burgers, spinach calzones, sprouted wheat Essene and our delicious all-natural cookies! Organic Valley Family of Farms Taste the delicious and healthful difference that comes from producing foods in harmony with nature. Organic Valley’s certified organic dairy, juice, eggs, produce and soy are produced by the 1,200+ family farms that co-own our independent cooperative. We never use antibiotics or synthetic hormones and exceed federal organic farming standards for pasturing, animal well-being and domestic fair trade. By shipping milk from our farms to the nearest markets, we offer you and your family delicious, domestically produced organic products. Visit our website for coupons, recipes, organic resources and the store locations where you can buy our products. Paoli Local Foods, LLC Paoli Local Foods (PLF) is owned and operated by Ken & Sherrie Ruegsegger of Ruegsegger Farms Natural Meats. Famous for our 100% grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, eggs, pastured pork, lamb, veal, goat and organic produce. PLF also carries LOCAL products from over 80 other LOCAL organic farmers, bakers and gardeners: honey, canned goods, fish, popcorn, buffalo, ostrich, elk, grass-fed raw cheeses, milk, yogurt, etc. If it’s LOCAL food, it’s here. Physicians Plus Insurance Corp. Need another reason to include fresh produce in your diet? With the Physicians Plus Eat Healthy Rebate, our health plan members who purchase a fruit or vegetable share from any MACSAC farm can receive a rebate of up to $100/year for single contracts or $200/year for family contracts! Life is better when you eat plenty of locally grown, organic veggies. Physicians Plus just wants to make it even more rewarding. Visit our website for details. Potter’s Crackers Potter’s Crackers are whole-wheat crackers that perfectly complement fine food! They are produced from quality, natural, fresh ingredients so you get great grain and butter flavors in every bite. We use all organic ingredients that we source locally. Potter’s artisan crackers are mixed, rolled and baked fresh in our own cracker kitchen in Madison, and we feature different flavors as the seasons change. Our crackers are available in both bulk packaging for chefs and in retail packaging for stores. SavorWisconsin.com SavorWisconsin.com is an online directory and resource for consumers in Wisconsin and across the world to find food and agricultural products and services from the state of Wisconsin. SavorWisconsin.com offers you the most advanced search capabilities to find your favorite Wisconsin products and the ability to find new favorites! SavorWisconsin.com invites you to savor the food and agricultural products from this great state! Slow Food Madison Slow Food Madison sponsors informal gatherings, educational events and projects that link pleasure and food with awareness and responsibility. In 2008 we’re planning to repeat our cultural tour of cheese makers, offer tastings at Troy Gardens, lunch at MATC with the culinary students, picnic at our Celebrate Autumn at Crawford Farm, and travel to Slow Food Nation and Terra Madre, the World Meeting of Food Communities. Sugar River Dairy Sugar River Dairy is a family-owned and -operated Grade A dairy plant that produces small-batch homestead yogurt using milk from a local dairy farm. Our milk comes from cows that are humanely treated, outside daily and rBST free. Our yogurt is non-homogenized (cream line) and contains no additives, stabilizers or high fructose corn syrup. Real, honest and great tasting yogurt. Visits by appointment only. Trillium Natural Foods Community Co-op Trillium Natural Foods is western Dane County’s community-based grocery co-op, offering a well-rounded selection of dairy, produce, grocery, frozen, body care and ecologically friendly household products and nutritional supplements. Our staff works with area growers and producers to provide locally and sustainably grown and produced products. We have a large number of organic options including foods for those with dietary restrictions. Trillium provides exceptional personalized customer service! Open daily. Vernon Vineyards Wisconsin winery producing wine from Wisconsin grapes grown in Vernon County. Free tasting Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, May through December. Beautiful view overlooking Upper Newton Valley is the setting for a fun afternoon for relaxing and sipping wine. Pick your own grapes in season. Viroqua Food Co-op VFC prides itself on offering a one-stop shopping experience with a commitment to natural foods and superior customer service. We are a full-service grocery store emphasizing organic and local foods and products. Enjoy our deli serving 3 meals a day from the hot bar, soup and salad bar, fresh baked goods and espresso bar. Open daily from 7am-8pm. The Washington Hotel, Restaurant & Culinary School The kitchen uses island produce and lake fish to create meals for the historic dining room, parlor and porch. The signature brick oven turns out bread and pizzas crafted from island-grown wheat. Meals range from artful salads to glorious six-course dinners. With an emphasis on local and organic ingredients, professional chefs teach hands-on classes on culinary techniques such as bread baking, fish cookery and beer and wine appreciation. Hotel features fine organic linens on beds handcrafted from island timber. Williamson Street Grocery Co-op Willy Street Co-op is Madison’s full-service grocery cooperative specializing in locally produced and organic food. Enjoy our in-house deli and bakery, delicious soup and salad bar, full line of grocery products, juice and coffee bar, amazing produce selection and wide variety of health and beauty products. Open 7:30am-9:30pm daily. Anyone can shop, anyone can join! Wisconsin Farmers Union Kamp Kenwood WFU Kamp Kenwood is supported in part by the Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation, whose projects and programs for all ages foster family farming, rural life and public education on the important role of cooperatives and agriculture in society. Since the 1930s, WFU summer camps have delivered a unique blend of cooperative philosophy, leadership development and social justice education to rural and urban kids, while building awareness of the value of family farms and strong communities. Wisconsin River Meats Wisconsin River Meats is a meat processing business owned by the John Hamm and David Mauer families. WRM specializes in Wisconsin sausage and sells over 40 varieties made right here, including landjaegers, summer sausages, snack sticks, jerky, bratwurst, ham, bacon and others. We sell fresh meat, including beef and pork that we purchase from local farmers. We also process beef, pork, lamb, bison, elk and deer for area producers. WRM also offers pig roasts and catering.
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The Farm Fresh Atlas is brought to you by REAP Food Group, the Dane County Farmers' Market, the Friends of the Dane County Farmers' Market, and the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. The 2008 Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas is generously underwritten by Heartland Credit Union. |
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