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Name: Natural Path Sanctuary Walking Tour with NPS Cemeterian Dustin Duve
Start: 2024-05-21T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-05-21T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Farley Center

Cocktail Hour with Farley Center

bees, celebration, community, culture, environmental, farming, food, friendship, fun, honey, sustainable farming

3/28/24

Farley Center has partnered once again with Palette Bar and Grill on a cocktail using sustainably farmed honey from the Farley Center. Their Spring menu will once again feature the Farley Fly-By cocktail!

Join us on March 28th for a cocktail hour from 4-6pm where you will get to try our Farley Fly-by (you can also order without alcohol) and learn about the Farley Center, their beekeeping program, and sustainable practices.

Join us in giving back during this year’s event! With every purchase of Farley Fly-Bys, a portion of sales will go towards supporting Farley Center’s Beekeeping Program!

Learn more about the Farley Center beekeepers at
http://farleycenter.org/programsevents/beekeepers/

Making a Planet-Friendly Farm Bill

climate change, culture, environmental, farming, food, health, justice, Peace, sustainable farming

Feb. 12, 2024

Making a Planet-Friendly Farm Bill

The federal Farm Bill isn’t just vitally important to farmers, it impacts every American community—urban, suburban and rural. This massive legislation shapes national policies dealing with everything from nutrition and hunger to climate change and natural resource conservation. Hear how a new Farm Bill can be turned into a force promoting agricultural practices that are good for farmers, the land, air and water quality, consumers, and future prospects for life on our planet. Find out what you can do to influence what the next Farm Bill ends up looking like.

SPEAKERS

Darin Von Ruden is a third-generation dairy farmer who is president of Wisconsin Farmers Union. Darin has been active with Farmers Union at the local, state and national levels and is a seven-time recipient of the Silver Star Award, National Farmers Union’s highest recognition of membership development. He and his wife JoAnn live in Westby and transitioned the farm to the fourth generation when their son Brett purchased the machinery and 50-cow dairy herd.

Margaret Krome has spent over 30 years developing federal and state programs and policies supporting sustainable agriculture. Margaret’s interest in agriculture dates back to her childhood, as the grandchild of a Florida avocado and citrus grower. She is policy program director at Michael Fields Agriculture Institute and previously worked for the Wisconsin Rural Development Center.

Mike McCabe is a member of a team promoting regenerative agriculture for the climate action group 350 Wisconsin. Mike got his start milking cows and working the land on his family’s farm before going on to lead the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign for nearly two decades and establish the grassroots group Blue Jean Nation. During a two-year stint in the Peace Corps, he served as an agriculture education adviser in the West African country of Mali.

HOSTED BY
Farley Center for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability
Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
Brix Cider
Blue Jean Nation
350 Wisconsin

Farley Center Summer Market featuring the Natural Path Sanctuary

art, celebration, community, culture, environmental, farm tour, farming, food, food festival, friendship, fun, music, sustainable farming

June 8, 2024, 3-6:30 p.m.

Farley Center Summer Market with a Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Tour with Director Shedd Farley at 4:00

Thank you to Visit Verona for co-sponsoring the summer markets with the Farley Center!

Come join us for our first Farley Center Summer Market in the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA) at the Farley Center). Purchcase some fresh vegetables, arts & crafts, food and gift items, listen to music and eat dinner at the summer market!

We are featuring our Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) with a 4:00 tour with Director Shedd Farley.

For interested vendors or community non-profits who want to participate, please e-mail for more information. We have much space available at this time!

MUSICIANS:

3:00-5:00 Leafy Greens – Lisa Johnson and Ben Doran

5:00-6:30 Farley Center Ukes – Katrina, Billy G.Rae, Tim & Caroline

VENDORS: (Updated as we add vendors)

Farley Center Beekeepers/Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten

The Wander Parlour/Katrina Krueger

Linda Josheff (Arts, Crafts and Collectibles)

Los Abuelos Farley Farm/Juan Gonzales – FC Farmer

Jennica Skoug – FC Farmer

Rockin Highlands Farms/Greg and Reeny Reynolds

Merle’s Midwest Market./Peggy Kalscheur

Hemp Haven Farms, LLC/Joni Sayers

Blue Butterfly Healing & Organics /Becky Jo

Green Box Compost/Esai Ponce

Rainbow Fleece Farm/Patty Reed

Bellebrook Botanicals/Monica Pastrana

Farley Center Beeswax Wrappers – Jeanne Meier

Perez Produce/Armondo Perez – Former FC Farmer

Piece of Mind Baking/Serenity McGhee

Sugar River Country Bakery/Andrew McNaught

Terri Hubbard (crafts)

Bev Schaefer (crafts)

FOOD VENDORS

El Sabor De Puebla/Reyna Gonzalez – FC Farmer

The Sam’s Elegant Team African Food/Amie Cham

ARTIST VENDORS

Sue Schuetz – Farley Center Land Artist

Theresa Hover – Verona Artist

Char De Vos – Farley Center Land Artist

The Art of You Custom Art – Polly Fleming

Drawings of Some Sort – Alex Hahn – New Glarus Artists

Landon Fure – Verona Artist

Banana Blossom Jewelry – Jana Schroeer- Verona Artist

COMMUNITY TABLING:

Farley Center/NPS Information Table (FC and NPS Board Members)

Wisconsin Food Forests/Erin McWalter

Morgan’s Caring Connection/Janis Strutt

Be Smart/Twila Jean

Urban Triage/Ruthanna Hutton- Okpalaeke

Ryan Funeral Home/NPS Board Member Brenda Prorak

VOLUNTEERS

Sue Schuetz

Katrina Krueger

Linda Josheff

Farley Center Summer Market featuring the Farley Center Bees

art, celebration, community, culture, environmental, farm tour, farming, food, food festival, friendship, fun, music, sustainable farming

July 13, 2024

Farley Center Summer Market with a Bee Tour with Beekeeper Patrick Norby at 4:00

Thank you to Visit Verona for co-sponsoring the summer markets with the Farley Center!

Come join us for our second Farley Center Summer Market in the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA) at the Farley Center). Purchase some fresh vegetables, arts & crafts, food and gift items, listen to music and eat dinner at the summer market!

We are featuring our beekeeping program with a 4:00 tour by Farley Center Beekeeper Patrick Norby.

For interested vendors or community non-profits who want to participate, please e-mail for more information. We have much space available at this time!

MUSICIANS:

3:15-6:15 Country Road PD/Daithi Wolfe and Prentice Berge

VENDORS: (Updated as we add vendors)

Farley Center Beekeepers/Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten

Los Abuelos Farley Farm/Juan Gonzales – FC Farmer

Jennica Skoug – FC Farmer

Rockin Highlands Farms /Greg and Reeny Reynolds

Merle’s Midwest Market./Peggy Kalscheur

Hemp Haven Farms, LLC/Joni Sayers

Blue Butterfly Healing & Organics /Becky Jo

Green Box Compost/Esai Ponce

Rainbow Fleece Farm/Patty Reed

Bellebrook Botanicals/Monica Pastrana

Farley Center Beeswax Wrappers – Jeanne Meier

Perez Produce/Armondo Perez – Former FC Farmer

Piece of Mind Baking/Serenity McGhee

Flowers for Bees and Butterflies/Kerry Beheler

FOOD VENDORS

El Sabor De Puebla/Reyna Gonzalez – FC Farmer

The Sam’s Elegant Team African Food/Amie Cham

ARTIST VENDORS

Sue Schuetz – Farley Center Land Artist

Landon Fure – Verona Artist

Drawings of Some Sort – Alex Hahn – New Glarus Artist

Becky Powers -Sauk City Potter

COMMUNITY TABLING

Farley Center/NPS Information Table (FC and NPS Board Members)

Wisconsin Food Forests/Emily Steinwehe

Urban Triage/Ruthanna Hutton- Okpalaeke

Ryan Funeral Home/NPS Board Member Brenda Prorak

VOLUNTEERS

Linda Josheff

Katrina Krueger

Sue Schuetz

Ashley Webster – FC Board Member

Jacob Webster – NPS Board Member

Farley Center Summer Market featuring the Urban Triage Farm at the Farley Center

art, celebration, community, culture, environmental, farm tour, farming, food, food festival, friendship, fun, music, sustainable farming

Aug. 10, 2024

Farley Center Summer Market with an Urban Triage Farm Tour at 4:00 with Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke

Thank you to Visit Verona for co-sponsoring the summer markets with the Farley Center!

Come join us for our thrid Farley Center Summer Market in the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA) at the Farley Center). Purchase some fresh vegetables, arts & crafts, food and gift items, listen to music and eat dinner at the summer market!

We are featuring our farm program with a 4:00 tour.

For interested vendors or community non-profits who want to participate, please e-mail for more information. We still have space available at this time!

MUSICIANS:

3:00-4:30 Jeff Stanton https://www.facebook.com/events/346416165044490

4:30-6:30 The Sharp Key (Heidi Coles and Ken Stewart) and Tom and Kate Heiber-Cobb https://www.facebook.com/events/903439331514450

VENDORS: (Updated as we add vendors)

Farley Center Beekeepers/Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten

The Wander Parlour/Katrina Krueger

Linda Josheff (Arts, Crafts and Collectibles)

Los Abuelos Farley Farm/Juan Gonzales – FC Farmer

Rockin Highlands Farms /Greg and Reeny Reynolds

Merle’s Midwest Market./Peggy Kalscheur

Hemp Haven Farms, LLC/Joni Sayers

Green Box Compost/Esai Ponce

Rainbow Fleece Farm/Patty Reed

Chandy and Jen Karnum – FC Farmers

Rob Cleveland (collectable, antiques, art)

Winston’s WHAM T-Shirts and Comic Books/Jeramie Winston

Hairy Coo Flower Farm/Sharon Besser

Bellebrook Botanicals/Monica Pastrana

Farley Center Beeswax Wrapper – Jeanne Meier

Perez Produce/Armondo Perez – Former FC Farmer

Piece of Mind Baking/Serenity McGhee

Sugar River Country Bakery/ Andrew McNaught

Terri Hubbard (crafts)

Bev Schaefer (crafts)

Flowers for Bees and Butterflies/Kerry Beheler

FOOD VENDORS

El Sabor De Puebla/Reyna Gonzalez – FC Farmer

The Sam’s Elegant Team African Food/Amie Cham

ARTIST VENDORS

Sue Schuetz – Farley Center Land Artist

Steve Heuer – Farley Center Land Artist

Vicki Clark (pottery)

Landon Fure – Verona Artist

Drawings of Some Sort – Alex Hahn – New Glarus Artist

COMMUNITY TABLING:

Farley Center/NPS Information Table (FC and NPS Board Members)

Wisconsin Food Forests/Emily Steinwehe

BeSMART/Twila Jean

Urban Triage/Ruthanna Hutton- Okpalaeke

Ryan Funeral Home/NPS Board Member Brenda Prorak

VOLUNTEERS

Linda Josheff

Katrina Krueger

Sue Schuetz

Ashley Webster – FC Board Member

Jacob Webster – NPS Board Member

The Ants and the Grasshopper Mt. Horeb Screening

community, documentary, environmental, farming, health, justice

October 18, 2023

SouthWest Wisconsin Area Progressives, (SWWAP) and 350 Wisconsin and the Farley Center invites you to a FREE screening of The Ants & The Grasshopper, a full-length documentary shedding light on an amazing woman’s quest to save the world.

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.

Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.

This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.

WHAT: The Ants & The Grasshopper, followed by discussion and Q&A with members of the Agriculture Policy and Practices Team
WHEN: Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 7pm
WHERE: Mount Horeb Community Center, 107 N. Grove Street
Mount Horeb, WI 53572 See less See less

Farley Center Ukes at the Verona Downtown Farmers Market

art, celebration, community, farming, friendship, fun, music

9/6/23

The Farley Center Uke group (Katrina, Billy, G.Rae, Tim and Caroline) will be playing at the Verona Downtown Farmers Market! It is their first gig! This group has not been playing together very long and we are all at different levels but we do have FUN!
https://veronadowntownfarmersmarket.com/musicians

The Farley Center Ukes will follow Eric De Los Santos who will be playing the marimba from 3:00-5:00.

So, come join us for a fun farmers market located at Hometown Junction Park in Verona (right off of Main Street)! https://veronadowntownfarmersmarket.com/

Bike the Barns 2023

celebration, community, culture, environmental, farming, friendship, fun

9/17/23

Join us for FairShare CSA Coalition’s 15th annual Bike the Barns!

Bike the Barns is FairShare’s largest fundraiser. Proceeds from the ride benefit our organization and the Partner Shares Program, which help low-income families access farm-fresh veggies from a CSA farmer near them.

The event features farm tours, gourmet local food, craft libations, on-farm activities and live music. Join us as we bike to ensure food for every family!

Riders can expect gorgeous country roads, picturesque barns, natural areas, and scenic vistas around Dane County. The ride will start and stop at Badger Prairie County Park in Verona, Wisconsin. The short route will be ~35 miles with two farm stops. The long route covers ~55 miles with four farm stops.

This year’s farms are:
1) Crossroads Community Farm
2) Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
3) Prairie Bluff Farm (long route only)
4) Snug Haven Farm (long route only)

Visit csacoalition.org/bike-the-barns for more details and to register on June 1st!

Cocktail Hour with Farley Center

bees, celebration, community, culture, environmental, farming, food, friendship, fun, honey, sustainable farming

3/23/23

Farley Center has partnered with Palette Bar and Grill on a new cocktail using sustainably farmed honey from the Farley Center in 2022. Their Spring menu will once again feature the Farley Fly-By cocktail!

Join us on March 23rd for a cocktail hour from 4-6pm and try the Farley Fly-By (you can also order without alcohol) and learn about the Farley Center, our beekeeping program, and sustainable practices.

See Event Flyer

Learn more about the Farley Center beekeepers at
http://farleycenter.org/programsevents/beekeepers/

Annual Urban Harvest Fest

community, environmental, farming, food, friendship, fun, gardening, music, sustainable farming

9/17/22

The Annual Urban Harvest Festival is Urban Triage’s first festival celebrating all we’ve sowed over the summer and since the beginning of Urban Triage. Our Harvest celebration is grounded in sustainability, growth, and community.

What we do and who we are would not be–and is not possible without the support and commitment of our funders, volunteers, co-conspirators, community members, and staff. Together we’ve planted, sowed, and reaped tremendous growth and have impacted thousands of vulnerable community members in the Greater Dane County Area.

We’re on a mission to empower and inspire transformation and breakthroughs in our community through collaboration and cooperation. And we’ve done just that, and we’re just getting started.

Please celebrate with us all that we’ve accomplished together at our Farm–which has offered healing and sustainability for families in the Dane County Area. The work we do matters. And the families we serve and inspire are living proof.

Join us at The Farley Center on Saturday, September 17, 2022. It’s a fun-filled day of live music, acrobatics, a DJ, a majorette performance, food, spoken word, wine, and beer.

“I came to learn about food sustainability for myself and for my family. I enrolled in the program to learn healthier habits and to learn how to make money. I’ve gotten so much more from the program. Community. Healing. And bonding with the people that matter the most–my children.” – SHBA Cohort 1″

Interested in being an Event Sponsor? Review our Event Sponsorship packet for a full list of our event sponsorship opportunities HERE! We offer plenty of opportunities for all companies and organizations, large and small. You are sure to find something that best fits your organizations marketing needs!

To become an event sponsor, please fill out the following sponsor form HERE. Someone from our team will contact you to confirm your sponsorship contribution.

Contact: for free shuttle service to event.

For questions, please contact Lorissa Bañuelos at .