Featuring Wisconsin Business Resources
The UW-Madison Extension Community Food Systems Program will provide no-cost virtual workshops for small-scale food and farming business start-ups.
Local Food Markets, Marketing & Economics
Our program specialists and educators conduct applied research and provide outreach on local food marketing strategies, food market channels, market dynamics and key socio-economics metrics of local and regional food systems.
Articles
Burlington’s Bustling Farmers Market
I am the statewide Food Entrepreneurship Specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Community Food Systems Program. Recently, I visited the beautiful Thursday night farmers market in Burlington, Wisconsin. While visiting the market, I had the pleasure of meeting several food, farming, and craft vendors. They were selling fresh produce, drinks, cooked food, […]
Bank of Cashton’s Future is in Local Food Incubation
I am the statewide Food Entrepreneurship Specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Community Food Systems Program. Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the Bank of Cashton with Mara Keyes, the Southwest Project Director at WWBIC. The Bank of Cashton’s President Scot Wall shared the Bank’s vision of their new commercial kitchen […]
Resources for local food businesses and communities interested in the economic impacts of local and regional food
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension as well as the State of Wisconsin provide numerous resources for those starting and marketing a local food business.
