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Grassroots Farm—owned and operated by a mother and daughter team—is located in Green County, Wisconsin, 35 miles southwest of Madison, in the Driftless Area, a part of our state that was left unscoured by the glaciers. The countryside is rolling with a “high view” to the horizon at each hillcrest. Our neighbors operate primarily large acreage grass and dairy farms and row-crop ventures.
Our 40 acre farm features two wet weather springs that arise in the pasture hillside and flow through 5 acres of market garden fields. Bluebirds, goldfinches, and barn swallows are abundant throughout the summer. We see an occasional deer, eagle, and red-tailed hawk. The pastures are visited by beneficial butterflies, some rare or endangered, during the summer.
In the midst of big agriculture we have established a “new family farm” on these 40 acres. Our agricultural model is based on a small, diverse, closed circuit farm, similar to the farmsteads operated in our area 100 years ago with the use of some mechanized equipment.
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