We are so pleased to offer you the opportunity to see a great new film, "The Greenhorns: New Farmers in America," by Severine von Tscharner Fleming. It will be shown free of charge at the new Fitchburg Public Library, 5530 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg, in the upstairs meeting room on Tuesday, January 24th at 7 p.m.
After the film Roger Cohee, the chair of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the City of Fitchburg, will give a brief explanation of their new program matching would-be farmers with landowners who will rent land to them.
And we'll have small group discussions led by representatives of our co-sponsors (MACSAC: Madison Area Community Supported Agriculure Coalition, Madison Waldorf School, Sustain Dane, Trautman Family Farm, and Voss Organics) to give you a chance to explore the topics that the film brings up. The program will end by 8:50 p.m.
If you think you might want to grow food, if you want to understand just how important the local foods movement is to our future happiness, or if you just want to be inspired – come!
Fitchburg Fields is a grassroots, non-profit and for-impact organization in Fitchburg, WI, just south of the capital city of Madison. We have a small garden and a big vision, and we invite you to volunteer, learn, and contribute to our efforts!
What we do
Grow the next generation of organic farmers and gardeners.
Create new jobs in the local food sector.
Create community bonds.
Why we do it
Recession is causing unemployment and hunger.
Peaking oil supplies necessitate a low-fuel food system.
Global climate change necessitates a low-carbon food system.
How we do it
Teach in our garden.
Teach in community kitchens and homes.
Support the community with food and information.
"A Teaching and Sharing Garden"
Our Garden, 4000 sq. ft. of fertility at the SE
corner of Lacy Rd. and Fahey Glen in Fitchburg, WI, is a small plot of borrowed land, but we are enthusiastically using it to teach and learn
how to create a local food system in the Madison area. (Click here for
map.) We hope to
"scale up" our experiences when we purchase a 250-acre parcel just 2
miles away – but that will take a lot of help! (Read about our vision,
and see the land that could become a center for sustainable agriculture
and living by clicking here.)
New videos -Click here to see the video shown at the Harvest Dinner -
Click here to see us in action during our "Squash Challenge" -
