Iowa County Entrepreneur Club

The next Iowa County Entrepreneur Club meeting will focus on growing businesses and creating jobs in local foods and regional food processing.

Join us Wed. Feb. 24 at 6 PM in Dodgeville to learn more about starting or growing your own business around the bountiful possibilities of local foods and regional food processing!

Local foods and regional food enterprises are blooming everywhere. This is becoming a great way to start and grow businesses in Southwest Wisconsin. Come and learn how you can participate.

Speakers will include:

Maria Davis from the REAP Food Group discussing 'Buy Fresh, Buy Local Southwest Wisconsin' and the demand for local foods.

Lois Federman, Director of the 'Something Special From Wisconsin' program at the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will discuss the possibilities of working with farmer's markets, produce auctions and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs.

Mark Olson of Renaissance Farm will discuss plans for the proposed vegetable processing and freezing facility planned for Highland and how regional growers might fit this into their future farm plans.

Rick Terrien of the Iowa County Area Economic Development Corp. will discuss business support available for area growers and farm-based entrepreneurs. Rick will also discuss business startup and expansion possibilities at the new community-access Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen in Mineral Point, a state-inspected food processing facility available to growers and food entrepreneurs .

A media release is attached with complete meeting details.

Come and learn how local foods and regional food processing possibilities can help you start a new business or expand your existing business.

Join us next Wed. Feb 24 at 6 PM in Dodgeville. Bring a friend! We look forward to seeing you there.

Iowa County. Come grow with us!

Sustainable Communities Forum

We need your help in creating strong, equitable and sustainable communities!



Real-world challenges and an audience eager to make a difference are key components of the Sustainable Communities Public Policy Forum and other Wisconsin Idea Forums. The University of Wisconsin’s resources -- coupled with your ideas, expertise and energy -- can create solutions for the state’s economic, environmental and social challenges. Let’s get to work together!



Free regional workshops are being held around the State to provide an overview of current sustainability efforts and conclude with participants identifying policy issues, barriers, strengths, and possibilities. Attending a Sustainable Communities Roundtable will help you connect with sustainability experts, share ideas from and for your own community and craft policy recommendations to support community sustainability throughout Wisconsin. Click here for more information on the roundtables.



Unable to attend the Roundtable? Register for the Sustainable Communities Public Policy Forum. You will learn who’s doing what to make their communities sustainable, then help write policy recommendations to move your own community and the state toward a sustainable future. These contributions will be shared in a post-conference publication, “Building Sustainable Communities in Wisconsin: Opportunities and Challenges Moving Forward.”



Forum Dates: March 25-26

Venue: University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley
Communication Arts Center
1478 Midway Road, Menasha

Registration and program information: Sustainable Communities Public Policy Forum

Information: sustainablecommunities@uwex.uwc.edu

Cost: $100 ($75 by March 1), $30 for students, $50 for a single day

Optional entertainment March 25: “Wild Woods & Waters” 920-832-2646