Wisconsin Idea Week | April 7-11, 2025

Wisconsin Idea Week | April 7 – 11, 2025

Where paths cross, communities thrive. Join Us for Wisconsin Idea Week! 🌍✨ Celebrate the power of community, collaboration, and civic engagement during Wisconsin Idea Week, happening from April 7–11 right here in Winnebago County! This exciting week will highlight the many ways the University of Wisconsin works with local partners to make a real impact. […]

Read More...
Photo of vegetables

Local Foods – Safe Foods: Starting a Farm- or Home-Based Food Business in Wisconsin- April 17th

UW-Madison Professor of Food Science Barbara Ingham will share information on food safety for products made at your farm or home.Registration for the event is available online at: https://go.wisc.edu/00487s.  For additional information about the workshops email Jessica Jane Spayde, Food Entrepreneurship Specialist at the Community Food Systems Program at the UW-Madison Division of Extension, at spayde@wisc.edu. 

Read More...
Photo of a backyard poultry flock

Responding to the Avian Influenza Outbreak

The current avian influenza outbreak is not thought to pose a risk to human health or to food safety but it is highly toxic to birds, including backyard poultry flocks.  As of April 2, 2022 the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced a confirmed case of the highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPIA) in a […]

Read More...