Fall 2023 Encouraging Financial Conversations Series Available
EFC – Encouraging Financial Conversations is a program designed for case managers, social workers, and other frontline staff to help empower clients achieve their financial goals and manage their money. EFC participants will learn techniques and strategies to help their clients create a financial goals action plan, build and maintain good credit, pay off debts, […]
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La Follette students highlight benefits of universal child savings accounts in Wisconsin
Five graduate students from the La Follette School of Public Affairs demonstrated that universal child savings accounts could have significant benefits for the state when they conducted the first statewide cost-benefit analysis of the idea last fall. Stephanie Mertens, Ian O’Connor-Giles, Adam Riley, Sam Schneider, and Tyler Williams completed the study on behalf of UW–Madison’s Division of […]
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Preserve it Fresh, Preserve it Save: A Newsletter for Those Who Preserve Food at Home (May/June 2023)
Safety of Home Dried Mushrooms Fresh mushrooms have a short shelf life, usually 1-3 days at room temperature. For this reason, drying them either commercially or at home is an attractive alternative, because it lowers the water activity to below 0.85, thereby restricting the growth of pathogens (harmful bacteria). When dehydrated to a water activity […]
Read More...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.
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Our office will be closed Friday, April 7th
In observance of the holiday, we will be closed on Friday April 7th. We will reopen Monday, April 10th with normal business hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
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A Response for Fatherhood: What We Heard from Wisconsin Dads
A Response for Fatherhood: What We Heard from Wisconsin Dads What does it take to support today’s fathers? How do you define a successful fatherhood? Those are the questions research from UW-Madison Extension is answering with its Wisconsin Fatherhood Need assessment, a report now available here: https://parenting.extension.wisc.edu/fatherhood Extension realized we were not serving fathers in […]
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Youth Tractor Safety
The Wisconsin Youth Tractor & Machinery Safety Certification Program is designed to meet requirements established by the US Department of Labor, pertaining to special provisions made for the employment of youth ages 14-15 on farms not operated by their parents. In addition, Wisconsin Act 455 provides specific provisions for tractor operation by 12-13 year olds. […]
Read More...Preserve It Fresh, Preserve It Save: A newsletter for those who preserve food at home (March/April 2023)
View, print, or share the full issue here. Use the Right Canner for the Job! Whether you are a new or life-long home food preserver; you may have noticed that there are a variety of canners available. It is important recognize the pH of the food being processed will indicate what type of canner can […]
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Strong Couples Program
FREE Relationship Help for Couples in All Life Stages The Strong Couples Program is free! This program is for couples together 6 months or longer, in all life stages. This educational program is NOT counseling. The program teaches couples to use tools to improve their relationship. Benefits to Couples Why should you and your partner […]
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