Carol Larsen
| Carol has sold cut flowers at the Dane
County Farmers' Market for 28 years,currently sits on the Farmers' Market
Board, and chairs the Search and Screen Committee. She has extensive
experience as a manager in the business sector, which gives her unique
skills in relating to diverse groups of people, project initiation and
completion, and human resource issues. |
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Joe Schmitt
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has 15 years experience growing for east coast wholesale markets and has spent
the last eight years selling cut flowers to regional retail flower shops through
farms and directly to consumers. He is a third-generation cut flower grower
who provides educational workshops on weed management and is well know for
the quality, variety, and uniqueness of his products.
Judy Hageman
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Judy is the former manager of Home Grown
Wisconsin, an organic cooperative that sells produce to restaurants
in Madison and Chicago. She was instrumental in the development and
expansion of Home Grown Wisconsin's market to the Chicago area. She
was a co-manager of the Dane County Farmers' Market and coordinated
300 Market vendors, the Board, local media, and community leaders. Most
recently, she is part of the steering committee for the Dane County
Central Agriculture Facility. This picture shows her stand at the Dane
County Farmers Market manned by her husband, Bill Warner. |
Kate Cooper
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Kate Cooper started Kate's Fresh
Flowers in 1998 to provide locally grown organic flowers to bouquet
subscribers, florists and special events planners. Since 2002, when
she moved to a small farm in Iowa County, Kate has developed flower
production beds as part of her long-term vision for the property: gardens
and woodlands dedicated to promoting health and healing, both for people
and the native ecosystem. This season Kate and intern, Bridget FitzGibbon
are growing over 50 annual and perennial cut flowers, including some
new and unusual varieties such as ornamental grasses, okra, and Jewels
of Opar. |
Kim &
Roberta Barham |
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Proprietors of Barham Gardens, an agribusiness in its
infancy, have recently moved to apicturesque rural property and chosen
flower-growing as a hobby and business. Though new to the flower growing
trade, the Barhams have cultivated urban perennial and vegetable gardens
and are descendents of farming families. They are eager to experience
their new green venture in sustainable farming. |
Erika Jensen
Erika lives and
farms in Waupaun, Wisconsin. She and her partner raise beef, row crops,
vegetables and flowers. Erika has a strong background in vegetable production
and formerly ran a 70-share Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in
Prairie Farm, Wisconsin. Memberships included a weekly bouquet of fresh
cut flowers. She also is a freelance writer for such publications as Orgainic
Gardening, Northern Gardener, and Growing for Market.
Larry Johnson
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Larry grows cut flowers
and specialty crops at Still Point Farm south of Madison, Wisconsin
. His fields produce standard and unusual cut flowers including annuals,
perennials, shade-loving plants, and scented flowers. Larry is an experienced
grower and manager who has sold to florists, grocers, restaurants, subscribers,
and farmer markets. |
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