REAP Food Group

Looking for an apple picking destination this weekend? Check out in Burlington!

After a few rainy weekends, this Saturday and Sunday are PERFECT days for apple picking - especially because apple diversity at Brightonwoods is at its peak!

Along with an abundance of apples, weekends at the orchard are stacked with fresh-pressed apple c***r, c***r donuts that are made on site, and gourds and other fall goodies.

Extra fun this weekend is the Caledonia Lions Club Orchard Cruise In - so swing by for local bites and fun cars on Sunday!

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How would you like to own a grocery store with a bunch of your friends and neighbors? You can at ***ystreetcoop !

When you join the Co-op, you aren't a member—you're actually a part-owner of the business. You have a vote in major decisions, you can vote for people to represent your interests on our Board of Directors—you can even run for a seat on the Board yourself if you'd like! Plus you get all of the sales we offer, discounts on classes, and other perks, all while helping to support local farmers and vendors.

It's no surprise that W***y Street Co-Op has been a part of the Farm Fresh Atlas from the very beginning! Become an Owner today for as little as $10. Learn more at w***ystreet.coop/start-here.

Compassion towards those in need - especially the hungry - is deeply ingrained across belief systems.

The Food & Faith Summit next Monday will bring together religious leaders for multi-faith networking and strategic brainstorming about food insecurity in Dane County.

We’ll be presenting the Dane County Food System Action Plan, a community-centered initiative with a strategic vision for improving our regional food system. We invite multi-faith leaders to the table to discuss and strategize how the broader faith community can contribute to our shared mandate: ensuring food as a human right.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

We're gearing up for Big Bottles 🍾Small Bites 🥧, a fundraiser hosted by that benefits REAP Farm to School!

Thanks to our Greater Madison Dames Nicole Bujewski, Susan Parenti, Suzzette Metcalfe, and Jennifer Schwarzkopf for planning a delicious brunch menu along with the team at Chef Kristy Heine and Catering Manager Erin Dunn.

Tickets are still available, and we KNOW this menu gets your mouth watering - get yours at the link in our bio, or at https://bit.ly/4AuKz8s

Say hello to Pasture and Plenty, a Madison-based food business that's redefining what it means to eat well and eat local.

P&P wears a lot of hats: a farm-to-table café, a weekly meal kit subscription, full-service catering, and their Farm-to-Freezer line of ready-to-heat, locally sourced meals. Whatever the format, the mission stays the same: make real, seasonal, Wisconsin-grown food easy to get on your table.

Behind every dish is a deep commitment to local agriculture. P&P sources directly from Wisconsin farms, builds menus around what's actually in season, and partners with local producers to keep food dollars circulating right here in our community.

That mission just got a second home base: P&P Foodworks, their Production Kitchen & Manufactory at 1902 Wright Street. This wholesale facility is where P&P scales up local food production with a fully equipped co-manufacturing kitchen and vegetable processing line, all while keeping the supply chain rooted close to home.

From the café counter to the Foodworks production line, Pasture and Plenty is proof that local food can be convenient, delicious, and rooted in community.

🔗 www.pastureandplenty.com
🔗https://farmfreshatlas.org/view/pasture-plenty

Home of the Smilin’ Barn, The Elegant Farmer in Mukwonago offers the best specialty foods in its Farm Kitchen Bakery, Deli and Market, including its famed Apple Pie Baked in a Paper Bag. Visit the market year-round and enjoy family-friendly events like apple picking during Autumn Harvest Fest!

We’re getting excited for Les Dames d'Escoffier Madison Big Bottles, Small Pours - a fundraising brunch benefitting REAP Farm to School!

Drink pairings for the event are curated by Andrea Hillsey, the owner/operator of Square W**e Co - a retail w**e shoppe she opened on Madison’s (WI) Capitol Square in 2012. Originally from Michigan, Andrea played softball at Purdue University and then went on to study hospitality at Florida International University. In 2010, she worked harvest at Chehalem W**ery.

Get to know Andrea and her expert w**e pairings a little more by scrolling through! And don’t forget to reserve your brunch tickets for October 4th at the link in our bio 🍷

Special thanks to our event sponsors Annie’s Heirloom Seeds w***y street co-op !

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🍂 Our fall events lineup is here! 🍂

We believe that building a resilient local food system happens at the table, in the classroom, in the pews, in the field, and everywhere that people gather to share food, stories, and ideas. Our fall events are a reflection of that belief.

Each one is an opportunity to deepen the connections between the farmers, food makers, institutions, and community members who make our local food system possible, and to invite diverse groups of people into the work of building a better food system together. Whether you are coming to taste, to learn, to celebrate, or to plan, you are part of the movement and we hope you join us for one or all of these events.

And - you know us! There may be more added as the season progresses :)

We're proud to have some incredible organizations as a part of the Farm Fresh Atlas, listing alongside the businesses they serve.

One of these is Family Farm Defenders . Family Farm Defenders does indescribably important advocacy work - driving towards systemic change through education and action with their newsletters (and newsletter archive), their podcast, to their deep-dives on current issues like the Farm Bill - just to name a few!

Their mission is to build a broad grassroots movement to establish a fair, just and resilient agricultural system rooted in food sovereignty, agroecology, peace and international solidarity - which they work towards as a mostly volunteer-run, grassroots organizing group.

Support them, and learn more, through their profile on the Farm Fresh Atlas and on their website!

Pictured here is John Peck, FFD Director, at an event for the Dane County Food Action Plan.