Farm & Food Education features the Garden Student Foundation Year, Whole Farm Workshops and Guided Educational Tours bringing the benefits of sustainable agriculture to beginning farmers, advanced growers and consumers.  Stella Gardens is the certified organic outdoor classroom where participants receive hands-on training and agricultural experience with a community purpose. The goal of the program is to teach practical skills for garden, farm and horticultural vocations.
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Public Policy

The Michael Fields Agricultural Institute works to reform government policy to support agriculture that is good for the environment, public health and rural and urban communities.
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Farming Systems

Farming Systems program area implements research findings from Michael Fields' efforts as well as those of the Wisconsin Integrated Farming Systems Trials, now in the fifteenth year. Our target audience is grain and livestock producers, agriculture professionals and beginning farmers. Our 570-acre "outdoor classroom" provides demonstration of profitable farming practices that have positive impacts on air, water and wildlife quality. Crop rotation, ground cover, nutrient trading with local dairies, boarder strips and alternative crops are some of the practices demonstrated.
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Urban Agriculture

Urban agriculture provides a rich platform for addressing urgent and growing needs of urban populations, particularly low-income and socially disadvantaged people.  Traditional support systems such as food banks, social welfare agencies, police, health clinics and schools are stressed trying to meet the growing needs. Michael Fields joins teachers, health professionals, municipal authorities, and neighborhood leaders in Milwaukee to promote urban agriculture as an important solution to immediate needs especially for the particularly vulnerable children and youth of the inner city.
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