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Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is proud to welcome Renesha Muchapondwa as our new Food and Nutrition Systems Coordinator. Renesha’s initial focus at MFAI will be our Farm to School partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools, which is launching in ten schools this fall and up to 40 schools by 2027. In the coordinator role, she will strengthen connections between schools, farmers, teachers, students, and community partners. It’s work she already knows well. In a previous Farm to School...

The Senate Agriculture Committee is in the midst of Farm Bill negotiations, and key conservation funding is poised to be on the chopping block. Call your senators TODAY and ask them to support these two key amendments to the Senate Farm Bill: Fully Fund Conservation: The Senate Farm Bill, as currently written, would cut around $2.4 billion from USDA conservation programs that Wisconsin farmers rely on, including approximately $500 million from the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)....

When Michelle Cannon first started farming in 2008, she had no background in agriculture, just the sense that her community needed more...