CANCELED I & E Club Values and Business BuildingBy borges, Section The Marketplace
CANCELED due to weather forecast
The next Vernon Crawford Inventors and Entrepreneurs (I&E) Club meeting is Wednesday, December 9th Western Technical College at 220 South Main Street, Viroqua Come early to network at 5:30, the program starts at 6:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! The topic will be "Building a Business on Your Values" with Richard de Wilde of Harmony Valley Farm. De Wilde was raised on 650 acre dairy, beef and grain farm near South Shore, South Dakota and received college degrees in Engineering and Education. He started an organic vegetable farming business in 1973 in Eagan, Minnesota and moved to Harmony Valley Farm in 1984 where he currently grows over 120 acres of organic, fresh market vegetables. Well before organic and sustainable practices were part of the mainstream, de Wilde used farming techniques that worked with natural systems such as companion planting, composting and green manures to improve soil health, and employing natural predators to control pests. Building a business on values meant not only focusing on environmental sustainability but social sustainability through employee friendly practices. Providing steady employment, a living wage, and housing are an important part of the Harmony Valley's business ethic. To expand awareness of the farm's social and environmental choices, they publish a newsletter and a blog and host workshops and tours. More about Harmony Valley and the I&E club in the full story...
Harmony Valley Farm is located in a secluded, spring-fed valley in
Viroqua Wisconsin. Through direct sales at the Dane County Farmers'
Market, to over 1000 families in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
program, small retail stores and fine restaurants, the farm has earned a
reputation for especially flavorful, high quality vegetables, fruits and
herbs. The farm provides also provides additional options to purchase
Certified organic, pasture grazed Angus beef, organic fruit sourced from
other growers in North America, organic fair trade coffee, and organic
cheese. The farm's CSA drop sites are located in Viroqua, LaCrosse,
Onalaska, Mazomanie, and Madison Wisconsin, and also Minneapolis, St.
Paul, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Bloomington and Rosemount, Minnesota. For
more information visit www.harmonyvalleyfarm.com.
Whether you have an idea or just like to think business, plan to attend for a dynamic evening of networking with lots of creative people. Everyone is welcome! For more information, check out our I&E Club website at http://www.veda-wi.org/inventors_club.html or http://crawford.uwex.edu/cnred/IEClub.html or contact Sue Noble at 637-5396 or Laura Brown 608-326-0223. Whether you have an idea or just like to think business, plan to attend for a dynamic evening of networking with lots of creative people. For more information about regional club meetings visit www.driftlessentrepreneurs.com Hope to see you there! Best- Laura Brown and Sue Noble |
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