Subject: winter farmers market benefit on Saturday, 25 February at Trinity ELCA Lutheran Church Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:25:15 -0600 Message-ID: <A5B73933514E494097467804DBDF709D0701AE1D@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Forman, Pamela J." <FORMANPJ@uwec.edu>
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Winter Farmers Market Benefit
Saturday, February 25: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Trinity ELCA Lutheran Church
1314 E. Lexington Boulevard, Eau Claire, WI
Products include most or all of the following:
Grass-fed beef, pork, lamb, chicken, duck, quail, pheasant
Bison, bison hides and skins
Several cheese varieties, yogurt, eggs
Honey, maple syrup, jelly
Farmstead goat milk soap, yarn, wool, wool products
Foods and gifts you buy this season can help
Wisconsin farm families through a crisis this winter.
Family farm producers are featured at this benefit sale for the Harvest
of Hope farm emergency fund, which is helping Wisconsin farm families
through times of crisis:
1197 gifts totaling $695,280 since January 1986.
10% of all sale proceeds are donated to the Harvest of Hope Fund. Each
purchase helps two farmers: the farmer selling the product and the
farmer receiving a Harvest of Hope gift!
Co Sponsors: Churches Center for Land and People & the Harvest of Hope
Fund
For details contact: Roger Williams, 608: 839-4758 / rtwillia@wisc.edu
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Tony Ends, 608: 897-4288 / scotchhillfarm@wekz.net
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Farmers Helping Farmers at Harvest of Hope Benefit
Buy high quality Wisconsin food and help Wisconsin farm
families through a crisis this winter. That's the idea behind a Winter
Farmers Market at the Trinity ELCA Lutheran Church of Eau Claire,
Saturday, February 25 from 11 AM to 4 PM. The church is at 1314 E.
Lexington Boulevard in Eau Claire, WI.
The market will feature most or all of the following:
grass-fed beef, pork, lamb, chicken, duck, quail, pheasant, bison, bison
hides and skins, several cheese varieties, yogurt, eggs, honey, maple
syrup, jelly, farmstead goat milk soap, yarn, wool and wool products.
Ten percent of all proceeds will be donated to the Harvest of Hope Fund,
an ecumenical farm crisis fund that has contributed more than 1197 gifts
totaling over $695,280 to Wisconsin farm families in crisis since its
inception in 1986.
The Harvest of Hope Fund responds to a range of farm crisis
situations: power cut-offs, house or barn fires, emergency medical or
veterinary bills, feed for cattle or food for the farm family,
weather-related crises (drought, flooding, frost), or help with spring
planting expenses. Power cut-offs or threatened power cut-offs have
been huge issues in past years.
The tornados and drought of this past summer will cause major feed
shortages this winter. And the summer hurricanes will create huge price
increases for gas, natural gas and fertilizer...inputs farmers depend on
that are manufactured by the Gulf Coast petrochemical industry ravaged
by Katrina and other storms. So, large numbers of Wisconsin farm
families are likely to face financial problems in the coming months.
"Winter Farmers Markets bring sustainable farmers and people
of faith together in church halls, giving farmers a chance to market
their products in the winter months, giving people of faith a chance to
purchase locally and sustainably-produced farm products and giving faith
communities a chance to stand up for stewardship of the earth's
resources and economic justice for farm families," according to Roger
Williams, Winter Farmers Market Coordinator.
The Winter Farmers Market reflects a partnership between the
First United Methodist Church of Waupaca, the Churches Center for Land
and People (CCLP) and the Harvest of Hope Fund (HOH). CCLP is an
ecumenical center that works for justice, land stewardship, spirituality
and community on behalf of farm families in Wisconsin, Illinois and
Iowa. HOH is an ecumenical farm emergency fund administered by the
Madison Christian Community in Madison, WI.
Tony Ends, a Brodhead farmer who directs the Churches Center
for Land and People and leads ten farms in a farmstead soap guild and
marketing cooperative had this to say about the Winter Farmers Markets:
"These benefits link family farmers with people who share their values.
They bring justice to farmers and reward their stewardship practices;
they also strengthen local economies and build community."
The general public, including people of all faiths, are
invited to attend this Winter Farmers Market.
For details contact: Roger Williams, Winter Farmers Market
Coordinator, 608: 839-4758, rtwillia@wisc.edu
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Pamela J. Forman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
429 Schneider Social Science Building
University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
P.O. Box 4004
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Telephone: 715.836.3039
Fax: 715.836.5071
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