23. 2010 Columbia County Local FoodEvents “Sustainable Farming” Where: Fountain Prairie Inn & Farms When: May 2010
24. 2010 Columbia County Local FoodEvents “Local Foods Fair” Where: Columbia Co. Fair in Portage When: July 20-25, 2010
25. 2010 Columbia County Local FoodEvents 2010 Sample and Savor Fest When: Late August 2010 Where: LaPaceks Apple Orchard
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Phil Hazard puts together a half-bushel of Macintosh apples for a customer at Sunday's Savor and Sample Fest. Like most of the food available at the event, Hazard's apples, in numerous varieties, were produced in Columbia County -- in this case, in a town of Leeds orchard.
Natalie Kittelson, 7, chugs a pint of Sassy Cow chocolate milk at Sundays' Savor and Samplle Fest.
All this produce, and then some, came from the Plahnt Farm near Fall River -- one of several exhibitors who showcased foods grown in or near Columbia County at Sunday's Savor and Sample Fest.
Even though it's her 5-year-old brother, Benjamin, who harbors ambitions to become a dairy farmer, 7-year-old Natalie Kittelson of Johnson Creek builds her own miniature herd of Holsteins at a children's activity table, part of the Savor and Sample Fest.
Atticus Jaskunas, 18 months, of Columbus, gets a little help from his father, Jeremy Jaskunas, as he paints a miniature pumpkin at Sunday's Savor and Sample Fest. The paint that didn't end up on the pumpkin covered his hands.
A wagonload of visitors returns from a tour of the Rob and Jamie Baerwolf's conventional dairy herd -- one of the herds (the other is an organic herd) that supply the milk for the Sassy Cow bottling operation that the Baerwolf brothers operate in southern Columbia County.
The decadent flavor of Sassy Cow dark cherry chocolate ice cream fills the lips and tongue of Wayne Schumann of Sun Prairie at Sunday's Savor and Sample Fest, a showcase of foods produced in or near Columbia County, held Sunday at the Sassy Cow Creamery near Columbus.
Chef Earl Gesling, who buys his beef from John Priske of rural Fall River, creates a chipotle braised beef short rib on a corn meal johnny cake, topped with sweet corn and wildflower honey salsa.
A poster from the Wisconsin Farmers Union illustrates how little of a consumer's food dollars end up in a farmer's pocket. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau also had a booth at Sunday's Savor and Sample Fest.
Donna Neuwirth and Jay SalinasNeu-Erth Worm FarmE7904 Briar Bluff RoadReedsburg, WI 53959608-524-8672wormfarm@jvlnet.comCall for an appointment to stop by this farm that features organic vegetables and artist-made objects. This is Community Supported Agriculture, providing farm fresh vegetables to subscribers. Other farm fresh products available to the public.