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Rooted is committed to collaborations rooted in food, land, and learning, enabling people to grow and thrive in healthy, equitable, and sustainable neighborhoods.

08/12/2026

Fresh from the farm: a dill-ightfully silly (dilly?) harvest from Troy Farm with crew member Tyler. Dill harvest comes to us in multiple parts: fresh greens, flowers, and seed heads, which can all be used in the kitchen. Tzatziki, quick pickles, salmon, it’s all delicious!

08/11/2026

This year's A Summer Night's Dream dinner was in a special way celebrating the 25th anniversary of Troy Farm and all those who have grown food here. An integral part of of the community of growers at Troy are our Troy Farm Collaborative members! Many of them contributed to the celebration in some way, and we are very grateful for these ongoing partnerships. Thank you to our partner growers for all the good work they do in this community!

Dinner coffee: Melissa & Sei Kidau, Rasta Barista/40 Acre Farm
Farm tour refreshment: Kim Fruin, FarmHer Greens
Flowers: Occupy Madison OM Build - OM Village Tiny Homes: Occupy Madison, Inc and Yen Ping Hung, Yen’s flowers
Featured chef: Yusuf Bin-Rella, TradeRoots Farms

And finally, a big THANK YOU to all our outstanding volunteers and staff who gave their time and efforts to make this event truly a dream!

08/10/2026

Our Rooted in Urban Agriculture Youth Employees Diego, Carlos, and Samy, and our Director of Urban Agriculture Education Sarah Karlson, were recently on WORT FM for the second pilot episode of Free Seeds! This program is about food justice and food security, and our Rooted staff shared about their work in the Youth Employment program. Listen any time online to learn more our Youth Employees, what they do, and how they're supporting food justice in their community! We're so proud of all they have achieved. Listen here: https://www.wortfm.org/youth-farmers-lead-the-local-food-justice-movement/

08/06/2026

When community comes together, magic happens - and that's what we felt at July's A Summer Night's Dream. Thank you to our partners who made the event special while co-creating a beautiful space together.

Pre-dinner music: Eric De Los Santos
Dinner Music: The Vilasi Project
Event Support: Kaleidoscope Event Design
Erika Jarden for donating the use of her beautiful teacups.

Finally, thank you to Veridian Homes Foundation for helping sponsor the event and making it even more impactful. Every dollar raised helps Troy Farm to continue to grow food for neighbors and share it widely.

08/05/2026

The Rooted Youth Employees at Madison School Farm had fun interviewing our Troy Kids Garden manager for a video they are working on. They plan to create videos and signs for each of our three farm about climate change mitigation practices we use at each site! This project is grant supported by the Wisconsin Climate Action Network.

08/04/2026

Join Rooted and Quivey's Grove for a special vegetable-focused fundraising dinner on Thursday, August 13th at 5:30pm in the Stone House at Quivey’s Grove.

Featuring a four-course vegetarian meal made with produce grown at Rooted's Troy Farm, and two specialty summer beverages. Rooted staff will also be in attendance to share about our mission and the importance of school garden education for all kids! Join us to learn more about Rooted's Farm to School programing and help support school gardens. Ticket price includes a donation to Rooted. See the menu: https://www.quiveysgrove.com/event-details/rooted-fundraiser-dinner-2

08/03/2026

Cucumber Harvest with Troy Farm worker shares and crew! This is a tough harvest without sleeves, so the team is modeling their uber stylish (and protective) sock sleeves.
Far more stylish is the radish sock Farmer Galilea knit just in time for the last radish harvest at Troy Farm. Knitting veggie socks is the perfect pastime for an off duty farmer. Now they need to start on the second one!

07/31/2026

Last week wrapped up our Badger Rock Middle School summer session, and students completed their new beehive building project! They constructed a Kenyan Top Bar Hive, a style of bee hive that allows bees to build their comb as they naturally would down from bars across the top, instead of being constrained by a foundation. It's also easier to inspect bees and collect honey with this type of hive because you don't have to move heavy supers like on the Langstroth style hives we already have at Badger Rock. Students capped off the project by clearing an area in the garden for planting native wildflowers with the seed balls they made in the fall, to support both our honeybees and native bees!

07/30/2026

One of the most powerful and inspiring answers to big issues including broken food systems and climate change is the kids in our communities. We believe young people are the key to building a resilient future. When kids grow food themselves and learn to cook with it, they’re far more likely to eat fresh vegetables and grow up with a care and concern for their environment. When we bring children into these conversations about climate, food justice, and culture early, we can create real, lasting change.

Rooted's Farm to School programs are doing this by providing school garden educators to teach gardening and cooking lessons in eight MMSD schools, as well as providing similar hands-on garden education at neighborhood centers, through the many field trips we host at our farms, and in our year round partnership with Badger Rock Middle School. You can help support this work! Join us at Quivey's Grove on Thursday August 13 for a special vegetable-focused dinner benefiting Rooted. Learn more: https://rootedwi.org/event/quiveys-grove-fundraising-dinner/

07/29/2026

Thank you to IBEW Local 159 - The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - for generously sponsoring Rooted's Garden Nights and Farm to School Aid at Troy Farm this summer! We've been lucky enough to work with IBEW ourselves in the past: they helped update and expand our electrical system at Troy Farm. IBEW also offers apprentice programs for young adults looking to become electricians. Thank you to IBEW Local 159 for supporting Rooted and the Troy Farm community!

Address

517 East Badger Road
Madison, WI
53713

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

(608)2400409

Website

https://www.rootedwi.org/

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