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10/12/2026

Another construction update! The excavation work is progressing. We'll be trying to get regular updates out with the site progress.

10/05/2026

Construction has begun! Shot a quick video the other day to give folks an update on our big expansion project.

10/02/2026

A huge part of the farm this year has been Lucy, who is doing a two year farm manager apprenticeship program through FairShare and the State of Wisonsin DWD. Rather than us define who Lucy is, we thought it'd be better to just hand the mic over to her!

"I have a background in evolutionary biology and ecology, and spent many fun years working on field sites abroad where I had unique opportunities to study Wild Chacma Baboons in South Africa, Ground-nesting Abaco Parrots in the Bahamas, and large mammal populations in East Africa. These experiences continue to inform my world-view today and inspired me to seek out a graduate degree in Environmental Science from The University of Minnesota. At U of M, I studied and taught about the environmental impacts of our food systems and eventually published my thesis on the relationship between public policy, commodities like soybeans and cattle, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region. After grad school, I began advocating for low emissions policy for commodity chains like Indonesian palm oil before being unexpectedly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that forced a pause. I found that by changing my diet and lifestyle to embrace local, nutrient-dense foods I was able to live a symptom-free life and have spent the past 6 years running a small nutrition practice where I teach others these principles. It has been a dream of mine since reading Allan Savory's work in graduate school to be on a working farm that strives towards regenerative principles, and I am so excited to bring together all my interests--ecology, sustainable food systems, and healthy living--and participate in life on the farm at Little Society!"

09/23/2026

Whenever we can we try to grow purple varieties of vegetables, because PURPLE!!

It turns out there are a lot of options out there too. That might be because PURPLE!!, but also these purple vegetables are higher in anthocyanin which to be honest I don't really know much about, but many things on the internet tell me they are very good for you.

Right now a purple standout on the farm is our Blue Coco Pole Bean. I know it calls itself blue, but even the seed catalog description acknowledges this is definitely purple and not blue. Perhaps the bean is depressed, but given how vigorous its attempts at reproducing are it doesn't seem like it.

09/15/2026

🌿 This past weekend we had our CSA Appreciation dinner! Each year we invite all of our CSA members to the farm and cook up some sort of a meal with our farm produce. This is a nice chance for people to walk around and see the in-ground plants that have been filling their shares throughout the year and, of course, play with the sheep 🐑

It is also a way to say thank you and get to know people in the CSA more. While our kitchen was a mess (I, Brad, can't seem to reign my ambition in with the number of dishes and vegetables...) it was, I think, a big success. A lot of that credit goes to the extra help we had on Saturday too, so big thanks to Lucy (our farm apprentice) and Allison (a WWOOFer who came up from Chicago) for pitching in! (Also, photo credit to Allison for a couple of the photos in this post.)

09/01/2026

We can finally make the news public – we’ve got a big project in the works on the farm!

In short, we hope a year from now we will have a cafe, retail store, cabins, and shared-use commercial kitchen on-site! We have literally bet the farm on it (and more!), but with help from a big grant that is helping pay for part of the kitchen building, we feel now is the time to “go-for-broke” if you will and try to fulfill some of the big visions we have for this farm and our lives in general.

We have many goals for this project ranging from small to perhaps overly idealistic and self-important :). One is just finding a way for us to make the farm financially viable for us over the next 20+ years while still maintaining the growing practices we feel are important (even if those growing practices aren’t as “efficient” or rewarded in the marketplace). Another is to be a community resource and provide not only a source for local foods and preserved goods, but also support other local farms and food businesses with the shared kitchen and equipment and an outlet/buyer for their products. Finally, we love the opportunities a project like this has to bring other people into our farm in an ownership/equity gaining position and eventually create a cooperative economic model. Can we become part of a larger movement that reimagines what it means to feed oneself and one's community while helping decentralize the food system and economic/political power, providing meaningful, dignified, and healthful labor, promoting biodiversity, and giving in the ground (and on the plate) examples of ecologically beneficial agriculture? Maybe! Or maybe that's overly idealistic and self-important. Well – here we go, we’re trying anyway!

Image credit: Aro Eberle Architects

08/24/2026

We’ve had a ton of fireflies out in our pasture in the evenings. No mass market w**d sprays = more fireflies! The little fairy lights are quite magical (though admittedly, they don’t translate as well to photos). They are starting to dwindle now as the season comes to a steady close.

08/17/2026

Among the aronia! Eleanor and I actually got a mini-vacation last weekend! The “vacation” kind of actually started on Friday since we got to hang out at two of our favorite area farms. First, we went to Hilltop Community Farm near La Valle. Rob and Erin no longer do a CSA of their own, but still have lots of great perennial fruits and preserved goods and graciously let us come pick some of their aronia! They have some abundant bushes and we always enjoy the excuse to go hang out on their farm for a little while. After that we headed to our farm friend Orange Cat Community Farm and enjoyed an evening there ❤️

Saturday we went all the way up to the northernmost parts of the state. The Savanna Institute’s Agroforestry Farm Network was having an event at Elsewhere Farm in Herbster, WI (and for those who aren’t aware, Eleanor’s full-time gig is the coordinator of said network, so she was helping put on the event). Clare of Elsewhere farms solo and has, over 25 years, managed to develop a really impressive, resilient and extremely diverse farm. I especially enjoyed seeing some practices I had only read about (like pollarding linden trees to get forage for animals and also some tasty salad leaf substitutes for human animals) and seeing first hand that her American guinea hogs don’t actually root and are impressive w**d-eating foragers! Savanna Institute

The next day we checked out the Fruit Loop – a cluster of U-pick fruit farms near Bayfield. Earlier in the year I had actually given Lucy, our farm manager apprentice, a hard time because, when asked what she was looking forward to most about her northern Wisconsin vacation, she immediately said picking berries, which is literally one of her jobs on the farm. Yet, here I was, picking berries for the second time on this “vacation” weekend.

Next weekend, we’ll actually be hosting a farm event ourselves! poweredupbaraboo, a local non-profit, will host an event on our farm that will give us a chance to talk to the community about the farm, why we do what we do and also our upcoming farm development. It is a free event, starts at 4pm on Saturday (August 22) and we’ll have snacks fresh from the farm.

05/14/2026

The sheep bring us so much joy

03/17/2026

Sometimes lambing is looking outside to find adorable baby lambs born without any trouble, and sometimes it doesn't work out that way... This year, we had both experiences. The majority of our lambs were born with no complications and are currently frolicking in the snow with their attentive mothers. Unfortunately, we had a ewe and her twins that had a hard labor that none of them made it through (reach out if you want more details about this rather harrowing, emotional event). We also have two slightly runty babies (from two different moms) that we've had to keep a close eye on in this first week of their lives. Neither lamb has gained a lot of weight, and both have needed bottle feeding to supplement what they've been able to get from their mothers. We're optimistic about both lambs' chances of catching up to their flockmates, though!

Address

E11540 State Road 136
Baraboo, WI
53913

Telephone

+16084460670

Website

http://littlesocietyfarm.com/

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