Rooted Wi Inc

Badger rock neighborhood center-the badger rock neighborhood center (brnc) serves as a multi-generational neighborhood hub for socializing, learning, training, research, and healthy resilient living. The center offers monthly community dinners (average attendance 150 people; highest attendance 300 people) and provides space for community events, including serving as the neighborhood polling place (voter turnout above 90% in presidential elections), gatherings, and enriching programming for all ages. Brnc also offers gardening and culinary education to badger rock middle school students and families. Rooted wi staff also operate an onsite educational farm, school gardens, a food forest, and manage 46 community garden plots.

Farm - program includes beginning farmer training, community supported agriculture, farm stand, and selling wholesale field crops, cut herbs, and sprouts to a small number of local grocery stores.

Youth and school gardens - participants will learn about the special characteristics of urban food production, including the distribution and marketing of urban-grown food, post-harvest processing and storage, remediation of urban soils, relevant policy issues, and more. This breadth of training can prepare participants for a wide range of careers and service opportunities including and beyond farming, such as starting food businesses, working for nonprofit organizations engaged in food systems work, horticultural therapy, school gardens, environmental education, and even the peace corps.