Member Farmers and Collaborators

Member farmers of the Browse and Grass Association work with collaborators, such as distributors or community-based cooks, as well agricultural advisers.

Ewe lamb in redtop at Tamarack Farm

Tamarack Sheep & Wool Farm - Janet McNally

Hinckley, Minnesota
www.tamaracksheep.com/
Tamaracksheep@hotmail.com

Janet McNally has been raising sheep for 30 years with the past 16 years dedicated to developing a pasture based sheep production system. The Tamarack flock is lambed on pasture and marketed off of forages. MORE

Corriente cattle at Swinging S Ranch

Swingin S Ranch - Carl & Lori Sudbrink

Colfax, Wisconsin
www.swinginsranch.com
swinginsranch@chibardun.net

Carl and Lori write, “In this day of high tech and hurried lifestyles our ranch offers you a distinctly different atmosphere whether you come for the trail riding, to reconnect with memories of growing up on a farm, or to experience life in rural America. As our guest, you are invited to participate in everything we do here.” MORE

Sheep at one of the Augusta, Wisconsin, farms

Community Sheep Farmers

Augusta, Wisconsin

This community has some of the most beautiful farms in the state. Windmills spin to deliver freshly pumped water, ice is collected in the winter to provide refrigeration in the summer, massive, draft horses pull plows to work the rich soil. Few electric wires mar the landscape. Black buggies are pulled with well-groomed horses. MORE

Goats at Shepherd Song

Shepherd Song Farm - Judy Moses & Larry Jacoby

Downing, Wisconsin
www.shepherdsongfarm.com

Judy and Larry write, “Welcome to our farm. When you buy from Shepherd Song Farm, you support environmentally friendly, sustainable agriculture, healthy, relaxed animals and the rapidly disappearing family farm.” MORE

Noor Arte of Safari Cuisine and Grocery

Safari Cuisine and Grocery - Noor Arte

Barron, Wisconsin

Safari Cuisine and Grocery is open daily and provides take-outs, delivery and catering services to the Barron community and with notice to the surrounding area such as Menomonie and Minneapolis. MORE

Chef Huma Siddiqui

White Jasmine, LLC - Chef Huma Siddiqui

Madison, Wisconsin
www.whitejasmine.com
huma@whitejasmine.com

Huma teaches creative food preparation through cooking classes and a televised cooking show, “White Jasmine Everyday Cooking,” that airs in the Madison, Wisconsin, viewing area. MORE

Dr. Joe Regenstein

Joe Regenstein, Ph.D.

Cornell University
jmr9@cornell.edu

Dr Regenstein has been actively involved with members of the Browse and Grass Farmer Association for over five years. MORE

Cary Griffin with Noor Arte and Nasra Xashi

Cary Griffin, Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

Florence, Montana
www.griffinhammis.com
cgriffin@griffinhammis.com

Cary specializes in building communities of economic cooperation, creating high performance organizations. He has transferred third world micro enterprise models to low resource, rural communities in the U.S. MORE

Nasra Xashi

Nasra Xashi, Wisconsin Somali Community Corporation

Wisconsin

Nasra was one of the first five Somali individuals to move to Barron in 1997 to work at the turkey processing plant. She volunteered to help later arrivals find housing, employment and mediated conflicts. MORE

Joan Benjamin (right) with Joe Regenstein and Larry Jacoby

Joan Benjamin

North Carolina
jbenjamin2@unl.edu

Joan Benjamin, NC SARE Coordinator and Associate Regional Coordinator of the Producer/Rancher grant program provided financial and media outreach assistance and technical support. MORE