The Chequamegon Bay Food Producers group presents the Summer 2026 Farm Tours!
Check out Ashland County Grows!
Questions? Contact Lissa Radke at 715-682-7017 or Brian Clements at northcroftfarm@gmail.com
Summer 2026 Tours!
Silver Sage Farm and Flowers
Sunday, May 17,
1-3PM
81995 Arney Road, Port Wing
Mary Pearson grows a wide variety of potted plants, flowers, vegetables, fruits, and microgreens on her 30-year-old farm and greenhouses. Learn about this thriving greenhouse business that keeps her busy all season long.
Marengo Meadow Bees
Saturday, June 13,
2-4PM
67648 Jolma Road, Marengo
Riley and Rebecka Jolma offer a tour of their family apiary to show how their beekeeping hobby turned into a full-time job! Learn about raising bees, splitting hives, extracting honey, packaging, and the beneficial products made from honey and beeswax.
Will o the Winds Farm
Sunday, July 5,
3-5PM
78175 Washington Ave, Washburn
Join Carly and Tyler Stephenson for a tour of their seven-year-old, 20-acre farm outside Washburn. They pasture-raise 12 to 20 hogs a year, and in addition to selling the pork, Carly renders the fat to make scented soaps. They also raise meat and egg chickens, maple syrup, garlic, and winter squash.
Manitou Makoons Gitagaan
Saturday, July 18, 3-5PM
Mooningwaanekaaning (Madeline Island)
Visit this five-acre community farm whose mission is to reconnect and restore Indigenous ways of life through building intercultural community healing, and support a just, regenerative and climate-resilient food economy. The farm, in its third year of production, is focusing on building soil health and farm infrastructure.
Moonlight Meadows
Saturday, August 1,
2-4PM
41359 Mika Road, Marengo
Tim Mika has decades of experience raising grass-fed cattle on his family’s farm. He’s also the agricultural technician for the Ashland County Land and Water Conservation office and will cover soil health, soil testing, nutrient management, local county and NRCS support programs for farmers. The regional WDNR Wildlife Damage coordinator will also give a short presentation about helping farmers with damage caused by deer, bear, geese, turkey and elk.
Pinestick Acres
Saturday, September 19,
2-4PM
63700 Vranes Road, Ashland
Visit this five-acre community farm whose mission is to reconnect and restore Indigenous ways of life through building intercultural community healing, and support a just, regenerative and climate-resilient food economy. The farm, in its third year of production, is focusing on building soil health and farm infrastructure.
HAVE A QUESTION?
Lissa Radke serves Ashland County as the Community Development Educator. To learn more about Community Development Programming and the role of Extension in Ashland County, send an email to lissa.radke@wisc.edu or call the Ashland County office at 715-682-7017.
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