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Farm Tour Photo Stories

Northcroft Farm Tour

See the photos below for highlights of the tour!

Perfect fall day.
Beautiful road to Northcroft Farm.
Almost there!
Turkeys forage in corn fields on the way to the farm.
View from Brian’s farm.
Brian Clements, Northcroft Farm owner for 10 years!
Guests learn about growing veggies.
Brian grows fantastic salad greens.
Butter lettuce ready for picking.
Kale ready for a salad.
Lots of salad in waiting!
Greenhouses packed with fresh veggies.
Current and future greenhouses for next years crops.
Eight foot tall tomatoes.
Very tall tomatoes!
Perfect pumpkin looking for a crust.
Thanks for the tour!!

Hermit Creek Farm Tour

See the photos below for highlights of the tour!

Beautiful rural landscape in Ashland County on the way to Hermit Creek farm.
The house and farm is run on solar energy.
 Vegetables are sorted in the packing house to get ready to fill subscription food orders for customers.
Steven and Landis Spickerman have owned Hermit Creek Farm for over 30 years.
Herbs such as parsley and basil are ready for CSA boxes.
Kay and Bob Hennes from Duluth with the first CSA customers years ago!
Kale varieties are thriving in greenhouses.
All veggies are grown in very large greenhouses around the farm.
Sleepy pigs nap in summer sunshine.
Onions drying in the onion greenhouse.
Onions drying in the onion greenhouse.
All varieties of tomatoes ripen in the sun.

Throughdirt Farm Tour

The Throughdirt Farm Tour took place on a rainy Saturday in mid-August! See the photos below for highlights of the tour!

trees and a field with a blue sky above
Through Dirt Farm overlooks a lovely valley in the hills above Washburn, on a rainy tour day
wooden fence post with dirt path leading to a field
Welcome to the main field of produce and crops grown at the farm!
People standing in front of a light blue house. One is talking and the other is listening.
Alex and Ryan Padrutt, owners and farmers, welcomed visitors to their fields in August 2025
farmer kneeling in dirt talking
Ryan explained his first step towards growing effectively: Making healthy soil
group stands around small yellow tractor while farmer talks
Ryan explains how his smaller tractor takes on the big jobs
rows of kale
Hundreds of kale plants ready for salads!
full squash plants
A greenhouse full of a variety of squashes
full tomato plants growing inside greenhouse
Another greenhouse for many tomatoes
onions in dirt close up
Red onions growing together in nice, rich soil

Wild Hollow Farm Tour

The first of the Summer 2025 Farm Tours began with Melissa & Jason Fishbach’s Wild Hollow Farm! Almost 40 visitors toured the flower farm on a nearly 90 degree day! Check out the photos below!

Corn fields surround the flower farm, but colorful flower gardens are right around the corner.
Melissa & Jason Fischbach, owners/farmers of Wild Hollow Farm, were happy to greet almost 40 visitors, from age 8-80.
The Fischbach’s showed many flower beds thriving in multiple greenhouses.
One of the plants is an experimental variety of grapes that’s suitable for northern Wisconsin temperatures.
Sturdy sunflowers bring joyful blooms!
Cheerful snap dragons!
We found a four-leaf clover amidst all those plants on the farm!
What’s needed on a flower farm? Plenty of bees!
Blue summer skies on a nearly 90 degree day!

Ashland County Grows!

Food Producers Newsletters

The Ashland County Grows! food producers newsletter started in August of 2024. Our goal is to deliver resources and support to the email inboxes of local food producers & businesses to help grow your networks!

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Summer/Fall 2025 Farm Tours!

Summer/Fall 2025 Farm Tours!

Spring 2025 Food Producers Workshops

Spring 2025 Food Producers Workshops

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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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