A dedicated farmer who wants to educate the children of our country how to grow healthy food, support local farmers and bring back the health of our earth. It’s the education of our children that will change the future of our environment and farming practices. We need to re-introduce the heirloom produce and heritage breeds of our farms from yesterday, to create the farms for tomorrow. Yes we can!!!
Albert Radke should be chosen to be the White House Farmer because he has many years of farming experience. Albert has not only grown up on a dairy farm, he has owned and operated the farm for more than 30 years. He lives in Central Wisconsin right in the heart of the dairyland. Albert is very knowledgeable about planting and farming. He has been doing it his whole life and truly enjoys what he does. That is why he should be chosen to be the White House Farmer. It truly would be an honor.
Mark has a passion for the land and looks for ways to be efficient with energy and resources. Mark and his family work together to reuse and recycle; including moving buildings across town, deconstructing large sheds and rebuilding them, restoring a windmill and rebuilding tractors.
Because Mark is a brilliant innovative farmer and ecologist who’s 144-acre farm is a !00% organic, ecological paradise. Mark grows trees, shrubs, vines, canes, perennial plants and fungi in association with one another to produce food (for humans and animals), fuel, medicines, visual delight and long-term profitability.
Because hands down, he will work the hardest, produce the best looking crops you have ever seen, all organically. And boy how they taste! Out of this world. No one can out farm, farmer John!
David has worked with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture as an attorney and understands the experience and issues of family and corporate farming. The Perkins’ commitment to sustainable farming, community-supported agriculture and pure food products is well noted in the area. This couple also has the capability to create a small productive agriculture space that can demonstrate the state-of -the-art in these vital aspects of local food production. I highly recommend Barb and Dave because of their experience, skill and knowledge of the many aspects of agriculture from the local to the global.
My father should be the White House farmer because if he plants it it will grow. Somehow the crunchy acorns and sad fennel seeds my son collects make their way into pots and rows and flourish. My father’s passion is gardening. He taught agriculture and has always had a garden. In his retirement it is AMAZING–in variety and size. He uses organic practices and gives away as much produce as he uses. Most birthdays, all I want is a bag full of tomatoes because they are so incredible. He has instilled a fascination for growing things in my brother and me as well as my husband, children and cousins and their children. His careers included working for the FDA as an inspector, as an agricultural coop manager, and as an agriculture teacher. If he had done what he loved, he would have farmed and gardened. He does those things now and he is never happier than when he is in the garden–he plans the Wisconsin winter away with seed catalogs. If he plants it, it will grow.
“Growing at the Grassroots is the journey and of my life.”
I consider Richard the dean of CSAs in the upper midwest. Any CSA farmer in and around Wisconsin will know of his farm, and likely will have eaten his produce. He is familiar with the challenges of obtaining and maintaining seed stocks that have not been modified genetically, of marketing fabulous produce to large stores, families, restaurants, and Farmers’ Markets. A very well-rounded farmer.
Bill is the product of seven generations of farmers whose family has spread from the fields of northern Holland to twenty countries and three continents. Experience and a lot, a LOT of family to rely on for advice in any farming situation, climate and crop. Plus he’s a veteran of the Marine Corps and a student Nurse :) He grows Traditional Native American Crops including corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, and also radishes, lettuce, cabbage, beets ,etc in Oak Creek, WI.