Soil Health & Watershed Groups
Yahara Pride Farms
Yahara River Watershed
South Central Wisconsin
Contact
Contact: Jeff Endres - Farmer, Endres Berryride Farms LLC
Phone: (608) 279-8991
Mission
Our Purpose
Yahara Pride Farms is a farmer-led, not-for-profit organization working to improve soil and water quality. We strive to help advance new ideas and technology that balance water quality improvement with farm sustainability and profitability.
What We Strive to Do:
- Create a mechanism to recognize farmer-led environmental sustainability, reward farmers for good stewardship, track collective progress in conservation and demonstrate watershed advancement.
- Through our farmer network of information sharing, help inform the agricultural industry of new water quality rules, laws and issues.
- Earn the trust and respect of farmers, private citizens and government through engaging them in our projects and educational programs that demonstrate how the agricultural industry is committed to doing its fair share in making improvements in the watershed.
- Create the Yahara Pride brand and grow its recognition among both urban and rural communities.
News & Stories
Watershed or Service Area Map
About Us
Growing a Group:
- Active group 5+ years
- Book sharing
- Farmer-led group
- Formed a new group
- Fundraising
- Grant writing
- Member-led project planning
- Neighbor to neighbor mentoring
- Personal invitations to neighbors to grow the group
- Other
Collaboration:
- Actively participated in local watershed planning process
- Collaboration with agriculture or conservation organizations
- Collaboration with local ag retailers and/or crop advisors
- Collaboration with local civic groups
- Collaboration with local college or university
- Other
Outreach:
- Engage local schools
- Media interviews
- Presentation to groups
- Promotion to media outlets
- Social media cultivation
- Video Development
- Website Development
- Other
Land & Water:
- Bioreactors
- Cover crops
- Crop diversification
- Floodplain restoration
- Grass waterways
- Grazing
- Nutrient management & retention
- Perennial crops
- Prairie strips
- Saturated buffers
- Stream buffers
- Stream restoration
- Water retention basins
- Wetlands
- Other
Assessment & Data:
- Agronomic data collection
- Field edge data collection
- Field walkovers
- Stream monitoring
- Other
Events:
- Fishing event
- Farm field days
- Paddle event
- Upstream or downstream connections/visits
- Booth at local event
- Other
Fishers & Famers Partnership Program Participation:
- Workshop
- Neighbor to Neighbor Radio Podcast
- Boots on the Ground Online Conversation
- Group Presentation
- Project Tour
- Featured in a Story
- Featured in a Video
- Meetings
- None
Additional Photos
Photo: Flickr user wackybadger, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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