Soil Health & Watershed Groups

Yahara Pride Farms

Yahara River Watershed

South Central Wisconsin

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Contact

Contact: Jeff Endres - Farmer, Endres Berryride Farms LLC

Phone: (608) 279-8991

Social Media:

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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