Placke Organic Acres
Fri, Oct 04
|Cuba City
At Placke Organic Acres, learn about: benefits of a rotational grazing system for the farm and environment, grass-fed dairy, value-added products (soap), making it all work with a 2-person operation, and farm succession planning and how it worked for them.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2019, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Cuba City , 9071 Fever Hill Rd, Cuba City, WI 53807, USA
About the event
Kelly Placke left Wisconsin to pursue her art career in Arizona, traveled extensively, and eventually found her way back to her family farm, Placke Organic Acres. With her parents now retired, Kelly has taken to milking 40 cows on a rotational grazing system and provides milk for Organic Valley grass-fed milk products. Learn about: benefits of a rotational grazing system for the farm and environment, grass-fed dairy, value-added products (soap), making it all work with a 2-person operation, and farm succession planning and how it worked for them.
Photo by Elvis Kennedy, Flickr Creative Commons
grass is good
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Southern Driftless Grasslands Program Manager
(608) 425-0464
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