**FARM STAND GUIDE UPDATE: We’re getting REALLY close!**

We’ve been doing a LOT of work behind the scenes on the new **Rural Northeast Wisconsin Farm Stand Guide**, and it’s finally starting to look and work like the tool we imagined.

So… where are we at?

Real farm stand listings are LIVE

You can filter by what you’re looking for

Filter by products, payment options, days open, farm experiences & more

Each stand can share hours, location information, products and other helpful details

“Get Directions” is working

It works on desktop AND mobile

We’re still tweaking, testing and adding features as we find things that can work better

And THIS is exactly why we launched with such a ridiculously low introductory price.

We need REAL farms and farm stands with REAL differences to help us find the things we never would have thought of while building it.

Someone who primarily sells eggs

A farm selling meat

An orchard or larger produce stand

Someone selling cottage-law foods, canned goods or baked goods

Dairy, cheese or other farm products

Honey or maple syrup

A mobile farm stand

An honor-system/unmanned stand

WIC/Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participating stands

Regularly scheduled farmers markets or vendors

**AND we need FARM EXPERIENCES!**

We’re talking about places families can actually **GO and experience the farm**:

Sunflower or flower fields

Pumpkin patches

Corn mazes

U-Pick fruits or vegetables

Animal encounters/petting farms

Farm tours

Orchards

Seasonal photo opportunities

…and whatever other unique farm adventures are hiding around rural Northeast Wisconsin!

**Those are the listings we could REALLY use sooner rather than later.**

Every different kind of listing helps us test the guide BEFORE we call the infrastructure finished.

And once we know it works?

**The introductory price WILL go up.**

The current price doesn’t cover what we’re spending to build this. It exists because the farms joining us NOW are doing more than buying advertising—they’re helping us build and test something we hope will benefit local farms AND local families for years.

And here’s the part I’m especially excited about…

This isn’t going to be a random directory sitting by itself on the website.

Imagine you’re checking RuralNEWfamilies.com because the kids want something to do Saturday.

You find a festival, fair, park or other adventure…

Then you discover there’s a sunflower field nearby.

And there’s a farm stand five minutes down the road where you can grab sweet corn, eggs and fresh baked goods – Roadside Stands make the BEST Road Snacks for the way home. (What’s your favorite “weird” road snack?

THAT is what we’re building.

Local Family FUN

Local Farm EXPERIENCES

Local FOOD

One website helping families turn an ordinary Saturday into an entire rural adventure—while putting more visitors and dollars into the farms and small businesses that make our communities special.

We’re not done yet.

But we’re close enough now that we need MORE farms, stands and experiences to help us finish this right.

Have a farm stand OR farm experience? NOW is the time to get in while we’re still offering the introductory rate.

Don’t have one? You can still help tremendously: tag a farm, farmer, roadside stand, orchard, pumpkin patch, U-Pick or farm experience we should know about!

Especially one that fills one of the gaps above.

Let’s build something that makes it easier to keep Northeast Wisconsin families happy, exploring…and FED.

Find Your Local Farm Stand Guide Here (sign up here too)