The Farm Collective:

Turtle Creek Gardens currently aggregates products from 8-10 small organic farms in southern Wisconsin and facilitates their collaborative marketing through our online Farm Store, Farmer’s Market, and wholesale venues under the banner of The Farm Collective.

Collaborative marketing:

• Fosters reciprocal relationships between farmers that leverage each farm’s expertise and resources.

• Allows farms to reduce their tillage by specializing in a few crops and letting more of their land rest and regenerate.

• Reduces the need for every farm to own specialized equipment to process multiple crops and/or hire sufficient help for multiple labor-intensive crops.

• Enables farms to share each other’s established and diverse markets.

• Enables more isolated farms to increase their markets without spending more time and resources on off-farm travel.

It’s long been common for like-minded farms buy, sell, or trade with each other. The Farm Collective seeks to raise consumer awareness about the value of that connectedness and collaboration, promoting a broader vision of local food as a community effort.