Written by Hannah Alden, Communications Specialist On a warm, breezy day in mid-April, Sarah Leong and Patrick Hager were busy planting onions with their field crew. Tucked away off the hilly backroads just outside of Mount Horeb, Sarah and Pat’s Squashington Farm is known not only for producing a plethora of vegetable varieties but also for cultivating community. The couple met in 2012 while working on a trail crew in the Adirondacks of New York. Sarah, raised in Florida, had never...

Wisconsin Farmers Union Foundation has launched a new public education initiative, “Wisconsin Futures,” featuring a new website and a statewide billboard campaign aimed at helping people better understand how policy decisions shape everyday life in rural communities and across Wisconsin. The initiative is designed as an educational resource that connects the dots between policy and real-world impacts. The WisconsinFutures.com website serves as a central hub, bringing together issue...

On April 9, 2026 Governor Tony Evers signed Assembly Bill 759, now Wisconsin Act 240, into law, allowing recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to obtain certain occupational credentials for high-need jobs.