MASC Work Session in Madison: Badger Rock Neighborhood Center
Mon, Jan 06
|Badger Rock Neighborhood Center
This free session with Rooted at the Badger Rock Neighborhood Center is to help all growers complete the paperwork to apply for the MASC program payment for 2025 crops. Language interpretation specialists will be on hand to help in Hmong/HMoob and Spanish.
Time & Location
Jan 06, 2025, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Badger Rock Neighborhood Center, 517 E Badger Rd, Madison, WI 53713, USA
About the event
Calling all Specialty Crop Growers!
Do you grow vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, seeds, Christmas trees, nursery stock, honey, hops, maple sap, or any other specialty or niche crop for market? Have you heard about the MASC program? This is a rare opportunity being offered through the USDA to get some financial support for these efforts in 2025, but the application period ends January 8. Get help filling out the forms and learn more about what you’ll need to complete an application.
The event is being hosted by Rooted 's Community Garden Network Staff. Network Director Nicholas Leete will provide assistance in Spanish. Yimmuaj Yang of Groundswell Conservancy and Chiang Rai Lor from Fair Share CSA Coalition will provide assistance in Hmong. Growers from Dane County and beyond are welcome to attend - you do not need to own land or already be signed up for federal farm programs to attend or participate…