The fall micro-loans totaled $12,700. These three local producers are excited to expand their businesses with the support of the co-op.
- Sonia and Adam Horowitz, owners of Amanita Acres will be renovating their fiber studio and improving their wool processing equipment. This will allow more efficiency to process and produce their products. The farm raises Icelandic sheep, angora goats, and angora rabbits for wool. The Horowitzs sell their products at farmers markets, events, and online.
- Jonathan Walburg is a potter from Washburn, WI who plans to build a small studio that will house a wood fired kiln at his home along Highway 13. He plans to eventually have a destination where people can see where pots are made, experience the fire, and take a piece of this area home. Jonathan focuses uses beach sand from Lake Superior to decorate his functional pottery.
- Clare Hintz, owner of Elsewhere Farm in Herbster, WI will be using her loan to purchase a high-tunnel in order to extend growing season on the farm. Clare’s produce goes to her year-round CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box that supplies up to 30 families with food during the summer, and 13 families during winter.