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SOS Save Our Songbirds

SOS Save Our Songbirds is an action campaign empowering Wisconsinites to take 3 actions at home to help birds: add native plants good for birds; prevent birds from colliding with problem home windows, and drink bird-friendly coffee a few days a week. The campaign is an initiative of the Wisconsin Bird Conservation Partnership and Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance serves as fiscal sponsor.

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Woollets, LLC

Woollets is a women founded, owned and operated small business located just outside of Argyle, WI. Their mission is to foster resilient food systems, revive the Midwestern wool market, and scale a sustainable alternative to carbon-intensive and synthetic fertilizers through the use of waste wool as a natural fertilizer and water conservation tool.

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Bee-utiful Honey

Bee-utiful Honey provides all the info you need for Backyard Beekeeping. We have Local Raw Honey for sale and also Beeswax Candles. Bee-utiful Honey is committed to beekeeping in a way that supports our small business enterprise, maximizes wellbeing for bees, and produces high quality local honey, while taking care of the environment and passing knowledge about bees to future generations.

Spanish Speaking Exhibitor

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PermacultureWorks Cooperative/Madison Area Permaculture Guild

We work to catalyze the shift into sharing, propagation, implementation, and celebration of permaculture principles, ethics, processes, and practices throughout the bioregion. Our work is manifested through engagement, education and community building, as well as the implementation of Permaculture Design for perennial food production, integrated water management, soil building, and healthy habitat development – all toward reintegration of people with community and nature.

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Wisconsin Purple Martin Association

Our mission is “To Restore And Preserve The Purple Martin Population Across Wisconsin”. We assist and support people who want to attract and maintain martins to their property, as well as do outreach regarding purple martin information.

Spanish Speaking Exhibitor

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Field and Forest Products

Mushroom cultivation supply company providing organic spawn, tools and advice to both hobbyists and commercial growers.

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Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin (BRAW)

BRAW has been in existence since 1986 and we are celebrating our 40th Anniversary! BRAW seeks to expand public knowledge and enthusiasm for the Eastern Bluebird so more people will have the desire to aid cavity nesters and have the knowledge about how to best accomplish this in their own communities. We have Bluebird experts available during the Expo and will have nesting boxes, literature and other supplies to purchase.

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Good Oak Ecological Services

Good Oak is a Madison based ecological restoration and sustainable landscaping company. We work to restore native plant communities and install native landscapes throughout southern Wisconsin.

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Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin (IPAW)

The Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin (IPAW) is a non-profit, membership-based organization whose mission is to promote better stewardship of the natural resources of Wisconsin by advancing the understanding of invasive plants, preventing their introduction, and encouraging the control of their spread.

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Wisconsin Food Forests

We are sustainable landscape designers, gardeners, locavores, naturalists, and enthusiasts who want to see food forests all over Wisconsin and beyond. We plant edible and native plants to inspire you to do the same.