The winner of the Naturally Rising Wisconsin Pitch Slam competition is RecPak founder and veteran Deed Ziegler, with runners up Michael Anagnos of Yaya’s Skordalia (second place) and Hannah Kopplin of Tots on the Street (third place)
May 20, 2025
Farm Investment
April 2, 2025
Meet the 2025 Spring Food Brand Business Fellows!
We’re thrilled to welcome 15 food businesses into the 2025 FFI Fellows Program as of April 2025! This program provides free training and consulting to 45 food-focused entrepreneurs each year to help them succeed.
January 29, 2025
What Is the Right Scale for a Farm?
by Anna Thomas, FFI Farm Finance Specialist This blog is published in conjunction with a 2025 Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference roundtable on the same subject, led by FFI Farm Program Manager Andy Larson.
April 21, 2023
Meet the Spring 2023 FFI Food Business Fellows and watch for Summer cohort!
MADISON — The Food Finance Institute (FFI) excitedly enters year two of their Fellows program and year seven of providing programming designed to accelerate food-focused business growth.
December 15, 2020
Project to help diverse, beginning farmers access more money
A newly funded project, led by UW System’s Food Finance Institute (FFI), is on a mission to lower the risk of beginning farm investments to make them more attractive to funders.