The Milwaukee River Watershed Clean Farm Families group was formed in 2016 and initially included the Milwaukee River watershed as the project area. The group expanded in 2021 to include all of Ozaukee County except for the Cedar Creek Watershed, which is covered by the Cedar Creek Farmers Producer-led group.
This spring Clean Farm Families hosted a no-till-planter preparation clinic. Fifty-five attendees heard speaker Joe Condon of Prospect Ag Services in Horicon.
Clean Farm Families has established a 35-acre soil-health and cover-crop demonstration site 1.5 miles south of Fredonia, adjacent to Wisconsin Highway 57. The site will enable visitors to compare plots with no-till and cover crops to plots with tillage and no cover crops. Emphasis is placed on achieving healthy soils. Information is collected on crop yield, input costs, changes in physical and chemical soil properties, erosion and runoff. The goal for the demonstration site is to show that no-till along with cover crops