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Educational Resources

Hands-on agroforestry education in Wisconsin.

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Create a Variety of Specialty Crops

  • Log-Grown Mushrooms (Shiitake, Lion's Mane, Reishi, Maitake) (see Misty Dawn Farm's business plan)
  • Herbals (ginseng, goldenseal, Solomon's seal)
  • Maple Syrup
  • Hazelnut and other nut crops (in areas where maple trees have thinned)
  • Orchard - Vertical tree plantings - Fruit trees, vines, grapes, and berry-producing shrubs (pollination, vinegars, and other potential value-added crops)
  • Composting tea/vermiculture/biodynamic fertilizers
  • Bees for pollination- honey, beeswax, royal jelly, and pollen


Implement conservation practices on the land and provide carbon sequestration programs


  • NRCS EQIP programs
  • Native pollinator habitat
  • Soil health
  • Conservation easement
  • Forestry/agroforestry practices
  • Hoop houses and micro-watering systems
  • Deer browse ex-closures

Learn More

Here are some recourcses 

Learn more here: Shiitake Growers Association

We accept cash, credit/debit cards, and electronic payments like Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

We love dogs, but unfortunately we do not allow pets on the farm due to health and safety concerns.

Expertise and Leadership

Our founder is a single operator and owner of Misty Dawn Farm a 19.1 acre integrated regenerative agroforestry demonstration farm in Janesville, facebook.com/MistyDawnFarm. She is also the president of the Shiitake Growers Association. She has a master's certificate in sustainable leadership from Edgewood College. Ingrid has sat on many professional conservation and farm advisory boards and teams.

Teaching and Fundraising Success

Our founder loves sharing the knowledge she has gained with others and leads a variety of workshops and field days around the United States. Ingrid recently joined the Wisconsin Women in Conservation (WIWiC) team to help other women farmers assess and implement potential conservation practices on their land. Over the years, Ingrid has successfully raised over 3.5 million in grant funding for various other Not-for-profit organizations and projects and is now asking for funding assistance for her own.

Animals that are incorporated in the daily working of the farm for products, agrotourism, and fertilizer.


  • Pygora goats, Shetland, Finn-Ramboulette, and Icelandic sheep (weed control, manure, and fiber)
  • Pony/Burro (agrotourism, manure)
  • Chickens and ducks (eggs and compost)
  • Bees (pollination and honey)

Host educational and eco-tourism events


  • Education/demonstration/mentoring
  • Processing facility community rental
  • Rescue animals (barn and fences)
  • Ecotourism—Buildings: Tree houses, education facility, and visitor bathroom

Marketing strategy


  • Agrotourism—Adopt a maple tree; you pick and inoculation events
  • Direct sales of products
  • CSA farmers
  • Restaurants, Caterers
  • Farmers markets
  • Value-added products
  • Holiday gift boxes
  • Commercial kitchen rental

Roots and Respect for the Earth

Sharing Knowledge and Preserving a Legacy

Roots and Respect for the Earth

As the child of European immigrant parents with roots in the land, our founder learned a deep sense of the care and respect due to the earth and its creatures, in all their diversity, and the critical need to sustain it. She dedicated her career to environmental conservation, working and teaching best practices in water resources management to farmers and interested citizens.

A Life-Changing Revelation

Sharing Knowledge and Preserving a Legacy

Roots and Respect for the Earth

Then one day our founder had a revelation of sorts. She was clearing the “waste” left behind after we had a timber harvest on land she owned when she decided she would learn to grow shiitake mushrooms on those logs. She became passionate about the amazing benefits and regenerative properties of mushrooms for the earth and people.

Sharing Knowledge and Preserving a Legacy

Sharing Knowledge and Preserving a Legacy

Sharing Knowledge and Preserving a Legacy

As president of the Shiitake Growers Association, we conduct lectures and training across the Midwest, sharing our knowledge and inspiring others to embrace growing mushrooms and sustainable farming practices. This life-changing experience set our founder on the path where she now finds herself, many years later, still hard at work when s

As president of the Shiitake Growers Association, we conduct lectures and training across the Midwest, sharing our knowledge and inspiring others to embrace growing mushrooms and sustainable farming practices. This life-changing experience set our founder on the path where she now finds herself, many years later, still hard at work when she might be “retired,” and trying desperately to preserve a legacy of regenerative agriculture.

Capital Needs and Priorities

What do we need? Capital. Your contribution will go toward essential infrastructure, crop diversity, community education, and agritourism opportunities. Our production facilities and equipment need work, as does the agroforestry demonstration site. Storm damage remains, and we need to put fallen trees into service growing more mushrooms.

Join Our Story

By joining us in preserving this legacy of love and resilience, you become part of a movement that nurtures both land and soul. Your interest and support mean the world to us.  We thank you and warmly invite you to visit the farm and become part of our story.

Horses and animals in snow.

Clark is a Halflinger

His breed traveled a long way from the Tyrolean mountains in northern Italy/southern Austria to America. Clark is a small draft horse designed to work in rough terrain.


Clark was rescued from a kill pen in Texas when he was one year old and traveled with his bonded burro buddy Lewis from Texas through Iowa into Wisconsin to Evanescent Mustang Rescue. He and his buddy Lewis were adopted by Ingrid, and he has found his forever home in Janesville, Wisconsin, at Misty Dawn Farm, a working agroforestry farm where he will drive wagons and help on the farm. He is still learning manners, so he isn’t here at the horse show yet, but someday you will see him here driving a cart with his Draft Horse Enthusiast family.

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Donkey and horse in snow.
Large horse standing in field.

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