
Who We Are
Badger State Farms LLC is not your traditional farm - our goal is to raise funds and help support our country, community, and world. We pride ourselves for being an educational farm located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Our residents include: goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys, quail, and geese. Our farm consists of 16 varieties of berry plants, 15 types of fruit trees, a garden, and a wheelchair-accessible educational workshop facility (opening 2025).
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Our sister location is located in Stratford, WI. Our Stratford Location - Badger State Farms Services LLC offers daily appointments for your health, life, dental, vision, annuities, and other insurance needs. (Sorry we do not offer home or auto insurance). Healthcare appointments can also be set up at Badger State Farms in Wisconsin Rapids via appointment at your home or another agreed-upon location. Donna is a registered agent writing policies for Wisconsin residents. Call or book your online appointment with Badger State Farms Services LLC today at 715-383-7294. Our second location is also where our handyman services are based - call Mike today to schedule your repair work at 715-687-4458.​
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Badger State Farms LLC aims to educate people about animal care and where their food comes from while helping underprivileged individuals within our country, community, and world. For the past ten years, Ashley has spent thousands of hours serving others globally; the intent is to positively impact our world. "One of the things I love the most is how these mission trips change attendees' perspectives on life and the future. I hope one day, the impact I have made will rub off on attendees, and they will create forever change within our world," says Ashley.
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2025 Season Schedule:
NOW ACCEPTING FOOD SHARE HOLDERS FOR 2025 - (Like a CSA but with so much more)​
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Chicks, Bunnies, Goats, Ducklings, Turkey and available (Feb-Oct)
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Free Interactive Library - open whenever we are open
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Goat Yoga, Art on the Farm, and Baby Animal Play, Homeschool Educational Sessions (Feb 15th-June 1st)
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Easter Egg and Scavenger Hunt with real bunny activities (April 1st-May 1st)
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Farmstand Open May-October
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Plant Sale - Flowers and Fresh Veggies (May 6-20th)
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Farm Fresh - Food Shares (May-October)
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- Volunteer trip to Africa - June
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Trip to Kentucky - Noah's Ark
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Fall Activities on the farm
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Fall Color Leaf Retreats - Northern WI
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Project: Everyone deserves Love for Christmas
If you want to come on any of our trips with us or have us lead a trip for you to Africa, Fiji, Dominican Republic: please message us right away badgerstatefarms@gmail.com
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We are currently raising funds for Kunda Village Kids Ministry in Rwanda. The money will go towards buying sewing machines that will allow the women to generate income which will create a self-sufficient way of paying for the children's food. Kunda Village Kids Ministry is an orphanage organization based in Burima in Gisenyi, Rwanda. The organization's mission is to provide food, education, and support for orphans and children from financially and socially challenged backgrounds. Currently, Kunda Village Ministry is providing support to more than 200 children.
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Registration is now open for our 2025 Volunteer Trips:
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​June-July 2025 (Guests can join for 7, 10, or 21 days) Kenya and Rwanda
A few activities include: Projects at orphanages, playing with children, spending time with locals, Sunday worship and all day in a Baptist/Evangelist church, culinary experience, genocide history, safari, potential to add on gorilla trekking activities
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At this time, we are not a 501c3 - meaning we cannot over you a tax deduction - however, this allows our farm to have lower costs for guests, while running our farm the way that works best for our family and the public who support our farm's goals. If you would like to pay the nonprofit fees for us please let us know. If you are looking at volunteering with us please reach out.​
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Our free interactive library will be open for the 2025 season. If you have any items for that area please drop them off at the farm.
Other items we need: Life size Sudoku or other Outdoor Games, Corn Hole Game, Outdoor Seating Chairs, Fencing - 5-6 foot tall, T-posts, Baby Chick Broader, Stamps, Empty Egg Cartons, Canning or Syrup Jars (Pints, Quarts, Half Gallons), 2 Hammocks, Dixie Cups
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THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORT US SO FAR! WITHOUT YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE PROGRAMS HAPPEN - CONSIDER SUPPORTING TODAY!​
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2025 Staff/Volunteer Opportunities​​
Natural Resource/Food Production Intern – Option for Paid PCI eligible UWSP Students or Volunteer
As a Natural Resource and Food Production Intern one of your goals will be to help eradicate 2-3 invasive species from the farm. Burn Nettle – Stinging Nettle and Thistles. You may also have an opportunity to work with eradicating Mullen. You will be expected to help figure out a way to eradicate these invasive species. We tried sprays a few years ago and a tarping method with no success. You may want to pull all the weeds, or we are open to trying other methods you may have learned about or researched in school.
You will also oversee maintaining gardens – planting, harvesting, maintaining, watering, weeding, mulching and creating new raised beds. Along with working on ph levels for a variety of fruit plants and vegetables and assisting in packing food shares. You will have the ability to lead a few gardening/natural resource workshops for the public if desired along with creating an interactive game/informational detail for guests to learn about the gardens, animals, and natural programs.
From time to time this internship will require you to assist with milking animals, feeding animals, and assisting in other ways. ​
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Educational Marketing Intern – Option for Paid PCI Eligible UWSP Student or Volunteer
As our educational marketing intern your goal is to help grow our programs. You will be responsible for developing a marketing strategy, promoting programs, setting program dates, creating an interactive game/activity for guests for each item we have on the farm, designing graphics, and you will help oversee our Farm Pen Pal and Forever Loved Letters Program. You will be expected to write recipes/etc for food shareholders, bring in 20 new Farm Pen Pal program recipients during your time on the farm and start to develop our 2026 calendar and planner items.
You may be asked to assist with some programs from time to time, especially if you are passionate towards one or want to start a new program. From time to time this position will require you to assist with other farm items including animal care, milking, and assisting in the gardens.
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Volunteer Opportunities - we can complete required internship or volunteer program forms if desired
Artists: Are you passionate about agriculture and art. We are looking for someone or a group that can paint a few murals on our walls within our educational workshop area that will be seen by most people who visit our facility. We would also like a few wooded cutout designs created and painted for Guest Photo Opportunities -you will need to design/create these. Keep in mind, we do have a variety of handicapped guests so making sure accommodate wheelchairs in the design would be appreciated. Depending on design this may require fundraising assistance. If you would like to make it a volunteer internship and need additional hours for your program, we are looking for artists to paint/draw some of the animals for our greeting areas and can draw for our Forever Loved and Farm Pen Pal Program.
Construction: We are looking for someone who can help build outdoor rabbit hutches, handicap-accessible raised garden beds, benches fencing, assisting with putting together a carport, build up raised garden beds.
Writers: Are you looking for an opportunity to write in our Farm Pen Pal Program. If so, please let us know.
Fundraiser: Are you good at fundraising or want to help us raise funds for our programs? Programs we need help fundraising for. Finalizing our handicap-accessible workshop area, Farm Pen Pal and Forever Loved Programs, Meal Exchange Programs, Goat Yoga Fencing, and Low-income holder shares. If you help raise enough funds for our programs we can look at this role being a paid position as well.
Music: Are you good at playing music and want to play on the farm for a few days in 2025. If so, we would love to allow you to play music during a few of our activities or set up a few farm music days. We are a small facility helping small groups so we would not expect more than 10-20 people to come to enjoy your mini concert. You are welcome to play by yourself or with a group. Concerts would be outside only and if you would like we could have the goats and a few animals nearby or we could just enjoy music in an oasis-like area. Message us to work out the details.
International Trip Leader: You can assist with just one trip or all. Our next trip leader assistance would be welcome for Africa – June 2025. Thereafter, we will be going back to Dominican Republic and Fiji Islands in 2026. These trips are affordable volunteer trips at orphanages, farming projects, and cultural and local experiences. If you would like to volunteer on any trip and not lead that is encouraged as well. Our goal is to help change our country, community, and world. Will you help change our world? You will need to fundraise your trip cost.
Meal Exchange Program Leader: Would you like to help lead/assist with our meal exchange program? We meet the first Thursdays of the month and need assistance with meals that might be brought for the exchange, Stay and Play activities, and delivering extra meals to recent surgery patients. This program may require you to work with Marshfield Clinic, Aspirus, and other Wisconsin Rapids healthcare facilities.
Gardening Assistance: Do you want to get your hands dirty? If so, we could use your assistance with weeding and caretaking the gardens.
Animal Assistance: Are you passionate about animals, animal assistance may include but not limited to caretaking for animals, milking, training, nail care, and playing.
Do you have other ideas for how you might be able to assist? Message us today at badgerstatefarms@gmail.com
Please email us if you are interested in any of the position posted above or have another way in which would you like to assist. Please provide a call-back number and a few good times we can connect. All calls will come from 715-869-3223. For in-person opportunities, we will further proceed with in-person meeting/interview. You must be able to pass a background check and be okay around children.
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Per Wisconsin Statute 895.524 (2)(a)2: “Notice: A person who observes or participates in an agricultural tourism activity on this property assumes the risks inherent in the agricultural tourism activity. Risks inherent in the agricultural tourism activity may include conditions on the land, the unpredictable behavior of farm animals, the ordinary dangers associated with equipment used in farming operations, and the potential that a participant in the agricultural tourism activity may act in a negligent way that may contribute to injury or death. The agricultural tourism provider is not liable for the injury or death of a person involved in an agricultural tourism activity resulting from those inherent risks.”