Our mission: As a non-profit education organization, we support activities that help people “live in peace and harmony with themselves, others and the earth.” 
Mary Ann Ihm, Founder

Wellspring…..Seeds of Change
This year, Wellspring celebrated 40 YEARS!  The organization was founded in 1982 by Mary Ann Ihm to promote her vision. In Spring, 1988 the operation moved from Milwaukee to Newburg, WI to a property nestled in the Milwaukee River Valley.  There are 33 acres of gardens and nature trails, woods and meadows, and ponds and prairies that are teaming with a wide variety of wildlife.  Additionally, with a 6-acre certified organic vegetable farm, Wellspring is home to the longest running CSA in Wisconsin.  
 The Wellspring Board of Directors is committed to protecting and nurturing Wellspring’s natural resources as well as to supporting the continuation of the CSA providing the community access to healthy locally grown produce. 
​However, there are new challenges........
 COVID-19 has impacted us all and Wellspring is no exception.  With safety as our primary objective, the staff has made important accommodations in order to carry out key Wellspring activities in 2021 and now in 2022.  Over the last year, we have identified specific directions for Wellspring that will take us into the future. 

•  The CSA continues and grows - same great Farmer (Caleb Trainor), same great produce!  Wellspring has transferred the farm enterprise to Caleb Trainor who launched Winterspring, LLC in January, 2021.  This is an innovative model incubator farm that operates on the Wellspring grounds. Caleb successfully continued his good work with organic, sustainable, and regenerative agriculture to provide the community with locally grown and harvested organic produce.  Wellspring, Inc. continues to provide support to Caleb in this endeavor and hope that shareholders do the same. 

Link with Winterspring, LLC to learn more about and enroll in
the CSA!  https://www.winterspringcsa.com 
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• The Board of Directors, on behalf of Wellspring Founder, Mary Ann hIm, has been working collaboratively with Land Trusts and similar organizations that share the same goals of conservation and preservation of Wellspring in perpetuity for people to always have a place to connect and commune with nature.  Two major initiatives include (1) creation of a conservation easement through Greenseams and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to protect and preserve Wellspring and (2) working with Riveredge, our next door neighbor, to deliver education programs and plan for future collaborations that further shared interests and goals.

The Wellspring Board of Directors, Joseph Mantoan, Terri Schiller and Amy Otis-Wilborn, will continue to share our progress in creating Wellspring's future.  Our commitment is to sustain and to grow Wellspring in ways that support creating a place “for all to live in peace and harmony with themselves, others and the earth.”  In line with this vision is continued support for the conservation and preservation of Wellspring as a natural space that educates and feeds us in so many ways.  As well, we pledge our support to Caleb and his new LLC, Winterspring.

Special thanks to Dr. Bronners Family Foundation! 

Since 2004, the Dr. Bronner Foundation has generously supported our work in all things local food - because of this, we have been able to do so much work over the years that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Over one-hundred Farmers-in-Training, thousands of youth and adults engaged in hands-on learning, we can say with certainty that Wellspring is and has been making a serious impact on the local food system in Wisconsin. 

Donations - please mail to Wellspring, 4382 Hickory Rd., West Bend, WI 53090.