Our Farm Story

 Our farm crew members have dedicated our lives to practicing symbiotic relationships with the land to meet the needs of the community. For us, food is the foundation of that relationship. 

Caleb and Roxanne met back in 2015 and quickly bonded over our love for organic agriculture. Caleb got his start W.W.O.O.F.ing (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) around the US in 2011. He then came back to West Bend, his hometown, and completed a farming internship at Wellspring Inc in 2012. From there, he started his own poultry business called Blue Wolf Farm and worked as a land manager in Fredonia, WI. By 2016, he was ready to take farming in a new direction and returned to serve as Farm Manager for Wellspring Inc. He served in this role until 2020, when the pressures and instability of the pandemic resulted in the retirement of the nonprofit’s farming endeavors. The board at the time created an incubator farm program, which offered the opportunity for Caleb to form his own LLC and continue growing on the Wellspring campus. He happily accepted, and thus, Winterspring LLC was born. Caleb’s role as farm owner and operator includes everything from field management, customer service, farmer’s markets, bookkeeping, and greenhouse management.

Roxanne got her start through volunteering for a community garden, managing nonprofit educational gardens, and WWOOFing. She formerly served as education director for Wellspring Inc. from 2017-2020. Currently, her role includes herb production, field crew work, greenhouse work, farmer’s markets, deliveries, and marketing.

Nowadays, Riveredge Nature Center owns the Wellspring campus where Winterspring is currently grows. They have graciously continued our contact as an incubator farm through 2025. At that point, we will transition to a new farm site in Allenton, WI.

The farm is blessed to have a strong crew of folks who find their calling in organic agriculture. From our staff to our workershares, everyone brings a little bit of themselves to their role. Each are able to take the experience they gained into their future endeavors, and many come back to work year after year. For information on job opportunities, feel free to visit our Jobs Page.