The planning committee is hard at work creating engaging programming to complement the Smithsonian exhibit including a speaker series, local food dinners, cooking classes, workshops and demonstrations citywide and smaller rotating art and artifact exhibits alongside the national Smithsonian exhibit in the Woolen Mill Gallery, 26 East Main St., Reedsburg. There will also be a Sauk County by Food exhibit that will remain long after the Smithsonian moves on.

Wormfarm and partners will go beyond the subject of food to include Key Ingredients for a thriving rural community. What are those ingredients? How do you or does your business fit in? How can your business take advantage of this high profile opportunity? How can Reedsburg and other rural places leverage the activities that surround this significant cultural event to stimulate new economic development, encourage new partnerships? strengthen existing ones and leave something lasting in its wake?

There will be a public meeting on Thursday March 4, 7:30 AM for anyone who would like to learn more about Key Ingredients and how it might be used to help you do what you already do or serve as impetus to start something new. The meeting will take place at the Reedsburg Area Chamber of Commerce, 240 Railroad Street, Reedsburg. For more information call Kristine Koenecke at the Chamber 524-2850  or Donna Neuwirth at Wormfarm 524-8672.