Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you that have donated to our Sally Mead Hands Foundation Match Drive here at the end of 2025! Today is the final day. We are in the final hours. And we are SO SO SO close! We thought this inspiring photo of our 2024 field day out at Maiv Flower Farm might help to remind you of what the WiWiC Hive will share together in 2026. As of this morning, after a trip to the post office to look for checks, and a tally of our on-line donations,

Dr. Sarah Slaby grew up on a small farm with nine siblings near Arcadia. Her family managed two farms, and the kids - of course! - had daily chores. Before she was a teenager, she was driving tractors and raising calves, and even started her own business: Sarah's Quality Calves. Simultaneously, she was working for and learning from ground-breaking organic veterinarian and author Dr. Paul Dettloff. This idyllic childhood in the agricultural Driftless Region and mentorship by