Produce with a Purpose owner educates others on how food is grown

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The business evolved from a small farm to a community-supported agriculture program, eventually offering customizable produce boxes.

Owner Rick Slager adapted the business model by moving from farming to a wholesale and retail operation in Kaukauna.

The current business includes a retail shop, a commercial kitchen for ready-to-eat meals, and weekly popup markets.

Rick Slager, owner of Produce with a Purpose in Kaukauna, grew up growing food. He would sit with his father, Don, every year and pick out seeds to be used at the family farm.

That love of growing produce remained with him as he pursued his first business, Slager Lawn and Landscape, a business that he operated from 1997 to 2010. Then, what he describes as a midlife crisis, struck.

Slager said, “I wanted