About Us 

Our Story

Wunberg Produce LLC is co-owned and operated by Kenneth Wundrow and Robert Wesenberg. Combine the last names, and you get “Wunberg”. Our logo is inspired by Ken’s love for pugs and his dad’s overalls, drawn by a longtime artist friend, Bill Nelson, who lives in New York City. We are a regenerative berry farm with cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, honey bees and on-site licensed canning facility.

This adventure began in Winter 2014 when I (Ken) sat down at Rob’s kitchen table at his dairy farm in Fort Atkinson and made a sketch of berry rows from measurements and notes after surveying an acre of land at my dad’s Farm on State Line RD. Rob agreed to buy the plants and my dad agreed to rent to me, saying “this better not turn into a big patch like your gardens when you were a kid”. Rob and I decided to plant strawberries, asparagus, black and red raspberries, pumpkins, and some fruit trees. We converted this old corn field into a berry patch all by hand and with no special machinery. We waited a year for our first product to sell, and were rewarded with strawberries in June of 2015. We never imagined what demand and interest would result from this project. Our success led us to purchase a 25-acre farm on 9219 Lake Shore RD—north of Sharon, Wisconsin.

In 2016 two things happened that propelled the evolution of this adventure. While doing spring weeding in my asparagus patch a childhood friend whom was a director for a major local health care system pulled in the field driveway and asked me if I would be interested in bring some of our produce to some clinics and hospitals for farm markets for health care workers. The second thing was the visit of my dear Aunt Ellen to experience the 2016 strawberry season.  On this visit she needed money so I asked her to make strawberry jam…”oh Boy its been a while” she said she needed a couple lemons and a parrying knife and a two quart of strawberries. She made 8 jars of Strawberry Lemon Jam I immediately took these jars to the road side stand and they sold within an hour.  I ran back to the kitchen and told her we needed more.  Her response was “Kenny, I just made you 8 jars” I said we need more.  That summer she found all her family cook books and started canning all her favorite items and we were in the canning business.  In two 2017 we began the journey to get licensed and fully functional licensed canning kitchen on site.  In 2020 the pandemic began at the same time our online store was complete we offered no contact home delivery.  Our set ups for the health care chain were cancelled due to COVID pandemic so we started attending public farm markets in our area and the business took off.

In 2021 when my father passed away, I inherited his Katahdin Sheep and we acquired our First Registered Belted Galloway Belted beef cattle.  The mobile chicken houses and practices of rotational grazing is all part of our regenerative agriculture that yield the best fruit and protein for our customers.  Its good for you and good for the land.  These practiced principles bring the goodness of the soil to your table.   

Why Berries and Asparagus…

My grandmother, Martha Wundrow, was an avid berry picker she spent hours in the woods and thickets picking berries fighting the thorns and mosquitos and one occasion a bear tells my dad. I have had many businesses; including two hardware stores, a dairy farm, an H&R Block tax office, and an IT consulting business in Kansas City, but I always had the idea of making a berry patch with black raspberries where they would be convenient to pick. I planted asparagus, my late mother’s and my favorite vegetable, everywhere I lived but never stayed any place long enough to see it to being pickable. Now that I am back home in Sharon it was time to stay and plant it in a big way.

Rob has spent his entire life farming and milking cows with his family in Fort Atkinson, New Glarus, and Milton areas. He had a lot of the needed knowledge to the “crop” growing and now uses the new equipment we have at our new location as we expand in a much bigger way. Growing up around conservative traditional farm people he had a lot of the needed knowledge to grow these crops.

We combined our experience, knowledge, and resources to create Wunberg Produce. We thank everyone for the local support and continued patience as we grow this business to serve our community. Learn More →