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  • Local Food

    Find what you crave! This is your source for baked goods, convenience foods, and packaged snacks made in Minnesota.

  • Local Farms

    Want to eat well? Eat local. Explore Minnesota farms that sell directly to consumers through CSAs, markets, and their own stores.

  • Artists, Artisans & Authors

    Meet woodworkers, painters, poets, mixed media artists, and more. Who will be your new favorite?

  • Change Makers

    Discover Minnesota’s leaders who don’t follow business as usual. Be inspired by these forces of good in our community.

  • Playing with Fire: Facepunch Foods Brings Flavorful Heat to the Table

  • Apple Love is for Keeps: Cidery Grows out of Farming Interest

  • Backstreet Country Market: Small Family Beef and Pork Direct to Your Door

  • Lazy Farming? Windhaven Farm Embraces Regenerative Agricultural Practices To Bring The Land to Life

  • Meet Minnesota’s Cottage Food Community: Breaking Down Barriers to Building a Registered Food Business

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Business Owners

  • From Waste to Wonder Wool: Woollets Garden Goodness

    Meet Elaine Becker and Karen Mayhew, the co-founders of Woollets (wool + pellets), two creative problem solvers who converted a waste product into a valued commodity that is a more efficient soil supplement than peat.

  • Meet Your Local Meat: MTRY & Co Delivers Community for Consumers and Producers

    The MTRY & Co’s online marketplace, based in Mankato, offers beef, chicken and pork specialty boxes along with local cheese, spice rubs, and bacon socks that are shipped directly from the producer farms in sustainable packaging.

  • Serving Rural Entrepreneurs: CEDA and RBIL Empower Rural Economic Development

    CEDA and RBIL may be two of Minnesota’s best kept secrets.  Let’s change that. 

  • Craft Beer for Crafty People: Tilion Brewing Calls Cannon Falls Home

    “Cannon Falls has been an amazing partner for building our business,” shares Chris. “They worked with us from the beginning to help us succeed. We have a wonderful synergy with the winery across the street. We’ve worked with CannonBelles since they opened and sell a lot of cheese curds in house. We are grateful to be a part of the Cannon Falls community and are humbled by their support of our work.”

  • Ferndale Market: A Minnesota Food Hub That You Need to Know

    Fern and Dale Peterson started raising free range turkeys in the rolling hills of the Cannon River Valley in 1939. Their turkeys have always been free range and antibiotic free. As trends in commercial turkey farming changed, Ferndale Farm didn’t.

  • CannonBelles Cheese: Locally-Sourced and Internationally Acclaimed

    Since 2022, all of CannonBelles' cheeses come to life at their Cannon Falls plant. They produce 800-1000 pounds of cheese a week, using milk from the fifth generation Otte Family’s Square Deal Dairy in nearby Randolph.

  • Sliced Flat Iron Steak Appetizer

  • Quick Napa Cabbage Sauté

  • One Pot Fresh Tomato Pasta