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

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

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    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 in the Mud: Functional Heirlooms’ Norwegian-Mexican-American Pottery

  • Feeding the Grass for the Best Grass Fed Beef: Blackberry Ridge Farms

  • The Black Radish: Reinventing the Urban CSA, One Yard at a Time

  • Behind the Scenes: How Shared-Use Kitchens Shape Our Local Foodscape

  • Forever Green Initiative at the U of M: Rethinking Minnesota’s Amber Waves of Grain

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  • Playing in the Mud: Functional Heirlooms’ Norwegian-Mexican-American Pottery

    Ceramics are both beautiful objects and a domestic necessity used in intimate ways. “I love the function of the pieces I create. You are able to eat out of them; you put your mouth to them,” muses Wendy Eggerman of Functional Heirlooms. “How many forms of art do you put your mouth to? How many forms of art do you interact with on that level?”

  • Feeding the Grass for the Best Grass Fed Beef: Blackberry Ridge Farms

    “My biggest surprise in running Blackberry Ridge Farms is how much failure is involved in farming. Nearly every day we say, ‘Okay, that didn't work, what will we do next?,’” shares Erin Gervais. “We are constantly pivoting and innovating. It's so humbling and at the same time incredibly rewarding because many times we do succeed, and success is far sweeter after some failure.”

  • The Black Radish: Reinventing the Urban CSA, One Yard at a Time

    The Black Radish is an urban oasis where sunflowers tower and ripe beans dangle in magical tunnels. Tucked into its south Minneapolis neighborhood, this farm fosters community through the weekly gathering of CSA pickup, the volunteers who make the work possible, and the yards that nourish local residents. 

  • Behind the Scenes: How Shared-Use Kitchens Shape Our Local Foodscape

    "The shared use kitchen sector is, in some sense, a public service that caters to the needs of the local community," explains Jason. "Whether that need is geared towards serving a specific ethnic group, whether it's meant to be affordable kitchen access for startup food businesses, or for scaling businesses that need more warehouse and fulfillment space."

  • Forever Green Initiative at the U of M: Rethinking Minnesota’s Amber Waves of Grain

    An especially unique attribute of the Forever Green Initiative is its focus on commercialization, adoption and scaling. “Broadly speaking, we think of three areas of work: strategy, landscape, and market,” explained Colin. “We need many businesses sourcing these crops, making products and moving them to consumers, either as ingredients or as finished products.”

  • Why Kernza Crackers Matter: Perennial Pantry’s Quest for the Home Cook

    “Bringing an entirely new crop out into the world while making it something that people can easily become familiar with and start to use is fundamentally a very hopeful act,” observed Christopher Abbott of Perennial Pantry.

  • Quick Napa Cabbage Sauté

  • One Pot Fresh Tomato Pasta

  • Easy Versatile Kernza Scones