• Happy Food MN: Anna Klimmek’s Food Empowerment Programs

    Happy Food MN and Anna’s new venture of Breakthrough Adventures teach you to eat well with the confidence to cook at home with what you find locally. Anna’s courses contain recipes easily sourced from your neighborhood grocery store. Anna wants you to feel at home in your own kitchen.

  • Little meatballs–big impact: Simek’s is changing the world from the grocery store freezer aisle

    Did you know that every time you purchase a Simek’s product Lindsey Hickey and the rest of the St Paul Park based Simek’s team donates a meal to a Feeding America food bank? What about Simek’s partnership with rePurpose Global to remove an equivalent amount of plastic from the environment as is used in the packaging and shipping of their products?

  • Sweet Dreams: Hacienda San José and Inkakaw Chocolate

    Meet Monica Jimenez of Hacienda San José Chocolate. Her ethically- grown chocolate is sourced from her family's farm in Ecuador. Monica's creative artists turns the chocolate into delectable beverages, treats, and spreads.

  • Sunset Creek Farm: Organically Grown Grains on the Table in a Snap

    Sunset Creek Farms of Albany, Minnesota grows, cleans, and mills grows organic grains to produce a cleaner flour. Enjoy it at home through their convenient and tasty waffle, pancake, cookie, and muffin mixes.

  • Fueling the Local Movement: Crafting Cosmetics and Ethical Food Products on Boomflower Farm

    At Boomflower Farm outside of Kenyon, Minnesota, Katy Lund is on a mission to share high-quality local products with her community, family, and friends.

  • Macaron Magic: Lily Bean Bakery

    Kelly Murphy of Lily Bean Bakery is a macaron enthusiast. She started making macarons in 2017 and “failed miserably the first time”. Refusing to be outsmarted by a pastry...