• Growing to Meet Local Demand: How Brakstad Family Farm Feeds Their Community

    Robyn and Lance along with their daughter Stephanie Kirkham love sharing their farm with the community. At Brakstad Family Farm this takes the form of supplying fresh, nutrient-dense produce and grass fed beef that nourishes their customers. This nourishment reaches people through CSA subscriptions, on site farm store visitors or through the food shelves, grocery stores and farmers markets that carry their products.

  • Fiber Arts: Raising Sheep, Producing Wool, and Finding Community at Get Bentz Farm

    Get Bentz Farm is 30 acres of Cannon Valley goodness to raise Icelandic sheep and discover all the cool things Theresa can make with her own wool.

  • It Starts With the Soil: Hart Country Meat’s Grass Fed Beef

    Jessica and Tony Heiden, along with Tony’s parents, lead the current generations working side by side to raise their herd on healthy pastureland without the use of implanted hormones. Their cattle are finished on hay and corn grown on the farm. 

  • Mushrooms Powered by the Sun: Fiddlehead Knob Farm’s Sustainable Path Forward

    On a rise in southern Minnesota that Rachel Davis’ ancestors called Poverty Knob, Kalvin, Rachel and their three young children raise a myriad of mushrooms at their certified organic ten acre solar- powered farm. 

  • I Went Organic Because of the Soil: Jack Hedin of Featherstone Farm

    Do you know Featherstone Farm’s two secrets to nutritious organic vegetables for their CSA community and wholesale customers?

  • 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.