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Mushrooms Powered by the Sun: Fiddlehead Knob Farm’s Sustainable Path Forward
Fiddlehead Knob continues to increase their annual production to better meet demand in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. To continue their quest to do this sustainably, geothermal heating and cooling is part of the farm vision board.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
