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February, 4
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.
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?
Backstreet Country Market: Small Family Beef and Pork Direct to Your Door
“We are just a family farm working at preserving our livelihood that is built on a love for good tasting food and creating memories with our family on the farm or around the table,” reflects Tina of Backstreet Market in Gibbon. “We want people to have a great experience eating together. We are so lucky that our products have a place on our neighbors’ tables. That personal connection keeps us going and makes all the work worthwhile.”
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.”
Fresh From the Field: Honeydew Fields Finds the Fertility of Regenerative Agriculture
Honeydew Fields Farm, a regenerative flower farm in Sauk Centre, Minnesota thrives today thanks to a journey in infertility. Lead farmer Leah Bischof knew from a young age that she wanted to farm and that she wanted to be a mom. While she and her husband struggled with infertility, vegetable gardening became a refuge, a place to channel the frustration she felt while they hoped and waited. Wanting to improve her garden, she studied and read. Her research taught her about the need for diversity in her plantings.
Making it Personal: CSAs Nourish Communities Through Foods, Goods, and Local Connections
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms and businesses are real life examples of individuals collaborating at the local level to support the common good and build thriving communities. Through the CSA model a farm becomes the community’s farm.
