Meet The Makers

  • 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.

  • From Waste to Wonder Wool: Woollets Garden Goodness

    Meet Elaine Becker and Karen Mayhew, the co-founders of Woollets (wool + pellets), two creative problem solvers who converted a waste product into a valued commodity that is a more efficient soil supplement than peat.

  • 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.

  • Serving Rural Entrepreneurs: CEDA and RBIL Empower Rural Economic Development

    CEDA and RBIL may be two of Minnesota’s best kept secrets.  Let’s change that.