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  • Local Food

    Find what you crave! This is your source for baked goods, convenience foods, and packaged snacks made in Minnesota.

  • Local Farms

    Want to eat well? Eat local. Explore Minnesota farms that sell directly to consumers through CSAs, markets, and their own stores.

  • Artists, Artisans & Authors

    Meet woodworkers, painters, poets, mixed media artists, and more. Who will be your new favorite?

  • Change Makers

    Discover Minnesota’s leaders who don’t follow business as usual. Be inspired by these forces of good in our community.

  • Playing in the Mud: Functional Heirlooms’ Norwegian-Mexican-American Pottery

  • Feeding the Grass for the Best Grass Fed Beef: Blackberry Ridge Farms

  • The Black Radish: Reinventing the Urban CSA, One Yard at a Time

  • Behind the Scenes: How Shared-Use Kitchens Shape Our Local Foodscape

  • Forever Green Initiative at the U of M: Rethinking Minnesota’s Amber Waves of Grain

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Business Owners

  • Lime Street Beckons: Jamie Rae Miller’s Creative Space

    “Lime Street Creative + Co was generated out of the idea that it wouldn’t just be me. It would be a cooperative process,” explained Jamie. “Making deeper connections with my clients becomes an invaluable part of the artwork. It’s something that you simply cannot find through the ‘big box’ stores.”

  • Meet the Microbe Farm-her: Christina Traeger’s Mission to Raise Beef That Heals

    Discover how one Avon, Minnesota farmer is transforming soil, cattle, and lives through nutrient-dense, allergen-friendly, pasture-raised meats. Meat is available at farmers markets, area drop sites, and for on-farm pick up.

  • 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. 

  • A Hustle of Love: X2 Pastries Bakes Their Favorites for You

    St. Paul's X2 Pastries is a “hustle of love” according to Xiong Xiong. “We get to bake for ourselves, the products we think are the most delicious and delightful, and we then share it with all of you.” 

  • 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. 

  • Mochuelo by Elsa: Magical Owls of Fun, Wisdom, Arts, and Healing

    Meet Elsa Sanchez of Mochuelo by Elsa. Learning to sew and creating whimsical and wise owls brought Elsa happiness and healing.

  • Easy Versatile Kernza Scones

  • Lion’s Mane “Lobster” Macaroni and Cheese

  • Kernza Maple Shortbread