Why Kernza Crackers Matter: Perennial Pantry’s Quest for the Home Cook
Community Sourcing: River Rock Kitchen & Baking Co Keeps it Local in St Peter
Small Batch Specialty Roasts: Walnut Grove’s Half Pint Coffee Co
Mushrooms Powered by the Sun: Fiddlehead Knob Farm’s Sustainable Path Forward
Courage & Clay: Much More Than Earrings
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Small Batch Specialty Roasts: Walnut Grove’s Half Pint Coffee Co
Freshly opened in June 2024, Half Pint Coffee Company brings a new coffee house to downtown Walnut Grove. The menu includes a full coffee bar featuring Half Pint Coffee Co’s freshly roasted beans along with baked treats, smoothies, teas and hand scooped ice cream.
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 two young children (soon to be three in January!) raise a myriad of mushrooms at their ten acre solar- powered farm.
Beth Dooley: Cooking Perennially to Bring Sustainable Change
“I’m not that great a cook. I’m a really good shopper,” laughs Beth Dooley, James Beard award-winning food writer, author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Star Tribune columnist, and a regular contributor to MPR.
Celebrating the Thorny Parts: The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Climate Challenge in “Brambletown”
“We tried over and over and over again to write a song about climate change. It’s really hard to do that, especially for kids,” explained Joe. “In the end the song ‘Trouble in Paradise’ reflected more than just climate change. It ended up surprising us that the song was about a world that was living by the narrative of separation.”
Customizing Her Happy Place: Beth Sahli of Umbrella Custom Woodworking
The work that it takes to turn raw wood into a custom handwriting piece or a Montessori kitchen tool all serves as a metaphor for life’s journey at Umbrella Custom Woodworking.
Celebrating Minnesota (and Wisconsin’s) Turophiles with Forage to Fromage
Kerry, a Certified Cheese Professional, and Mike, who works as a Global Dairy Technology Manager for Cargill Animal Nutrition, create custom events that take you on a tasty tour of the delicious world of cheese. Both are graduates of the University of Wisconsin who grew up in our neighbor to the east. Minnesota, however, has been home for nearly 30 years, giving them lots of time to discover a plethora of favorite cheeses throughout the land of 10,000 lakes.