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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.

  • 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

  • Courage & Clay: Much More Than Earrings

  • The Hands That Shape: Shaping an Artistic Vision

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Business Owners

  • The Gathering Place: Live the Lake Life at Pine River’s Heath’s Resort

    Heath’s Resort is the sort of place where generations of families gather to celebrate summer and each other. They boat to dinner, play sand volleyball, watch kids play on the beach from their cabin porch, debate which fishing spot is the luckiest, and soak up the magic that is lake season. 

  • Pine River Bakery: Find Your Happy Donuts Here

    Pine River Bakery is a cozy oasis that beckons you to imagine your dessert possibilities with inviting glass cases filled with breads, cookies and donuts of every shape shape and size. The air is rich with a delectable combination of yeasty warmth and house made soups.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Three Bean Salad with Swiss Chard

  • Kohlrabi and Cabbage Stir Fry with Pork

  • Mixed Up Taco Filling