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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.

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  • Celebrating Their “Minnesota Roots”: Cookbook by Jennifer Switzer and Megan Stezka

    Celebrate the best food Minnesota has to offer with the new cookbook “Minnesota Roots” by Jennifer Switzer and Megan Stezka. This mother-daughter collaboration combines Jennifer’s food memories growing up on a farm in rural Minnesota with photographs by Megan.

  • Happy Food MN: Anna Klimmek’s Food Empowerment Programs

    Happy Food MN and Anna’s new venture of Breakthrough Adventures teach you to eat well with the confidence to cook at home with what you find locally. Anna’s courses contain recipes easily sourced from your neighborhood grocery store. Anna wants you to feel at home in your own kitchen.

  • Homemade Happiness: Heartland Hooga Bakeshop Bakes from the Heart for the Stomach

    Jessica Babiar, the founder of in-home cottage bakeshop Heartland Hooga, has many core memories centered on food. Her love of baked goods started with holidays featuring handmade treats from her family. This highlight helped nurture a love of baked goods and linked them as a love language.

  • Art From the Heart: Ziggy’s Art Bus Delivers Art to Those Who Need it Most

    Ziggy’s Art Bus offers kids and their families an escape into art. Traveling throughout the Twin Cities metro since 2019, Ziggy’s provides art experiences for children with life-threatening conditions at their own homes and wherever the kids receive medical support.

  • A New Way to Grocery Shop: Be the Good at the Good Grocer

    The team at Good Grocer wants to know: Can a grocery store can change the world? Kurt Vickman, the founder of Good Grocer, shared why he sees providing accessible food as the driving force for the store.

  • Legacy Building: Lara Cornell’s Artistic Business Vision

    From her own botanical paintings to the coaching she provides artists and artisans, Lara Cornell challenges her community to consider the long-term impact of their work. Impact includes eco-impact, social justice, equality, biodiversity, and economic questions. Lara disrupts the myth of the starving artist in order to empower creatives to found sustainable, economically-sound businesses that make the world a little more fair.