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February, 20
Playing with Fire: Facepunch Foods Brings Flavorful Heat to the Table
Mark Petersen of Stillwater’s Facepunch Foods fell in love with heat when he was six years old.
Apple Love is for Keeps: Cidery Grows out of Farming Interest
Welcoming visitors of all ages, Nate and Tracy enjoy being a destination for multigenerational families, fermentation aficionados, or day trippers just looking for a change of scenery — their front porch, also known as the Keepsake Cider Tasting Room, truly is a family-friendly site
Backstreet Country Market: Small Family Beef and Pork Direct to Your Door
“We are just a family farm working at preserving our livelihood that is built on a love for good tasting food and creating memories with our family on the farm or around the table,” reflects Tina of Backstreet Market in Gibbon. “We want people to have a great experience eating together. We are so lucky that our products have a place on our neighbors’ tables. That personal connection keeps us going and makes all the work worthwhile.”
Lazy Farming? Windhaven Farm Embraces Regenerative Agricultural Practices To Bring The Land to Life
Alex Green and Vanessa Gillman are the hardest working lazy people you’ve ever met. That’s why Alex and Vanessa believe in the power of regenerative agriculture.
Playing in the Mud: Functional Heirlooms’ Norwegian-Mexican-American Pottery
Ceramics are both beautiful objects and a domestic necessity used in intimate ways. “I love the function of the pieces I create. You are able to eat out of them; you put your mouth to them,” muses Wendy Eggerman of Functional Heirlooms. “How many forms of art do you put your mouth to? How many forms of art do you interact with on that level?”
Feeding the Grass for the Best Grass Fed Beef: Blackberry Ridge Farms
“My biggest surprise in running Blackberry Ridge Farms is how much failure is involved in farming. Nearly every day we say, ‘Okay, that didn't work, what will we do next?,’” shares Erin Gervais. “We are constantly pivoting and innovating. It's so humbling and at the same time incredibly rewarding because many times we do succeed, and success is far sweeter after some failure.”
