• 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

  • 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.”

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

    The Black Radish is an urban oasis where sunflowers tower and ripe beans dangle in magical tunnels. Tucked into its south Minneapolis neighborhood, this farm fosters community through the weekly gathering of CSA pickup, the volunteers who make the work possible, and the yards that nourish local residents.