..and welcome from The Local Growers.
Here you will find the stories about those individuals who grow food and make products locally.
These are some of the people I’ve met while looking for good foods - locally grown foods.
I know their journey. It’s one I experienced growing up on our family farm in West Central Minnesota. That farm was diversified. In other words, we raised several things - crops, hogs, dairy and chickens.
Our meals featured the garden produce my mom harvested, canned and froze and the meat, eggs and dairy products we raised.
It was wholesome food!
While I don’t live on that farm anymore, I am always on the search for locally grown foods. I invite you to join me in this great journey.
Let’s go!
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The Millerville Co-op Creamery is one of the remaining Minnesota creameries to produce small batch butter. What makes it to special and sought after? It’s buttery richness! It’s great for cooking and baking and a super spread on toast and lefse!
Larry and Lois Nelson offer sweet spreadable jams and jellies with a bountiful variety of flavors from traditional strawberry jams to raspberry jalapeño. Fun flavors good for spreading on breakfast toast or cooking with…Yum!
Lilac Jelly is a hit at Catina’s Off The Beaten Path, one of the vendors at the Fergus Falls Farmers Market.
Dan Ukkelberg is returning to the Battle Lake Farmers Market after he focused on his college studies. The NDSU ag education major offers eggs, produce and bedding plants at his stand
Russell Kleinschmidt of Kleinschmidt Farms has vegetables ready for sale at the Staples Area Farmers Market.