..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!
Heritage Acres near Wadena, MN raises turkeys, broiler chickens, layers for eggs and lamb on their 80-acre hobby farm. The sheep dine on pasture and the chickens and turkeys are free range. Poultry dine on wild raspberries and acorns in a wooded pasture.
It’s a great time for Farmers Market produce! There are a lot of great fresh fruits and vegetables available now. Check it out!
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.
Asparagus! I love it! And it’s the season for this wonderful vegetable! I have a couple of recipes - one roasting and another grilling - which are simple and good!
