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Hi…

..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!

Cornerstone Farms offers meats, vegetables, goat cheese and so much more

Cornerstone Farms offers meats, vegetables, goat cheese and so much more

Stephen and Brittany Springer’s Cornerstone Farms stand at the Battle Lake Farmers Market is full of goodness from meats (pasture raised pork, grass-fed beef and pastured chicken and eggs) to baked goods, kombucha, goat cheese and soaps, baked goods and vegetables!

The couple raise it all on their Henning-area farm.

They’ve been bringing their farm-raised items to farmers markets for the past four years, said Brittany, who serves as Battle Lake Farmers Market president. Besides the Battle Lake market, the two also sell at the Wadena Farmers Market and they will sell at a self-serve stand in henning.

Brittany Springer (foreground) and Mary Pettis are two of the vendors you’ll meet at the Battle Lake Farmers Market. Brittany has a wide variety of pasture-raised meats, eggs, kombucha, goat cheese, jellies and more at her Cornerstone Farms stand. M…

Brittany Springer (foreground) and Mary Pettis are two of the vendors you’ll meet at the Battle Lake Farmers Market. Brittany has a wide variety of pasture-raised meats, eggs, kombucha, goat cheese, jellies and more at her Cornerstone Farms stand. Mary and her husband, Tom, have a host of baked goods from croissants to breads and rolls. The market is at the Railroad Park in Battle Lake Saturdays from 9 to noon.

It may be early in the growing season, a season that’s been delayed by cool, wet weather, but the Springers have Swiss Chard, lettuce, rhubarb and more!

They’ve got an early start on growing thanks to their high tunnel production and they hope to build a green house this year where they will raise vegetables hydroponically resulting in year-round produce.

From Cornerstone Farms’ stand, Brittany also displayed for sale jellies, wheat sourdough bread, cookies and eggs plus kombucha (she also had a root beer kombucha) and goat cheese.

A wide variety of their farm raised meats is available on market day and kept in a mobile freezer unit at the site.

Have a question? Just ask!

Don’t know how to prepare vegetables or meats? They’ll give you tips for flavorful, tender meals.

Visit Cornerstone Farms at the Battle Lake Farmers Market at Railroad Park in Battle Lake on Saturdays from 9 to noon. And visit their Facebook page!


Kesler continues family's strong gardening heritage

Kesler continues family's strong gardening heritage

GrubDudz gives acceptable way to play with your food

GrubDudz gives acceptable way to play with your food