..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!
All tagged cheese
It was a first for Leon: pan fry cheese curds, but these curds were a great part of our appetizers. Made with fresh cheese curds from Redhead Creamery with bacon from Haffner Family Farm, it was great served with locally sourced salad and a cheese and meat board with cheeses from Redhead Creamery and Fruitful Seasons Dairy.
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Alise Sjostrom is the redhead behind Redhead Creamery cheese. Partnering with her husband, Lucas, and her parents, Jerry and Linda, she makes cheese on the family dairy farm near Brooten, MN. Jerry and Linda milk 200 cows with a portion of the milk produced going direct to the nearby cheese plant where Alise, joined by Linda, makes cheese two to three times a week. Brie, munster, cheese curds and variety of cheddars are produced at the farm. It’s the realization of an idea Alise had when she was just 16.
