..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 vegetables
Rotisserie Chicken was the entree at our latest Locally Grown Meal. The chicken was put over wood and coal in our Chef Leon’s Kamado Joe grill. Slow roasted with simple seasonings. Added to the meal are locally grown vegetables plus apple pie and a gluten free apple crisp. The meal featured all locally sourced items!
The conversation flowed as we sipped local wines, enjoyed local meats and cheeses for appetizers, relished the entrees of roasted vegetables and grilled spareribs and savored desserts of peach pie and rhubarb torte. There’s nothing like a Locally Grown Meal shared with friends.
OUCH! A fall resulted in sprained fingers, an arthritis flare and bruised lip! The result was time away from the computer (I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t keyboard with the bum finger), but it couldn’t stop my sister and I from our weekly farmers market haul!
Fresh fruits and vegetables are okay during the COVID-19 pandemic - just remember to wash!
Russell Kleinschmidt of Kleinschmidt Farms has vegetables ready for sale at the Staples Area Farmers Market.