Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]
Bayfront Harvest Festival
Lasting Links In 1990 a group of farmers, social justice activists and local church members got together at the first Local Changes for Global Solutions Conference. The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for discussion of environmental, peace, and justice issues while initiating lasting links between urban and rural communities. Out of […]
Axdahl’s Garden Farm
A Roadside Tradition Brian and Leslie Axdahl are famous for their sweet corn. Starting every year in mid to late July, folks from miles around make a sort of pilgrimage to Axdahl’s roadside vegetable stand on the outskirts of Stillwater, Minnesota for some of the sweetest, most tender “bi-color” corn they’ve ever tasted. Still warm […]