Earning a Living from the Land, and Water Winchester, Kentucky Amongst the gently rolling hills of Winchester, Kentucky, just 15 miles outside of Lexington, is the 556 acre Avalon Farm, with beef cattle in the pasture, a greenhouse set aside for raising quail, twenty acres devoted to vegetable crops, and about twenty acres planted in […]
Peterson Farm: Linking Farming & Tourism
Corn that Twists and Turns Sever Peterson is a third generation farmer whose large, extended family helps him run a 1000 acre farm in the Minnesota River Valley in Eden Prairie. Vegetable farming has been a way of life for Sever’s family since his grandfather acquired the farm in the 1880s. “Since the turn of […]
Jewel Lane Farm
Diamond in the Rough Situated on the Sunrise River, Jewel Lane Farm is a woodsy, relatively flat acreage with a hilly pasture near the house. There are a 60’ by 24’ lambing barn, a 40’ by 60’ machine shed, and a 16’ by 48’ greenhouse. Soils are sandy with a little peat along the river. […]
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 […]
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