Leaving the City Behind Tucked away in a rural southern Minnesota town, a husband and wife have been transforming their way of life. Alice and Walter Field discovered Zumbrota, Minnesota in 1975, as they were driving along Highway 52 to visit a daughter in Shakopee. Shortly after, they happily purchased an 80-acre farm near Zumbrota […]
Aspelund Family Farm
Adding Value to the Farm In 1997, Nancy Aspelund of Aspelund Family Farm won a Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (SARE) grant that she and her husband, Dean, called “Diversifying a Small Crop Farm with Hogs and Poultry on Pasture, Apple Trees and Plums.” Before the grant, the Aspelund’s dreamed about how to make their […]
Hickory Nut Gap Farm – Spring House Meats
Fairview, North Carolina In business class their senior year of college, a North Carolina boy and a Kentucky girl crafted a partnership around 200 chickens, 50 turkeys and 360 acres of family farmland in the Appalachian Mountains. Within four years, they were married with a baby on the way, and owned 1,000 chickens, 350 turkeys, […]
Stickney Hill Dairy
An Unusual Twist Brad and Kevin Donnay are two goat-herding brothers who run one of only a handful of goat dairy operations in Minnesota. It started with Brad looking for a way to take over the family farm and make it profitable. Brother Kevin would be graduating from college soon and he, too, wanted to […]
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