If Elmwood Stock Farm were a song, and each family member improvised on a different instrument, then the weekends would sound like the chorus. Cecil Bell raises beef and tobacco, his son John raises vegetables, his son-in-law Mac Stone works off the farm and raises organic livestock with Cecil’s daughter Ann, who additionally markets the […]
MOM’s
An Enterprising Family Minnesota Organic Milk (MOM’s) is a successful family-run organic dairy that sells their dairy products to numerous Twin Cities food co-operatives and grocery stores. The Hartman’s –Mike, Diane and Mike’s brother, Roger, are the family behind this successful enterprise. “When we were planning this, we had 52 farms lined up to go,” […]
King Farm
Cultivating A Meaningful Life Vegetable producers Jan and Tim King harvest two acres of organic vegetables and fruit on their 36-acre farm in Todd County, Minnesota. Both natives to Long Prairie, Minnesota, they began gardening together in 1970, and, after spending a decade in the Twin Cities, moved back to Todd County to live what […]
Easy Bean Farm
Environmentally Positive Farming Easy Bean Farm is a 120 acre spread in the Chippewa River Valley near Montevideo. In addition to the 46 acres of grass pasture for rotational grazing of beef cattle, there are 12 acres of mixed and certified organic vegetables. Easy Bean markets most of its vegetable to 109 community supported agriculture […]