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 […]
Forest Mushrooms, Inc.
Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]
Ridenour Ranch: Two Businesses in One
Located in the heart of Wyoming farm and ranch county, the 1,280 acre Ridenour Ranch, owned by Cindy and Mike Ridenour, offers grass-fed beef, non-certified organic vegetables and “Love-Me-Tender” pork. To set their high-quality products apart, they sell their food products under the banner, Meadow Maid Foods, to reflect the care they take in growing […]
Shary’s Berries
It Takes a Strong Woman Although Shary’s Berries is small by conventional standards, there is more than enough work for Shary Zoff and her 10 year-old son, Sam. Located northeast of Duluth, in northern Minnesota on Homestead Road off of Highway 61, Shary’s Berries covers 40 acres. Roughly 10 of these acres are cleared with […]
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