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Rising Moon Farm

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Not Just About Profit In a small valley, leading into the Zumbro River, chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, goats and more than 100 lambs roam the fields. This is the home of Rising Moon Farm, operated by Melissa Peteler and Catherine Friend. For Melissa and Catherine, farming is more than just making a profit. “It is […]

PastureLand Cooperative

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Their Own Brand PastureLand Cooperative in southeast Minnesota is marketing cheese, butter, milk and ice cream made from the milk of grass-fed cows. Together with six Rochester area producers, the co-op aremarketing their own brand of cheese and milk. It wasn’t just low milk prices that prompted members of a Rochester-area cooperative to create their […]

Minnesota Certified Pork

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A Personal Interest Larry Liepold is a pork producer from Okabena, Minnesota, and has served as president of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA). In the summer of 2001, Larry and four other farm families had a deeply personal interest in seeing how pork was selling at Kowalski’s Market in Woodbury, Minnesota. The farmers ventured […]

Jewel Lane Farm

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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. […]