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TendHer Fields Farm

TendHer Fields Farm

Lifestyle Choices One of the newest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) ventures in the Twin Cities is the result of a partnership between values and lifestyle choices. Andrea Richardson and Nikki Nau met two years ago through mutual friends. The two women immediately began discussing their interest in sustainable vegetable farming and soon their ideas had […]

Sweet Meadow Farm

Sweet Meadow Farm

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 […]

Sustainable Financing for Rural Minnesota

Sustainable Financing for Rural Minnesota

Put Your Money Where Your Farm Is The national economy has been thriving in recent years. Unfortunately, rural communities have often been left behind as corporate consolidations continue at an accelerating rate and as business activity has drifted to larger centers of commerce. To sustain Minnesota’s rural communities economically, the rural citizenry should be able […]

Stickney Hill Dairy

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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