Honey is equal parts mysterious and delicious. This Southern Honey-Pecan Pie recipe puts honey on the center stage, using a full cup in the recipe. We often don’t think of honeybees as being part of agriculture, but when you stop for moment, their connections are obvious. Not only do honeybees serve as pollinators for other…
CommonGround, a group of women farmers dedicated to having one-on-one conversations with consumers about the food they grow, celebrates an impressive milestone this month: 10 years of service and impact. With so many food choices available, the women farmers of CommonGround serve as a resource connecting with families about food and farming topics. The organization’s…
Set your tables and call the family inside because we’re over the moon with this #CGMNvolunteer favorite. Try Rachel from Little Timber Farms, LLC‘s steak with berry sauce + blue cheese. Rachel’s farm is located all the way up in Blackduck, MN, where she raises replacement heifers. Rachel is very knowledgeable about all things beef cattle, so we…
Kristie Swenson and her husband farm in southwestern Minnesota. They’re proud to continue the family farm started by Kristie’s grandpa. An ordinary 6th-grade sleepover turned into a defining moment in my life. I grew up in southwestern Minnesota on a crop and livestock farm about 13 miles from the nearest town. On one particular morning,…
Lauren Biegler and husband, Bryan, farm corn and soybeans and raise their family in Lake Wilson, Minnesota. They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, so I think the photo you see below explains why I plant cover crops better than I can articulate in words. At first glance, this may seem nothing more than…
Carolyn Olson is an organic corn, soybean and wheat farmer and mom from Cottonwood, Minnesota. My husband, Jonathan, and I began transitioning our farm into an organic farm operation in 1998 and became 100 percent certified in 2011. Now we grow organic corn, soybeans and small grains on about 1,100 acres of land in Cottonwood,…
Wanda Patsche and her husband are pig and crop farmers in southern Minnesota. As a consumer, mom and pig farmer, I understand that meat labels can be confusing. I’ve heard fellow moms, even food bloggers, say they chose not to buy meat simply because they didn’t know what the labels meant. Hearing that, I felt…
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