Farm Practices

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,…

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,…