Meet Our Farmers
Sawtooth Mountain Maple Syrup, Lutsen, MN
Posted by Brady Barnstable onMinnesota is pretty flat. That is, until you make your way north. Way north. (Does it seem like you're in Canada? Yep, you made it!) Tucked way up there between Superior National Forest and the North Shore of Lake Superior you'll find Lusten, Minnesota, a somewhat mountainous region home to Sawtooth...
Meet Whole Grain Milling, Welcome, Minnesota
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Whole Grain Milling owns and operates an organic farm, mill, and tortilla chip factory near Welcome, Minnesota. Their farm has been certified organic since 1989. Doug, Lin and their sons Jeff and Ross are true organic and local grain pioneers, and have been a role model for our business.
Meet Grassway Farm, Maynard, Iowa
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Grassway is a family run 3rd generation dairy and crop farm. Scott Weidemeijer and his family own and manage the farm on a daily basis. Grassway is growing another 100 acres of transitional organic oats for us this year and we can't wait to go back and visit.
Meet Askegaard Organic Farm, Moorehead, Minnesota
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Located south of Moorhead in the fertile Red River Valley of the North, Askegaard Organic Farm is a 6th generation family farm that grows wheat, soybeans and golden flaxseed. Mark transitioned his farm to organic in 1995 with a strong belief in locally grown food, healthy rural communities, trust, diversity, and sustainability.
Meet A-Frame Farms, Dawson, Minnesota
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Luke and Ali Peterson are an organic farmer and nurse practitioner duo based near Dawson, Minnesota. Luke and his family grow some of the best heritage wheat for our favorite local bakery, Bakersfield Flour, flax, and soon to be buckwheat for Seven Sundays.
Meet Blue Skye Farms, Good Thunder, Minnesota
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Blue Skye Farms is a 3rd Generation Family Farm that grows corn, soybeans, oats, clover, 15 acres of vegetables and pumpkins. This year, Marty is growing 77 acres of transitional organic oats for us.
Meet Penner Farms, St. Peter, Minnesota
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Ben Penner and his family farm roughly 70 acres near St. Peter, Minnesota. Ben grows certified organic alfalfa, hard red winter and spring wheat, food grade soybeans and cover crops. Ben also grows buckwheat for us using organic and regenerative farming practices
Vanilla Bean Project, Lakeland, MN
Posted by Brady Barnstable onThe vanilla trade is an old business with old ways – it needed a good dusting. Andy and Sara Kubiak decided to mix-it-up, offering a better way forward, focused on people and purpose. When they approached Seven Sundays with this concept a few years back, we were all in. Local...