2025 Season Highlights
2025 was another year to remember with lots of big moments for our small farm. I thought it’d be fun go through our farms top 10 moments from 2025. Enjoy!
Welcoming Baby Aubrey! Our little farm family gained an extra set of farm hands this season with Aubrey arriving in January. Aubrey is the perfect addition to our family and her big sister, Addie, adores her!
Hiring our first Farm Manager. Katie, who many of you got to know this season, was hired as our first farm manager here on the farm. Katie did a fantastic job for us - she was fun to be around, had a great work ethic, was a natural at all things farming, and all around just a good person. I wish I could tell you Katie will be back next season but it sounds like Katie will be pursuing a farming venture of her own. We’re very excited for her!
MPR News Article! I’m a big MPR News fan and I’ve always loved the stories they tell about Minnesotans across the state so I was beyond excited when they reached out to do an article about our farm! This was a bucket list item for me and I loved the story they did. Sadly, I’m not able to find the article on their website so you’ll just have to take my word for it!
Home Delivery. Home delivery has proven to be a huge hit. The amount of gratitude folks have expressed for offering home delivery as a service has been huge and so rewarding. We know how chaotic life is, especially with children, so having your veggies show up on your door is a huge convenience for so many people!
Spring Tunnel Crops. Our high tunnels pumped out so many amazing crops this season. After loosing multiple beds of carrots in our high tunnels last season it felt really good to harvest and sell everything we grew in our high tunnels this spring.
Shallots. This year was our first year growing shallots and we were quite happy with the results. They were pretty easy to grow, extremely flavorful and held up in storage well. A little goes a long way with shallots. We’re planning to grow them again next season and are hoping for a little larger bulb size. We’ll see!
Carrots. We had an amazing year for carrots this season and brought in a record harvest. That felt really good since last season we had an abysmal year for carrots on account of the flooding.
Waterway Mix. It was another wet year so the time, money and energy we put into planting the waterway mix in our lowest areas really felt validating. One of the things I love about farming on a small acreage is you really get to intimately know the land and it’s patterns. We’re glad to have the waterway mix in place to protect our soil and our farm.
Lettuce. I’m really proud of the lettuce we grew this season. We had an ample supply every week throughout the entire season which felt really good.
Washington D.C. In September of this year I went to Washington D.C. to meet with Minnesota’s congressional delegation to lobby for farm policy that makes more sense. For me, it was advocating for the Local Foods Purchasing Assistant(LFPA) program that the Trump administration canceled early in the year. LFPA proved to be a vital program for not only farmers but main street businesses and folks experiencing food insecurity.