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May 17th, 2025 - Latest News
Spring is here, and with it comes another growing season on the farm. I apologize for the lack of news updates since December. Not only were we busy getting ready for spring, but we were also getting ready to welcome another family member into the world! My wife and I had a new baby boy at the end of April, and we couldn’t be happier! Mom and baby are doing great, but naturally I had to race out into the fields and plant everything right after we got back home from the hospital. Timing is everything, as they say.
So as you can imagine the whole winter was busy with house remodeling and shuffling bedrooms around to get ready to expand our family. Somehow I managed to squeeze in maple syrup season in March. In fact, it was my biggest year yet, yielding over 20 gallons of finished syrup. I’m still wrapping up a little bit of filtering and bottling, but most of it is ready for sale.
We had to temporarily suspend corn sales in mid April. Not only did our bagged inventory run out, but we needed to run the corn sheller and refill the bin as well. (When we ran out, we ran out COMPLETELY!) With the baby on the way and planting around the corner, it just got to be too much to do, so we shut down sales for a while to get caught up with everything else. As soon as all the planting was done, Dad and I set up the sheller, emptied the cribs, and refilled the bin. So we’re totally replenished on shelled corn for the summer and should be able to keep our inventory of bagged products stocked up.
The corn in the fields has already sprouted, and it’s looking great so far. We planted all non GMO corn this year after some great customer feedback during the winter. It’s a new adventure, but not really all that different from growing the GMO stuff we’ve been used to. Dad remembers well the days before GMO corn existed, so we have a good crop management plan in place.
Our bagged oats have been sold out for a few months already, but I planted a six acre field of oats this April. It’s been up and growing for awhile already, so that means we should have oats available again at the end of July or early August.
So on that note, here’s what we have available at the farm!
Maple Syrup is restocked after a bumper spring! Our pints are now in fancy syrup bottles! Quarts are still in traditional canning jars. Plenty of both available!
We have wildlife corn! bags of ear corn are sold out, but shelled whole kernel corn and cracked corn will now be available YEAR ROUND. We are sold out of Non-GMO corn (due to our fantastic customers!), but will continue to offer bags of regular GMO corn until harvest 2025 or until we sell out.
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We are sold out of alfalfa hay for the next few weeks, but we do have a little bit of meadow grass available, and about 140 bales of really nice oat straw.
Regenerative - Sustainable - Family
Our farm doesn’t fit into a neat little package. It’s complicated and diverse in its offerings, and becoming more so each year. It’s a difficult place to sum up quickly, but I think these three words come pretty close to nailing our core values when it comes to our life and livelihood here. We’re a fourth generation family farm located south of Jordan, Minnesota, and we’re proud to be practicing regenerative agriculture on all 100 acres of our land. We encourage you to check out our products for sale, and explore the rest of our website to learn about who we are and what we do. We also post regularly to Instagram and Facebook, and feature some of our day to day operations on YouTube. Links below, and in the upper right of the top menu!
A Quick Look at Our Products
Wildlife FEED
From November until late April we offer 50 lb bags of shelled corn for sale direct to customers, as well as full bags of ear corn that weigh about 35 lbs. Folks purchase our
bagged corn and feed it to all kinds of wild animals – deer, squirrels, turkeys, pheasants – and also as a supplemental feed for flocks of chickens, or as a treat for goats or other small ruminants during the winter.
We harvest our corn on the ear, then shell it with a Minneapolis-Moline corn sheller. To make sure it’s extra clean, we run it through a fanning mill. The end result is a very clean product that won’t plug up automatic feeders, or make you feel like you’re paying good money for dust and dirt and bits of corn cob.
New this year, we will also be offering cleaned and bagged oats. In fact, they’re ready right now!
See our Products page for more information, pricing and availablility.
Hay & Straw – Small Squares
From late June until we run out (usually sometime in late winter) we offer small square bales of alfalfa hay, alfalfa/grass mix, and also some mixed meadow grass hay. For 2021 we also have wheat straw and oat straw available. We take great care to bale our hay dry and tight and keep it stored under cover to ensure a high quality product that your animals will love.
That said, nature doesn’t always cooperate, and when do bale a crop of hay that is sub-standard, we make sure to communicate that to the customer and adjust our price accordingly. If a hay crop is completely ruined and deemed unacceptable, we find other uses for it that don’t involve animal consumption.
See our Products page for more information, pricing and availability
Broiler Chickens
This year we began raising Cornish Rock broilers in mobile pasture pens. A farm just isn’t complete without animals – from the daily rhythm of feeding and watering and moving, to the unique personality and entertainment they bring, to the benefits we glean from their manure as a compost starting material.
More importantly, we wanted to raise good food for people, and do it in an ethical, ecologically beneficial way. These chickens are healthy, substantial, and quite frankly delicious.
We’re currently sold out for 2021, but will be raising several batches in 2022. Contact us to get on our mailing list so you’ll know when they’re available, or check back here for updates.
Produce
Gardening and learning to fulfill some of our own food needs is what led my wife and I to want to take over the family farm. As our gardening habit has grown each year, it’s now approaching the point of a full blown obsession.
It seems only natural that we would offer some of our surplus to the local community. This fall we’ll start with some resilient crops that keep well – pie pumpkins, butternut squash, and storage onions are all foods that I love to grow, and which allow us some time to get them to you without risk of spoilage. Stay tuned on that front.
Next spring we will be offering maple syrup direct from the farm. I’ve been producing it for several years for ourselves, and it’s one of my favorite things in the world. I think it’s time to share it with all of you.
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