West Central Minnesota
Farmer to Consumer Directory

This directory lists rural producers from West Central Minnesota who take great care and pride in maintaining the quality of their products. Farmers listed are implementing sustainable or organic farming practices.

Sustainable farming practices include a land and animal stewardship ethic, limited use of chemicals or drugs, and community-minded direction.

This directory is an evolving project of Land Stewardship Project (LSP). We invite you to contact the LSP office with ideas and suggestions, or questions on availability of other farm products. If you know of other farms that raise sustainable products and would like to sell directly to consumers, please contact us:

Land Stewardship Project
103 West Nichols Avenue
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-2105
Fax 320-269-2190
Email: lspwest@landstewardshipproject.org

LSP founded in 1982, is a private, non-profit membership organization devoted to fostering an ethic of stewardship toward farmland. It is working to develop and promote sustainable communities and a system of agriculture that is environmentally sound, economically viable, family-farm based, and socially just.

This directory is cultivated with generous contributions from the 15th Annual Chippewa County CROP Walk. Sharing in a hope-filled tomorrow, the TOOLS OF HOPE theme stresses that the smallest, simplest things can make a major difference in daily life and in our communities' future. We hope that tools like this directory, shared with eager hands and minds, will help create local food connections.

The Sustainable Farming Association of Western Minnesota is a grassroots, farmer to farmer network rooted in the recognition of the wisdom within ourselves and our communities to find ways of farming that are economically viable and ecologically sound.

Remember that local products are also available at retail food stores. When shopping at your favorite grocery store, be sure to ask for locally and sustainably grown products.

Lines Creek Farm
Paul Lines, Anita Zelenka, Nik Lines, Dylan Lines
1050 100th Ave NW
Watson, MN 56295
Tel. 320-269-8093

Naturally raised: goat meat, goat milk, pumpkins, chickens, ducks & eggs. All livestock is humanely raised on pasture (free range, no cages). No chemicals or hormones used on plants or animals. Our animals are "happy". Contact by phone or stop by.

Morning Has Broken Farm
Carolyn, Larry, Cory & Matthew Olson
Rt 1 Box 136
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Tel. 320-564-2571
Website: www.prairiefare.com

Pasture raised chicken frozen half/whole. USDA inspected. Pork-half or whole, Beef-quarter/half/whole. Available by order year round. Please call to order and to better serve your needs. We are willing to deliver minimum orders of $25.00 or more. Pick up at farm or "Java River" by appointment.

All Natural Fiber Farm
Loyd Canatsey and Jill Klatt
4065 10th Ave SE
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-6780
Email: jillklatt@hotmail.com

Animals for sale-exotic colored sheep and lambs, angora goats and anora rabbits. Fiber for sale- greased and processed. All fibers good for spinning, weaving, felting and crafts.

Support your neighbors: Buying locally produced food helps keep money circulating within your community, where it can return to you and other local businesses. Buying locally can help sustain small family farms.

Pastures A' Plenty
Jim & LeeAnn VanDerPol
Josh & Cindy VanDerPol
4075 110th Ave NE
4077 110th Ave NE
Kerkhoven, MN 56252
Tel. 320-367-2061
320-847-3227
Email: vanderpol@prairiefare.com
Website: www.prairiefare.com

Pork available year round. Lamb available fall & winter. Chicken available summer & fall. Brown eggs occasionally.

Moonstone Organics
Richard Handeen & Audrey Arner
9060 40th St SW
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-8971
Email: aarner@maxminn.com
Website: www.prairiefare.com

We have individual beef cuts or quarters available year round. Our beef is hormone and antibiotic free and raised on certified organic pastures. Also on hand: organic specialty popcorns, grains, food grade soybeans. On farm lodging available in "The Broodio."

Doug's Trimming & Gardens
Doug, Marie & Brook Pederson
7025 Hwy 7 SW
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-9182
Email: pederson@maxminn.com

Variety of vegetables, raspberries, shrubs, and trees. Will be open mainly on a self serve basis everday. Fridays 11-6 will be our only open day. Other times by chance or appointment. contact by phone for appointment anytime.

Earth Rise
Kay & Annette Fernholz SSND
RR1 Box 498
Louisburg, MN 56256
Tel. 320-568-2191

We are primarily a CSA garden. Contracts for a weekly basket of produce are submitted in spring serving from May into October. Remaining produce is available for purchase at the farm by contacting us in advance at our address. Produce is also sold at Farmers' Markets in Appleton and Madison, MN.

Sonja's Farm Fresh Vegetables
George & Sonja Siemieniewski
81571-160th St.
Sacred Heart, MN 56285
Tel. 320-765-2549

Fresh garden vegetables. Roadside vegetable stand, west frontage Rd.(Watson Rd.) Montevideo, June-November, Hrs. 1-5. Farmers market, Granite Falls, Wed. 12-5, Willmar National Guard Amory Sat. Mornings 8-12. July-November.

"A sustainable future depends upon our commitment to creating an agricultural system that nurtures and beautifies the land, while providing health, abundant food and a good living for farm familes." – Rev. Larry Olson, Farmer & Former LSP Board Member

PM Ranch
R.F. Padula
Rt 5 Box 69
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-7973
Fax: 320-any-lamb

Lamb (Fall & Winter), wool (March), sheep pelts, and sheep manure. Current regulations require purchase of live animal. Custom processing of animal can be arranged. Orders for lamb taken year-round.

Stranlund Farm
Pauline Stranlund
170 40th St SW
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-841-1234
Email: Pauline_Stranlund@slmti.com Please leave a message

Raspberries, vegetables, chickens. Hours-Sat. mornings-8 a.m.-1 p.m. Montevideo Farmers Market, Runnings parking lot.

Wick's Strawberries and Vegetables
Clifford & Barbara Wick
4055 30th St. SW
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-8917

You pick/we pick strawberries. June, July, maybe Aug.-Sept. for everbearings. Call for picking times or to order. In season vegetables. Drive up, home most of time during summer.

Ron's Vegies and Cacti
Ron Hanson
86750 150th St.
Sacred Heart, MN 56285
Tel. 320-765-2379

Pesticide free vegetables, summer and autumn, cactus plants- one inch to eight feet, leave phone message or contact Montevideo Farmers Market, Sat. a.m., at Runnings parking lot. Some deliveries possible.

Know what's in your food: How much do you know about the food you eat? We have become increasingly distanced from the production of our food, and have given up knowledge about what we are eating, in exhange for convenience and low prices. Buying local food gives you the opportunity to meet the people who grow your food, learn how it was grown, and know what kind of effects its production has on your health and the environment.

Bonne Terre Organic
Janet & William Rois
145 50th Ave SE
Benson, MN 56215
Tel.Fax 320-843-4757

Organic bird seed, alfalfa hay (large round), organic wheat, organic rye, organic buckwheat, organic speltz. Processing available. Call our home.

Murphy's Farm
Craig, Joanie & Erin Murphy
Rt 3 Box 111
Morris, MN 56267
Tel. 320-392-5176
Email: cjemurph@info-link.net
Website: www.prairiefare.com

Beef, Pork, call for availability. Certified organic bulk grains.

Noordmans Farm
Dale & Betty Noordmans, Melissa, Amy, Jason, & Jennifer
39041 County RD 2
Hancock, MN 56244
Tel. 320-392-5925

Wheat, corn, oats, barley, alfalfa, beans (soy), 100% organic Bread mixes for bread bakers. Available anytime of day or evening. Contact Dale or Betty at phone number listed.

Lauritsen Farm
Dave and Juanita Lauritsen
3085 120th Ave NW
Milan, Mn 56262
Tel. 320-734-4783

Fall Butcher hogs. Contact by phone.

Red Tail Valley Beef
Terry VanDerPol,
Paul & Ginger Homme,
Larry & Carolyn Olson,
Don Maronde,
Dean & Jeri Nordaune
235 7th Ave
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Tel. 320-564-1877
Email: tlvdp@aol.com

Phone, mail, e-mail. Beef for sale. No hormones or antibiotics. By the quarter, half, whole, or by individual cuts.

Soehren Farm
Dave & Dianna Soehren
Rt 3 Box 37
Appleton, MN 56208
Tel. 320-752-4421

Hormone/antibotic free pork & beef. Sold quarter, half, or whole and delivered to butcher of your choice.

Fresh food is better: Few would dispute the fact that fresher food is better for you. Though the advertising on highly processed foods may try to convince you that it's fresh, or "fresh-like", buying food from your own part of the world during the growing season is as fresh as it can get.

Mark & Stephs Organic Greenhouse & Organic Produce
Mark & Stephanie DeJaeghere
1540-220th St.
Russell, MN 56169
Tel. 507-823-4632
Email: stephanie@starpoint.net

Open first weekend in May through the end of October. We sell annual flower and vegetable plants, perennials, ornamental shrubs, produce, cut flowers, and fresh herbs.

Prairie Wind Farms
Gerard & Mary Radermacher
Ed & Cathy Radermacher
RR1 Box 101
Bellingham, MN 56212
Tel. 320-568-2310
320-568-2110

Beef, lamb, ducks, chickens. Certified Organic. No antibiotics or hormones. Order by phone 320-568-2310.

Prairie Lane Farm
Kent & Jane Goplen, Grant, Hattie, Hayden
RR3 Box 81
Canby MN 56220
Tel. 507-223-7910

Call anytime. Pork for sale. Humanely raised. Will deliver to local locker for processing. Outdoor hogs raised naturally. Also drug free, chemical free, hormone free. Beef from our own herd raised on BDL grain & forages. Call if you want a half or quarter and we can figure out a plan!

Riverdale Farm
Mike & Jen Berven, Keith, Bekka, Haak
9030 40th St. NW
Milan, MN 56262
Tel. 320-269-8749
Email: riverdale@maxminn.com
Website: www.maxminn.com/riverdale

Farm visits are welcome, call for appointment. Organically grown crops, feed grains, alfalfa/grass hay, outdoor raised chickens and eggs, fleece for hand spinning, naturally raised feeder cattle, honey, lamb, decorative corn, popcorn, pumpkins. Third generation, river friendly family farm.

Reduce transportation: Most of the food on our tables travels thousands of miles to reach us. This requires dependence on an energy-intensive distribution system, which brings us foods we could be producing in our own region.

Easy Bean Farm
Mike Jacobs
5075 100th Ave NW
Milan, MN 56262
Tel. 320-793-6675
Email: easybean@info-link.net
Website: www.prairiefare.com

A wide range of organic produce available at Farmer's Markets, restaurants, grocery stores and through our community supported agriculture program.

The Lamb Shoppe
Connie Karstens
61231 MN Hwy 7
Tel. 320-587-6094
Email: lambshop@hutchtel.net
Fax 320-587-6094

Grass fed lamb, Jersey beef, turkeys, chickens (whole), brown eggs, Minnesota Organic Milk (MOM's) and MOM'S ice cream. All products available year round at farm retail store- call for store hours.

Swenson Orchards
Dave and Avis Swenson
145 60th Ave SW
Montevideo, MN 56265
Tel. 320-269-7838

Apples, plums, raspberries, onions, jams and jellies. Season: approximately second half of Aug. thru Christmas. Store hours 5-8 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9-7 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. Apple trailor-daylight hrs. otherwise by appointment. Contact by phone message.

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