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Can Sow Grow is getting its growing space going again, one little crop at a time. The Micro-Greenhouse is my small-space approach to growing fresh food close to home. It isn't a traditional farm stand with rows of produce waiting every day. What...

The Micro-Greenhouse has something ready! I currently have two living lettuce bowls available for local pickup.    These aren't bags of harvested lettuce. The plants are still alive and growing, so you can keep them growing and harvest what...

Processing the Year's Abundance

The LocalHarvest Blog   -   Sep 22, 2026 - By Jen Woolery

Store, Can, Freeze, Juice, Pickle, & Compost: Make the Most with this Season's Abundance Have you ever received a CSA box but couldn't use all of the contents? Or maybe over-shopped at your local farmers market and realized, "Oh...

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FARM UPDATE 9/9/2026

Larrys Veggies   -   Sep 09, 2026 - By Larrys Veggies

  AUGUST FARM NEWS 9/09/2026  We hope you had a nice relaxing 3 day weekend. First of all we would like to express to you all a great big "THANK YOU!" Your kind expressions of gratitude for what we do makes doing this so much...

2026 Almonds Available It has been a wild ride, but we made it to the first harvest of our third leaf almonds. We are so excited to offer fresh large Shasta almonds for sale. I will have a longer drawn out story on our website, but for now, know that we have...

Farm Direct Minnesota began on May 5, 2020, during a time when grocery store shelves were empty, food supply chains were struggling, and many Minnesota families were searching for another way to purchase meat, eggs, produce, and other everyday foods. At the...

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Something you can come back to. Instead of flowers that last a few days, what if you gave yourself something that lasted all season? A quiet hour in the field. A reset. Arms full of flowers picked yourself. This Mother’s Day, we’re opening up our U-pick...

The USDA just proposed letting slaughterhouses run at whatever speed they want. 175 birds per minute for poultry. No cap for pork. The official reason: remove outdated “bottlenecks." Just think about that . Running a living system at unlimited speed...

THE RAREST BEEF IN THE WORLD REGENERATIVE SOIL RAISED BEEF is now available through BlueTrane Heritage Farm! In partnership with Carter Country Ranch, nestled in the western slope of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, we are offering beef with a 1.2:1 OMEGA 6...