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Farm Happenings at Big River Farms
Local Food is (Still) Essential
As a Big River Farms CSA member, you know the social, economic, and environmental benefits of choosing local food. From directly supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) farmers, to accessing fresh nutritious produce, to reducing the distance your food travels, eating local has a huge1 read more »
Our CSA Volunteers Rock!
Did you know we have a dedicated team of seven volunteers that help pack your weekly CSA shares? They're an integral part of what makes our CSA so successful, ensuring members like you receive fresh, beautiful veggie shares throughout our 18-week season. Every Wednesday morning, this committed crew1 read more »
Meet & Greet with BRF Farmers
Join us in Stillwater on Thursday, July 22nd from 6-8pm at a free outdoor market!
During this "Community Resilience, Community Foods" event, you'll have an opportunity to meet some of the farmers who grow food for your weekly CSA shares. Come learn from them about the importance of seed saving1 read more »
Meet Farmers Lue & Kia
Farmers Lue Lor & Kia Chang grow many of the fresh, organic veggies you'll find in your weekly CSA shares. A few years ago, Lue was introduced to the Big River Farms (BRF) education program through friends. Lue and Kia started farming here as "The Early Birds" on a quarter-acre, but q1 read more »
Meet Farmer May Lee
May Lee has been at Big River Farms (BRF) for 16 seasons as a farmer and an employee. She currently serves as our Farm Operations Specialist and has also been a farming mentor and educator.
May’s story as an organic farmer begins with the story of her mother. For years, her mother worked on a1 read more »
Celebrate Pride
Happy Pride Month! This month, and all year long, we celebrate the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities within Minnesota's LGBTQ+ farming family, including nonbinary and genderqueer farmers. We also recognize the high rates of racism, sexism, and other forms of identity-based oppr1 read more »
Your Support Matters
Our CSA program is one of many services and offerings here at Big River Farms. Farmers in our education program can opt into growing and selling their organic produce directly to you through our cooperative CSA model. In addition to the BRF CSA, farmers here develop and operate other independent ma1 read more »
CSA Starts Soon!
Hello Big River Farms (BRF) CSA Member!
Our 2021 CSA season starts with your first veggie share deliveries on Wednesday, June 16th. Thank you for choosing BRF as your trusted CSA partner. All of the food distributed through our program is 100% certified organic and non-GMO. We have 13 teams in our1 read more »
Thanks for a Great CSA Season!
And just like that, we've come to the end of another great season! Thank you for joining us as a CSA member this year. Your support makes a huge difference and provides a direct market for our farmers to sell their certified organic produce.
Your CSA membership also supports our mission of fighting1 read more »
About the farm
Big River Farms, formerly Minnesota Food Association, offers land access and education in organic agriculture for immigrants, refugees, people of color, and others who have historically faced discrimination in accessing farmland, markets, education and other farming support. We provide beginning farmers mentorship and guidance in managing their own 1/8 to 6-acre plots of certified organic land at Big River Farms, our 150-acre incubator farm near Marine on St. Croix, MN. Farmers have a guaranteed market for their produce via the Big River Farms Food Hub, which consists of wholesale contracts, a 200+ member CSA, and farmers markets.
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