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Farm Happenings at Big River Farms
Meet May Lee of Mhonpaj's Garden
May Lee’s story as an organic farmer begins with the story of her mother. For years, May Lee’s mother worked on a U.S. farm that exposed her daily to harmful chemical pesticides. Eventually, her mother developed cancer linked to pesticide poisoning. As May Lee watched, her mother grew i1 read more »
Shared Risk, Shared Reward
This is Big River Farms' biggest CSA season yet! New this year, we've started using a CSA management program called Harvie. The new software allows us to offer fully custom CSA shares for the very first time. This means you can pick and choose which produce items you receive each week based on your1 read more »
Local Food is Essential
As a Big River Farms CSA member, you know the social, economic, and environmental benefits of choosing local food. From supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) farmers, to accessing fresh nutritious produce, to reducing the distance your food travels, eating local has a huge range of1 read more »
Meet Farmers Choua & Xou
Choua, a teacher with the Hmong Charter School in St. Paul, looks forward to planting season every spring. She and her husband Xou discovered Big River Farms through the Hmong American Partnership (HAP) at a workshop they attended in 2016. Before connecting with us, Choua and Xou started their own1 read more »
Meet Wa Kou of Twin Cities Green Farm
Farming isn’t new to Wa Kou. Before moving to the United States as a refugee in 2004, he was a farmer in his native Thailand. In fact, he comes from a family of farmers — both of his parents and his wife’s family have worked in agriculture. After years of gardening in his own back1 read more »
What's in a Name? Lettuce Tell You!
Did you know Big River Farms (formerly Minnesota Food Association) is now a program of The Food Group?
Farming is at the forefront of what we do. Our goal in transitioning to Big River Farms is to simplify our identity after years of using both the names Minnesota Food Association a1 read more »
CSA deliveries started off with a bang!
Our first week of CSA deliveries started off with a bang....literally! After delivering shares to our first four drop sites on Wednesday morning, our "trusty" refrigerated box truck got a flat tire. While we waited for a mechanic to arrive, the truck's refrigerator remained running to keep your pro1 read more »
CSA Deliveries Start Next Week!
It's hard to believe, but Big River Farms' CSA program kicks off next Wednesday, June 17th with our first delivery of the season. Our farmers and staff have been hard at work prepping your first share. This week, we planted 260 herb containers, a special gift for all of CSA members. You'll find a c1 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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