Credit: Explore Minnesota Keep your pumpkins in tip-top condition all autumn long with these easy tricks! Choosing your pumpkin: Buy locally! This ensures that your pumpkin was picked recently and will hold up longer. While at the pumpkin patch, … [Read more...] about Pumpkin Care
Cicadas hum in the walnut and cottonwood trees of the farm. Seeking shelter from the noonday sun, a Black Angus bull bellows, making himself known. Red and black piglets avoid the steamy Minnesota summer day by dashing between the cool barnyard and … [Read more...] about Meet a Farmer: Cazzi and Evelyn of Wacholz Farm
It's National Pork Month! Warm up with this savory recipe shared by Minnesota Pork Board. Ingredients: 5 lbs. pork shoulder (Boston Butt) 1 cup brown sugar ¼ cup kosher salt 2 Tbsp. chili powder 2 Tbsp. paprika 1 Tbsp. onion powder 1 Tbsp. … [Read more...] about Recipe: Pulled Pork Tater Tot Hotdish
There are so many delicious Minnesota apple varieties to pick from, many of them designed to grow to their best quality and flavor in our unique climate! Sweet or tart? For eating or pie? What's in season this month? Pick the perfect Minnesota apple … [Read more...] about Pick Your Perfect Apple Chart
Embrace the flavors of flavors of fall with pork chops and apples! *Tried and true recipe recommended by Pleasant Valley Orchard and sourced from the “Apple Lover’s Cookbook” by Shirley Munson and Jo Nelson.* Ingredients: 2 Tbsp. Butter 6 pork … [Read more...] about Recipe: Pork Chops and Apples
Having a daughter who struggled with health problems as a young child, Carla Mertz and her husband wanted to find a way to give their little girl healthy and local food. Carla, an interior designer, and her husband, an engineer who grew up going to … [Read more...] about Meet a Farmer: Carla of Iron Shoe Farm
