B&E’s Trees was founded in 2011, when Bree and Eric of B&E’s fell head over heels for a small corner of land in Southwest Wisconsin. Since then they have grown in partnership with Central Waters Brewing Company, and are now aging their delectable syrup in bourbon barrels.
Big River Magazine is a bimonthly publication that features news and stories about the Upper Mississippi River and the Driftless Area. Subjects include travel tips, wildlife, environmental issues, restaurant and book reviews, and a variety of river news
Located in beautiful southeastern Minnesota, Blue Fruit Farm covers 5 acres of certified organic aronia berries, black currants, blueberries, cherry plums, elderberries, honeyberries, juneberries, and plums. Their farm overlooks a stunning microclimate known as Wiscoy Valley, surrounded by forest and native prairie.
Today, Buffalo Gal, located on the Money Creek Buffalo Ranch, is a thriving business and a way of life. Although this is not the largest herd in the country, it is one of the finest quality herds you will find in America today.
Farmstead goat cheese by Katie Wiste, made in small batches with milk from her own pastured goats. From grass, to goat, to cheese!
Authentic, artisan sourdough bread, baked fresh just across the river in Fountain City, WI.
Previously known as Carlson Roasting Company – Loons Nest Coffee is passionate about quality, hand-crafted coffee. They buy Fair Trade and Organic coffees from around the world and roast them in small batches with attention to detail that brings out the potential of each batch.
Cowsmo, Inc. provides top quality organic compost to over 30 retailers in the Driftless region.
Richard Flax has spent most of his life in the restaurant business. After years of friends asking for more of his signature BBQ sauces, he decided to bottle it up and sell it in stores. Many awards and ribbons later, Down Under BBQ sauce is sold in grocery stores and markets throughout the Midwest.
Driftless Organics manages over 100 acres of ridge and valley fields in the enchanting Driftless region of Southwest Wisconsin. Beyond their legendary potatoes, they produce fruit, vegetables and sunflower oil that they share via farmers markets and grocery stores throughout the upper Midwest.
Ecker’s orchard market is open daily each fall, brimming with specialty foods, their gourmet caramel, and their scratch apple pies.
Fairview Farm
Fairview Farm has been in the Timm family for five generations. The farm uses earth-friendly farming practices to produce its vegetables and fruits and strives to provide its customers with the best quality products and service.
Featherstone Farm of Rushford, MN has grown and delivered certified organic fruits and vegetables since 1994. The farm produces around 70 varieties of fresh market fruits and vegetables for distribution to natural food stores, wholesalers and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members throughout the region.
Dale and Fern Peterson first started growing turkeys on their Cannon Falls farm 75 years ago. Three generations later, Ferndale Market still raises its turkeys without the use of antibiotics or artificial growth promotants.
The Greensted
As an urban farm-to-table grower, The Greensted encompasses the best in fresh, garden-sweet product, grown clean and promoting the best practices in “green” living. Click here to see their appearance in a Fox 9 news segment.
Harmony Valley Farm reaps the benefits of over 40 years farming experience from Richard de Wilde, who has been growing organic vegetables since 1973. Richard goes above and beyond organics, placing great value on soil fertility and on an integrated, healthy, natural growing environment.
Hidden Stream Farm is located near Elgin, MN not far from the bluffs of the Mississippi River and Rochester, MN. They raise their animals using a grass-based and deep bedded system. This allows them to farm in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
Makers of delicious foods and beverages. Handed down through generations, their Pickle and Switchel recipes appeal to serious foodies who know and understand the value of maintaining health in a natural and holistic way.
Just like other culinary traditions have adapted their food traditions to complement the American food fabric, Infuzn represents a fusion of Indian and other food traditions. Their motto: “Indian Inspired Foods with a Global Twist.”
Josi Severson is a textile designer with a line of Year Round Resort Wear, clothing made for vacation or to feel like you’re on one. Made with 100% organic cotton- original designs, printed in the USA
The Jam Shoppe is passionate and committed to bring the very best of nature to you, so all their jams and butters are handcrafted and made in small batches with a commitment to quality.
Since 1992, Larry Schultz Organic Farm has raised all-natural, free range, and hormone and antibiotic free poultry in order to provide people with fresh, organic eggs and meat. The family farm is a 3rd and 4th generation farm and has never been farmed conventionally with herbicides, insecticides, or artificial fertilizers.
Mandala Tea wants to share the joy and good health that high quality tea has brought to their lives. Tea can be fun, meditative, healthy and a real pleasure to share with friends and family. It’s not that they are obsessed with tea, it’s just that they can hardly think of anything else!
Maple Hill Farm is focused on providing quality product from animals that have lived a quality life. Dairy sheep are the main animals on their Wisconsin farm. They milk dairy sheep twice a day and some of that valuable milk is put into handmade sheep milk soap and lotion. All products are made in small batches and use quality ingredients, with no artificial fragrances or dyes.
Mose’s Fish Shop Inc, located in Winona, Minnesota, produces a delicious, unique, top quality gourmet tartar sauce.
Mugby Junction was founded in 2003 in Winona, Minnesota, and is a family-owned business. They currently have two locations, one a café and the other a drive-through only. They also work in partnership with both local universities to provide their coffee on campus.
Nature’s Excellence Inc. has formulated and manufactured high-quality products, including organic, for over 20 years. They are a versatile business that is committed to the research and development of new products. Their mission is a thoughtful balance of substance and style, nature and science, people and spirit.
Norsland Lefse has been producing traditional lefse for nearly a quarter century, and is your one-stop resource for other fine Scandinavian treats.
Kelley O’Neill and Cindy Wolf established their farm in 1994 in Rushford, MN. They raise sheep and cattle on the hilly pastures of the farm. Their motto is to use sun, water, milk and grass efficiently to grow good food.
With an aim to leave the smallest environmental footprint possible, Jonathan Stensgard and Jordan Flynn grow a wide variety of certified organic vegetables and herbs.
Nearly 50 years after their parents purchased the farm, Eric and Maria Kreidermacher, along with their children and grandchildren, continue to enjoy a thriving greenhouse business and organic hog farm that has received national recognition for sustainability practices.
Sisters Harmony and Sally have been operating Renaissance Bread since 2008. They take a traditional, hands-on approach to their baking and use high quality ingredients, including local when available.
Roger Dahlin Wild Rice
Roger only uses traditional harvesting methods that have been used by the Ojibwa for centuries; one person steers from the back of the canoe, while the other sits in front bending the aquatic grass over the boat, gathering the ripe kernels in the hull. He prizes the infinite variability of a truly “wild” rice, uncultivated, cross-germinated in the lakes of northern Minnesota.
Hand scale farming practices allow Sacred Blossom Farm to sustainably grow and deliver spectacular quality and freshness. No herbicides or pesticides. No flavor additives. They grow sacred herbs, flowers and fruits for your teacup. They farm for their health, your health and the health of the planet.
Pam & Jim Powell have been hand-crafting unique salad dressings in Minneapolis since 2007. Salad Girl has 11 unique varieties crafted with the finest, freshest organic ingredients, without preservatives. Today Salad Girl Organic Dressings are on the refrigerated produce shelves of over 400 Midwest stores.
As a nonprofit, Seed Savers Exchange aims to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.
Simple Soaps For Simple Folks mission is to create a quality bar of handcrafted goat milk soap for YOU, the customer, to use, gift and above all, ENJOY! They do this by using certified organic base oils, avoiding synthetic color/pigments, utilizing their fresh goat’s milk, and producing small, artisan batches of soap to preserve quality and craftsmanship.
Simply Bee Natural takes a holistic approach to addressing health concerns. They offer a variety of herbal remedies and essences that treat you, not just your condition. They believe that you are not living your best life possible, until your mind, body, and spirit are in unison with each other.
Before eating healthy became popular, people bought Sno Pac vegetables because they tasted great. People still come directly to SnoPac’s plant to pick up their annual supply of vegetables. Many of these are third or fourth generation Sno Pac customers. Today, SnoPac continues to bring their organic vegetables to your family in the same tradition.
Near Rushford, MN is the largest spring fed farm in southeastern Minnesota. This idyllic land is where Heidi Lee, a fourth-generation farmer, runs her apiary and provides the surrounding area with delectable Spring Bee Honey. Lee’s bees gather pollen from the nearby spring-bed as well as the surrounding fields; watercress, sunflower, clover, and hay all make their way into Spring Bee Honey.
Dodie and Peggy, two sisters and lifelong friends bought the St Paul Bagelry to put down roots and bring their welcoming spirits to a great community space. They perfected the bagel ingredients–all natural and no preservatives–and they are producing the best New York style bagels in the Twin Cities.
Sunleaf Naturals’s mission is pure and simple: to create healthful bath, body and home products that perform well, smell amazing, and allow real plant power to shine through! To do this, they carefully select each plant ingredient for its unique benefits & source within sustainable supply chains.
Swallow Hill Farm bills themselves as a “multi-generational homesteading experiment.” They raise small-scale livestock, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and notably at BCC, quail eggs!
Located between Rushford and Houston in the scenic Driftless, Sweet 16 Farm supplies delicious produce and beautiful flowers to local grocers and farmers markets.
Katherine Waymire, President of Talisman Designs, started the company in 2002 making handmade wine accessories in her home. Fast forward to now and Talisman Designs is a known brand in the gift and housewares industries. With a range of products from Beechwood utensils and measuring spoons and top selling gadgets such as Butter Boy and the 1-Piece Adjustable Pie Shield, Talisman Designs is never short on creativity.
Thousand Hills Cattle Company focuses on flavor, health, environment, and humane animal husbandry when providing its 100% grass-fed beef. Their network of Midwestern family farms raise cattle without any antibiotics, artificial growth hormones or GMOs.
The Tomato Patch, also known as Melrose Tomatoes, grows its produce year-round in five greenhouses on the north edge of Melrose, WI. Rose Strait and her daughters, Ann and Mary, sell to 12 grocery stores and four restaurants within 40 miles of Melrose. Tomatoes also can be purchased directly from the Straits, Monday through Saturday.
Town & Country Egg Farm LLC was founded to bring the love of the farm within the Winona city limits through farm fresh eggs.
At Westby Cooperative Creamery, they create fresh, award-winning cultured dairy foods. Why are their dairy products so fresh? They’re crafted with quality milk sourced from family farms. They’re developed in small batches to deliver freshness in every bite, and we use the fewest ingredients possible.
Wenonah Body Lab is dedicated to the development of 100% synthetic-free, animal free, truly organic and natural skin care products. Since the beginning, Wenonah Body Lab’s belief is that proper packaging is as important as using organic ingredients. We are inspired to develop organic and natural skin care products that are people friendly and earth friendly.
The Wisconsin Grass-fed Beef Cooperative is made up of about 200 Wisconsin family farms who believe that rotationally grazing cattle is the most natural way to raise healthy, tasty beef. All management and business decisions are made by the farmers who own the cooperative, and all profits are returned to the farmers – not out-of-state stockholders. Join farmers from around the state who are bringing premium grass-fed beef to Wisconsin families!
Since 1991, Whitewater Gardens Farm’s mission has been to create a sustainable farm that not only grows healthy, nutritious food, but also enhances the environment and contributes to a strong local community.
From their inception, Wonderstate Coffee Roasters have been driven by a twin-focus: great tasting coffee and fairness to farmers. At their core, they are committed to making coffee better and making it better for all parties involved.