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Your 2024 Guide to Local Gifting
We’ve got a one-stop-shop for you this weekend to celebrate the holidays with delicious, high-quality sustainable groceries and unique handmade gifts for everyone on your list. When you shop at MCFM you can feel confident that you’re supporting local producers who are using ethical and regenerative practices that meet our Sustainability Statement and Local Sourcing… Read More →
Finding a Sustainable Food Future with a New Midwestern Crop
The American Hazelnut Company is a co-operative of growers bringing a new, climate-friendly crop to the Midwest. Stock up on hazelnuts along with hazelnut flour and oil at the next two winter markets (December 2nd & 16th) before they’re gone until next season! Words by Alia Jeraj, @aliaxgrace “We are not young,” write the growers… Read More →
2023 Next Stage Grant Awards
Congratulations to Mill City Farmers Market’s 2023 Next Stage Grant awardees! The Next Stage Grant program provides funding to local, regenerative farmers and other food makers who are improving sustainable farming and business practices or growing toward the “next stage” of their businesses. This year we awarded 14 grants totaling $79,790 to support local farmers and food… Read More →
2023 New Vendor Roundup
We welcomed a record number of new vendors this year – 24 of them, to be exact! Here’s the complete list of the newest MCFM vendors including farmers, artists, sustainable home goods, bath and body care, a bookmobile and more. Check out their vendor pages for a list of their market dates, and be sure… Read More →
Krishna’s Delight
2023 Guide to CSAs at the Market
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it is a way for community members and consumers (like you!) to support small, local and sustainable farmers and food producers by committing to buying from them for a season. Many CSAs are the length of the growing season here in Minnesota, while others go year-round. In other… Read More →
2022 Next Stage Grant Awards
Congratulations to Mill City Farmers Market’s 2022 Next Stage Grant awardees! The Next Stage Grant program provides funding to local, regenerative farmers and other food makers who are improving sustainable farming and business practices or growing toward the “next stage” of their businesses. In 2022 we awarded 10 grants totaling $63,626 to support local farmers and other vendors… Read More →
Schmickle Co.
Pure Ginger for You: A pandemic start-up with a mission to heal
Mill City Farmers Market vendor Pure Ginger for You shares their journey into business tied with Beau’s immigration story, health changes and a calling to serve the community through the COVID-19 pandemic. By Jenny Heck “Back in Liberia, ginger was my mother’s pharmacy. We made ginger tea and beer almost every week. The benefits were… Read More →
