Note: Kisheri Farms will be joining us FULL-TIME starting on May 31st!
Kisheri Farms is owned and operated by Relyndis and Marius Tegomoh. What started as an urban farm to grow traditional food crops in their Roseville backyard in 2020 has evolved into the purchase of a 7-acre organic farm in Kenyon, MN to continue growing plants, culturally relevant produce, pastured eggs and chickens in 2025 and beyond! Their mission is to learn and share how to grow nutritionally dense food using sustainable and regenerative practices for small and medium scale farms. Their farm’s goals are to scale up and grow more nutritious, fresh food for our existing customers and markets, expand their clientele to MCFM in Minneapolis, and provide more food for the local West African and African American cultural community and increase access to culturally relevant vegetables like sweet potato greens, njamma njamma, waterleaf, bitter leaf, okra, pumpkin leaves, amaranth. They sell culturally relevant food to food shelves in Ramsey and Hennepin County through Twin Cities Food Justice and The Food Group’s LFET program that provides fresh vegetables to their clients for free and to The Good Acre’s LEAFF program. They have been gardening their whole lives, beginning in Cameroon.
Relyndis is the primary farmer, and Marius, family members, and friends help support the farm in many ways. Relyndis has been a small business owner for the past two decades. Relyndis has been part of the Big River Farms Grower Training Program and incubator program and has taken grower training classes, educational workshops, attended conferences, and toured many local organic farms. She serves on the Emerging Farmers Working Group through Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the MN African Immigrant Farming Association (MAIFA), and is an emerging farmer leader, sharing her experience and mentoring other emerging farmers along the way to help them also get started successfully farming in MN while receiving mentorship from Laura Cullip at Loon Organics Farm and others.
“We grow the vegetables that we grew up cultivating and eating in Cameroon/West Africa. When we moved to Minnesota in the 1990’s, we continued to garden here and grow our traditional vegetables. I love gardening, growing my own food, feeding my family and community, and we could not find fresh West African vegetables in the grocery stores. In 2020, we started growing more vegetables in our Roseville backyard and sharing and selling them to our friends. In 2023, we started our business, Kisheri Farms, growing on a larger scale and learning more about farming in Minnesota. We have attended numerous workshops, conferences, and trainings to learn more about organic farming.”
