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Meet Farmers Lue & Kia

Lue Lor (left) and Kia Chang (right), Early Birds Farm Farmers Lue Lor & Kia Chang grow many of the fresh, organic veggies you’ll find in your weekly CSA shares. A few years ago, Lue was introduced to the Big River Farms (BRF) education program through friends. Lue and Kia started farming here as “The Early Birds” on a […] Read more

Celebrate Pride

Happy Pride Month! This month, and all year long, we celebrate the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities within Minnesota’s LGBTQ+ farming family, including nonbinary and genderqueer farmers. We also recognize the high rates of racism, sexism, and other forms of identity-based oppression and discrimination that queer farmers and QTPOC (queer and trans people […] Read more

Your Support Matters!

Moshky Farm’s weekly CSA share Our CSA program is one of many services and offerings here at Big River Farms. Farmers in our education program can opt into growing and selling their organic produce directly to you through our cooperative CSA model. In addition to the BRF CSA, farmers here develop and operate other independent markets too, […] Read more

Your Support Matters!

Moshky Farm’s weekly CSA share Our CSA program is one of many services and offerings here at Big River Farms. Farmers in our education program can opt into growing and selling their organic produce directly to you through our cooperative CSA model. In addition to the BRF CSA, farmers here develop and operate other independent markets too, […] Read more

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Emerging Partner Spotlight: The Sanneh Foundation

At Corcoran Park in South Minneapolis, the community comes together on Friday afternoons. The atmosphere is lively and festive. There is music playing, hot cocoa, and pan dulce (a Mexican sweet bread) being served, and a large group of young folks in attendance. The Sanneh Foundation coordinates this weekly gathering. It is a priority to […] Read more

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