This is not your typical north Minneapolis backyard. But it’s the newly fashioned home for the beginning farmer, 46-year-old Derek Ellis, who stares in wonder, marveling at his Berkshire pigs and what ...
Tracyn Thayer said she wasn't expecting many cranberries this year, in part because winter flooding ruined her irrigation pond south of Bethel. But when she went to her 2-acre farm, wielding a weed ...