WE'RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR 2021 PLANT SALE PARTNERSHIP WITH RODRIGO CALA!
All the vegetables that we will be offering at ASG this year will be coming from our friend and fellow organic farmer, Rodrigo Cala, of Cala Farm in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. Rodrigo has been an integral part of the running the Shared Ground Farmers' Cooperative, and a long-time employee at the Latino Economic Development Center based in Saint Paul. One of his farm goals is to make his living entirely off his farm so he doesn't need to drive to the cities so often. By supplying all of our vegetable plants from him (with a mutually-beneficial, consignment-based partnership), we hope to help him along with that goal. His farm is certified organic, and he has a lot of experience growing vegetable plant starts for other farmers in Shared Ground. Check out his Cholula Jalapeño in the plant sale!
Mushrooom Grow Kits!
Our friend Mohamed Sewidan is the president of a new mushroom growing start-up in New Hope, Minnesota called New Hope Farmacy! At this time they don't have an easily accessible Minnesota retail location for their various mushroom grow kits, spawn, and sterilized media. So for the time being our new garden center is the exclusive Minnesota retail source for New Hope Farmacy's mushroom products!
EFN Seeds
In addition to embarking upon the garden center together, Colty, Kierra, and Dusty also manage the Experimental Farm Network's seed business. We plan to have most of the EFN seed catalogue in the store, but feel free to place an order online right now if you feel so inclined and we will mail it right out to you.
Who are we?
Well, for starters, we're just a bunch of Richfield kids...grateful that you south-siders might consider taking us in...
Northwoods Botanicals CBD Products
We are thrilled to be offering CBD products from our long-time friend, Gil Schwartz, and his new company Northwoods Botanicals. Gil hails from southwest Minneapolis, but now resides on a beautiful little 8 acre homestead in Ashland, Wisconsin. Gil is also a talented forager and has his own foraging business called Seasonally Sourced. Dusty visited Gil's farm in 2019 and was able to observe his impeccably well-managed hemp growing techniques.
Tools!
Eric and Dusty have been some variation of farmer, gardener, landscaper, and carpenter over the years, and if there's one thing we agree on, it's that we hate crappy tools!