Turnip Rock Farm

11/07/2020

Neighborhood Roots Winter Market
4901 Chowen Ave S Mpls, 55410
Saturday 11/7, 10am-1pm

09/12/2020

Time lapse of me and the crew clearing hoop house tomatoes. 1.5 hrs. Seeded down to spinach the next day

04/11/2020

I will spread positivity

03/30/2020

You know a good mechanic, probably call a regular plumber. Next best thing to planting your own?- Call a farmer.

03/21/2020

Next home delivery for twin cities is April 2nd. Plenty of fresh spinach, breakfast sausages, ground beef and pork chops, plus more. minimum 50$ order no delivery fee.
Visit our online farm store www.turniprock.com

03/14/2020

Bam bam had a heifer.
The theme for calf names this year is ‘dessert’. We named her Bundt.
She will stay with Mom.

If you want some good food grow by a little farm, we deliver all over the Twin cities Metro area. Or pick up on the farm. Next Delivery scheduled for Thursday March 19. Visit our online store www.turniprock.com.
Pork, Beef, And one of a kind cheese! and ! we have spinach harvested out of our high tunnel this week. No market attendance required.

03/08/2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/africa/agriculture-regenerative-farming-climate-crisis-intl/index.html

I support anyone eating what they want to eat, but please be informed about farming practices and make the effort to support those practices you like. Preferably by buying direct from the farm.

Danie Slabbert points toward the cattle that brought his farm back to life. Down the slope ahead of him, 500 black Drakensberger and mottled Nguni cows graze cheek by jowl.

03/02/2020

Sap is flowing.

04/10/2019

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/best-advice-u-s-dairy-farmers-sell-out-fast-you-n887941

On average, farmers spend $1.92 to produce a gallon of milk and make $1.32 when they sell it to processors. This is the fourth year in a row that farmers’ milk prices have dipped below the cost of production.

“We could buy all the gallons of milk out of the grocery store, bring them home to our bulk tank, pour it in there and sell it back to them and make more money,”

News Flash, our food system is broken. This article from June 2018 does a good job of explaining it.

Small-dairy farmers are getting squeezed out by corporate agriculture. “That is not what America is about," a struggling farmer said.