I don’t know about you, but as a lifetime Minnesotan I know that I feel like I’ve come out of hibernation each spring, and I dance with joy around the flowering lilacs and fruit trees!
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Which Came First?
Today I want to talk about eggs. No, we don’t raise chickens at 5 Sisters Organics (yet), but some people in Minnesota are creating a regenerative farming revolution centered around chickens. You can read about
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Much to Our Relief, Spring Arrived Again
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” (Margaret Atwood) We are welcoming spring 2022 to 5 Sisters Organics farm in Bemidji, Minnesota. We talk a lot about growing
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Keeping Traditions
We kept 2 family traditions active this weekend: making lefse and hunting deer. Kathy and one of her sons hunted up at the farm this weekend, while the rest of us made lefse together. We
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Celebrating Family
We had a fantastic Christianson family reunion last weekend at the farm and at family homes. It was so fun to spend time with our uncles and aunts (who grew up on the farm), their
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Stock Your Pantry
We’ve opened our online shop for sales! We sold out last year, so get enough to last the winter. I store my garlic in the cellar space under my stairs, and each year my garlic
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The Cure
Can you just smell this room? Our organic, gourmet garlic is harvested and hanging in our drying barn to cure for a few weeks. Then we will prep it and be ready to sell it
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Family Meeting
Months ago, we scheduled a family meeting for April 5, 2020, to discuss farm goals, schedules for the summer, and to just have family time together. Even though we couldn’t be together physically this time,
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Four Generations
My mother grew up on the farm, but my sisters and I did not. While we all have our memories of Grandpa and Grandma Christianson’s farm, we don’t know everything about the history of the