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Organic
Regenerative Farming – The New/Old Way
Since we are proud to be an organic farm, we do not use artificial chemicals to enhance our soil. Instead, we are exploring how different animals and plants on the farm can naturally revitalize and
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Healthy Living
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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Healthy Living
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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Learning About Garlic
Roasting Garlic
Learning About Garlic
We’re Almost Ready!
Last weekend was a flurry of activity in Bemidji to continue processing our garlic. As you remember, we harvested in July and hung the garlic to cure for several weeks. We process our garlic by
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Learning About Garlic
2020 Harvest Begins
We began our 2020 harvest today, and we harvested just under 1/3 of our crop. We have 4 main stations for harvest: digging up the bulbs, cleaning the bulbs, bundling the bulbs in groups of
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Learning About Garlic
Hope Springs Eternal
Hope springs eternal, even in a time of a global pandemic, and there is no better example of hope than the beauty and magic of plants rising from the earth in the springtime. Our garlic,
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Recipes
Garden-to-Table Dinner
Late summer is the perfect time to retreat to simple recipes with ingredients from your garden. Food doesn’t need to be complicated to be good; in fact, the gems from your garden will be delightful