My Sister's Farm. This is a local buyers/producers group that meets monthly. It is now a small farmer's market where several vendors offer products. Buyer's pay a $1 membership, added during checkout, at each farmer's market event. Noreen Thomas organizes this group. See the linked website for details about the next meeting.
Hornbacher's supermarkets in the Fargo-Moorhead area are locally owned and all have organic sections and carry some local foods. Hornbacher's has been responsive to requests to carry local food, including Mark Askegaard's flax, wheat flour and berries, vegetables; Hugh Dufner's organic potatoes, and Lynn Brakke's organic beef. Look and ask for local foods at the following store locations:
-Northport
-Southgate
-Osgood
-Moorhead
-Express.
Breadsmith of Fargo is a locally owned bakery that uses local ingredients when ever possible. Phone: (701) 478-8000; Website: http://www.breadsmith.com/locations/fargo.html; 1617 32nd Street South, Fargo.
Maple River Winery, a local winery, has a storefront at 628 Front Street in Casselton. Phone: (701) 347.5900; greg@mapleriverwinery.com.
Lakes & Valley CSA. Contact Anne Morgan at 218-732-4866/1093;
11059 County 14;
Park Rapids, MN 56470; Website: http://www.lakesandvalleycsa.com/; E-mail address:sgmorg@wcta.net.
If you would like to grow your own . . .
Probstfield Farm. This organization provides space for community gardens. You can download a contract from the website and garden your own plot of ground. To rent a plot, please contact Gretchen Harvey at harvey@cord.edu. Plots are usually rented starting in April.
If you want to buy ethnic foods . . .
Asian & American Market; 1015 Main Ave;
Fargo, ND 58103; phone: (701) 271-0687
African General Store; 122 23rd St S, Fargo, ND 58103; phone (701) 365-0773
African Market; 1230 23rd St S
Fargo, ND 58103; phone
(701) 297-3530;
(701) 271-0687
Balkan Food; 122 23rd Street South, Fargo, ND 58103; phone: (701) 280-2836
Somali Business Center (SBC); 122 23rd St South, Fargo, ND 58103; phone (701) 235-9444
If you can't find it, and need to order it . . . try these tested and trusted mail-order contacts.
Wild Rice, Organic Coffee. Native Harvest, White Earth Land Recovery Project, Callaway, MN.
Flours, Grains, Cereals. Natural Way Mills, Middle River, Minnesota.
Dried Beans, Lentils, Peas. Purcell Mountain Farms. A family-operated farm in Idaho, Purcell Mountain Farms is a great source of organic dried beans, lentils, and peas.
Green Coffee Beans. Coffee Bonito. Eugene Oregon. I began Coffee Bonito to order green beans when I became aware of issues associated with bird habitat. They seem a little more aware of the issue than Sweet Maria's, but they do not have as many varieties of coffee.
Green Coffee Beans. Sweet Maria's Coffee Roasting Supplies. Oakland, CA. Sweet Maria's buys coffees from around the world in small lots. You can often buy FTO and organic coffees. They also sell a variety of coffee roasters.