Food & Farming Conference

"Building a Virtual On-line Food Hub for Small Scale Sustainable Farms in Rural Areas”is a presentation on how we built an online farmers market in North Branch, Minnesota with potential and still growing outreach to East Central Minnesota. We will discuss what we learned from our experience, how we measured success and failure, and some of the challenges of an urban style pro-organic online project in rural corn-and- soy farm country which continues to suffer an organic farming food desert.  The North Circle project is designed to create a local rural food system supporting small-scale family farms using organic and regenerative growing methods, supported by surrounding communities in North Branch, Cambridge, Isanti, Wyoming, Center City, Taylors Falls, Almelund, and Stark Minnesota. We are growing food and community together.