Farm News and Updates

Eat, drink and be local
By Rick Nelson, Star Tribune
Last update: December 17, 2009 - 10:05 AM
Give the gift of farmstead cheeses, from the CSA program at Shepherd's Way Farms in Nerstrand, Minn. (www. shepherdswayfarms.com).

Paydirt: Money where your mouth is
By KARA McGUIRE, Star Tribune
Last update: October 17, 2009 - 11:44 PM
Slow money is a movement to invest in what you eat. Fed up with the stock market? Sick of greedy megabanks and Wall Street bailouts? Then take your money and invest in what you eat. That's the idea behind slow money, a movement coming into its own at a time when interest in local food is rising and exasperation over a global financial system gone wild is high.

The food artist of the year is clear: Shepherd's Way Farms makes a glorious art of cheese, and survival.
By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Published on December 28, 2007 at 10:03am
When City Pages asked me to name an artist of the year, one thought rang out in my mind like a church bell's peal: Shepherd's Way Farms, Jodi Ohlsen Read and Stephen Read, no question, no second thought, they're the ones.