Traditional Foods

Minnesota

 
 


ONE ADDITIONAL GREAT SHOPPING OPTION:

Well-known and respected Farmer’s Market vendor, ALVIN SCHLANGEN, owner of MN Organic Eggs, has moved his operation from the former TF warehouse & launched the FREEDOM FARM COOP. Alvin delivers a wide range of farm-fresh and hard-to-find foods to members and drop sites  every week. He serves his coop via an on-line ordering system. We recommend it. Once you get past a somewhat byzantine ordering system, and if you agree to the terms of membership for the coop buying group, you will have direct and convenient access to some of the best food in the state!  To get

aboard, go to this site:

http://stores.mnorganiceggs.com/StoreFront.bok

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HOW WE GOT STARTED...

When this idea hatched in my brain several years ago,

I thought, “Gee, this is SO EASY, I wonder why more people aren’t doing it?” Of course, now I know why more people don’t! It’s easy to underestimate all the things that can and do go wrong when you are dealing with perishable and fragile food.  Making fresh food available to others who put their trust upon us is a SACRED RESPONSIBILITY that we don’t take lightly. In building and guiding this project we are aware of the seriousness of each and every detail of raising, processing, handling and selling each bite or food or glass of milk. Food is health, food is matter of life and death for us all.


As founders, we have thrown everything we’ve got into this, sweat, blood and tears, and I mean that literally. None of us are rich in money, but we are passionately devoted to farm fresh food and passionately bonded to each other. We are scraping things together, scrounging at times, splurging when necessary, and sacrificing every scrap of time and energy that, believe me, all of us would like to be putting into our families, friendships, and all the fun things. It’s pretty crazy, but yet, there is no other explanation for all this except to say WE FEEL CALLED TO CREATE THIS. Please excuse our gaps, our limitations, and our growing-as-we-go strategy. Please forgive us if we are slow to answer your call or e-mail during these 12 hour days. Please work with us to make this now-creaky thing work so that our collective vision grows into the beautiful thing that we can all visualize in our dreams. Local, sustainable, fresh, nutritious, artisanal and delicious farm and wild-crafted food for us and our families!

 

LOCATION



    OOPS, we are currently in search of a new central gathering space. Back in 2010, just as we were beginning to achieve critical mass, we endured a major and unexpected shift in control of  our management and, as a result, remain closed for business at this time.

 

Here is what you need to know to be a part of the fun....

HOURS


What you can do in the meantime!

The good news is that we have not given up! There is a lot going on. While we have no specific central location at this time, we continue to serve the community as a grass-roots, all-volunteer traditional foods community. We maintain a very active discussion group, plus we continue to create a wide array of traditional food events, farmer's markets, group buying, lectures, cooking demonstrations, films and farm tours

 

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The warehouse is also available for PARTIES,  LECTURES, CLASSES, and SPECIAL EVENTS.

CALL 612-861-0097 for details.

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To get on board, if you are not already, all you need to do is go to this site to join our FREE DISCUSSION GROUP:

trad-foods-MN-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

This is where everything happens. The founders of Traditional Foods continue to meet as a steering committee and will reemerge soon with the new name Farmesota, Inc. Our mission is to continue to be the true connection between people in the Cities who want traditional, raw, and natural food and the organic and sustainable local farmers who want to produce it. Join up today and say "Howdy"! 

GOOD FOOD



Welcome toTRADITIONAL FOODS MINNESOTA. A place where all people interested in finding, preparing and eating good local food can get all the information they need. We also have a REAL FOOD WAREHOUSE where members of our BUYING CLUB can select from a wide variety of meats, cheeses, milk, eggs, poultry, fish and amazing dry goods!