Greenroutes 2.0 is online!

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We're Back! 

We are pleased to announce that Green Routes is back online with a new, updated website: https://greenroutes.org/

Green Routes is an easy-to-use tool to help you find one-of-a-kind places to eat, play, shop, sleep, and learn. Click through fun fall and winter events on local farms, vineyards, B&B's and other great businesses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Find great places to grab pizza-on-the-farm, local wine, fresh foods, handmade gifts, and celebrate fall with harvest festivals and dances! We are excited about the new site and invite you to take a tour! Your feedback is important, please send us a note if you have any comments, suggestions, or ideas for new business listings.

 


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Where cuisine, culture, and conservation meet travel.

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We're Back!

We are pleased to announce that Green Routes is back online with a new, updated website: https://greenroutes.org/

Green Routes is an easy-to-use tool to help you find one-of-a-kind places to eat, play, shop, sleep, and learn. Click through fun fall and winter events on local farms, vineyards, B&B's and other great businesses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Find great places to grab pizza-on-the-farm, local wine, fresh foods, handmade gifts, and celebrate fall with harvest festivals and dances! We are excited about the new site and invite you to take a tour! Your feedback is important, please send us a note if you have any comments, suggestions, or ideas for new business listings.

 



Showing This Weekend!
Nature: A Walking Play at Squash Blossom Farm

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TigerLion Arts presents Nature, the mythic telling of Emerson and Thoreau's mutual love affair with the natural world. Grounded in the story of their friendship, this virtuosic production offers a perspective on their lives that is strikingly relevant, richly complex, and yet utterly simple. Nature is performed outdoors as a "walking play." A professional ensemble of actors takes the audience on a journey through the natural environment as scenes unfold around them. Bagpipes, ancient flutes, drums and rich choral arrangements are intricately woven into the experience -- performed on the beautiful 1910 farmscape at Squash Blossom Farm, Oronoco, MN. This weekend (October 7-9th) only! Learn more and get your tickets HERE.

Come and Get It!

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Whether it is a dinner bell or the classic “chuckwagon” style triangle, people on farms across the country have heard the ringing and accompanying cry of “Come and get it!” as the call to a great farm-fresh meal. These days it is not only the farm-hands rushing to the dinner table – our region is home to the pioneers of on-farm dining! Just a few hours driving can bring you to well over a dozen “Pizza-Farms” and other spots serving the freshest imaginable food. You can sign up for a Dinner on the Farm and celebrate local food right at the source!

Check out our Come and Get It listings to find great places to eat on the farm!



Calendar - Pizzas and More!

Winter Barn

Think that you missed out on getting farm fresh pizza from a local farm this summer? Think again! Pizza nights on the farm are continuing throughout the month. Grab pizza from Red Barn Farm of Northfield Wednesday night from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm, from Stoney Acres Farm 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm Friday night, and then again on Sunday night from A to Z Produce and Bakery from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm, for the whole month of October!

Don't like pizza? Reserve a spot for a fancy farm to table dinner at Campo Di Bella Winery Restaurant on October 15th, November 19th, or December 17th. Or volunteer to harvest grapes at Next Chapter Winery Friday October 7th, 14th, or 21st, and get a free glass of wine!

Check out these other fun food and farm events celebrating the season:

Calendar Activities

Southeast Harvest Dance and Potluck
Rochester, MN

SFA Southeast Chapter is hosting a Harvest Barn Dance and Potluck to reconnect with existing and potential members from 6-11 p.m. Oct. 8 at Four Sisters Farm. Bring your favorite salad and/or dessert; main dish (meat & vegetarian) will be provided. 

This event is free and open to all; donations to SFA Southeast Chapter are appreciated.

Saturday, October 8, 6pm- 11pm
Big River Farms Annual Potluck and Harvest Party
Marine on Saint Croix, MN


Join Big River Farms for their annual festive, fall Harvest Party & Potluck! Bring a dish to share and come enjoy a fall afternoon on the farm with great food, beer, music, kid's activities, raffle, wagon rides, and more!




Sunday, October 16, 4pm - 7pm
Cheesetober Fest at the Food Building
Minneapolis, MN


Grab your friends and join us at FOOD BUILDING on October 23, 2016 for the cheesiest event of the season! We are teaming up with local cheese makers for our very own CHEESETOBER FEST.
Admission includes two beers from Indeed Brewing or the Draft horse, a cheese themed meal, samples of local cheese, and live music.


Sunday, October 23rd 12pm- 5pm

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