Rare Bird Soap Shop
Wende Fugate specializes in small-batch vegan soaps and skincare products free from sulfates, parabens, and preservatives.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Grinnell Heritage Farm
Type: Farm
Produces: Vegetables
Location: Grinnell, IA
Miles from Coop: 82
“One of the advantages of raising crops in an organically managed system, where you have as a very explicit goal trying to sequester carbon into the soil, is that we can actually fight climate change through healthy eating.“ – Andy Dunham
Andrew & Melissa Dunham and family “grow organically for our future” on their 150-year-old farm in Grinnell, Iowa, creating good jobs for over a dozen hard-working people and carrying the family’s farm into a greener future.
From Iowa to Tanzania and back again, Andrew took a roundabout journey to his family’s 150-year old family farm as its 5th generation farmer. His experience in the Peace Corps taught him the basics of organic vegetable farming, and his love of eating drove him to return to Iowa and take up the family farm in Grinnell.
With his wife Melissa, Andrew transformed the former corn and soybean farm into an organic oasis that includes 18 acres of organic vegetables. Grinnell Heritage Farm is particularly well known for their flavorful local carrots they offer through farmers’ markets, their CSA, and of course, New Pioneer.
Andy & Melissa on Growing Organic:
The Local Farm to Customer Connection
Grinnell Heritage Farm Products
Checkout these great products from Grinnell Heritage Farm
Beets
Brussel Sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Collards
Green Peppers
Kale
Red Chard
Other Local Producers
Be sure to check out these others great local producers!
Echo Dell Farm
Calvin Yoder of Echo Dell Farm has been raising whole, local, organic chickens for New Pi since 1988.
Kalona, IA
Organic Greens
For James Nisly, growing organic vegetables is about fulfilling a vision of producing healthy food for a healthy community and building well balanced soil for sustainable food production.
Kalona, IA
Oak Hill Acres
Andy manages over 4,000 flower cuttings in their two greenhouses and thirty acres of organic produce.
Atalissa, IA
Sobaski's Pork
Aaron’s pigs have: “Plenty of room to run, root around, dig holes, and go outside, and they just don’t get sick – they’re overall healthy pigs.”
Washington, IA
Milton Creamery
The Musser family – Rufus, Jane, and sons Junior and head cheesemaker Galen – make artisanal cheese the old fashioned way, and source their added growth hormone-free milk from less than 30 miles away.
Milton, IA
Maharishi World Peace Vedic Organics
Basking in the warm greenhouses at Maharishi Vedic City Organic Farm, kale and chard are living it up.
Fairfield, Iowa
Urban Greens
Stop by your Co-op to try out the new Lettuce Medley or Bold & Spicy Salad Mix from Urban Greens
Iowa City, IA