Minnesota Food Association

Minnesota Food Association (registered 501C3 nonprofit organization) actively pursues the mission to build a more sustainable food system by growing and distributing food, bringing new farmers into farming through training immigrant farmers, and networking, partnering and sharing with many diverse community-based organizations, nonprofits, foundations, government, local businesses, and institutions.  Now celebrating its 25th year, MFA operates with the goal of ReLocalizing Food Systems. more

News and Upcoming Events
Big River Farms CSA (formerly May Farm)- 2008  Delivery Begins Thursday, June 26!
Farm pick-up, home deliveries and Thursday deliveries begin on   Thursday, June 26. With Monday deliveries beginning on Monday, June 30.  The first box will have radishes, lettuce, peas or broccoli, green onions, kale or collard greens and a surprize! For your pick up days see below: 

Thursday deliveries go to:	Monday deliveries go to:
Bayport	Bloomington
Forest Lake	Burnsville
Stillwater	Eagan – Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Mpls: Augsburg College	Eden Prairie
Mpls: Butter Bakery	Edina/ France (Zenith Ave)
Mpls: Franklin and 26th Ave	Edina SW - Wellness Resources
Mpls: Seward Coop	Golden Valley – HDR Engineering
St. Paul: Mississippi Market	Maple Grove
St. Paul: Golden Thyme Café	Roseville
St. Paul: Wilder Foundation	Mpls: Eastside Coop
White Bear Lake: The Nest	Mpls: North side (15th Ave N)
White Bear Lake: Red Pine Blvd (North WBL)
Farm pick up
Home delivery

Minnesota Food Association and the Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women of Minnesota recieve Community Partnership Award!
The USDA - Farm Service Agency awarded teh 2008 FSA Community
Partnership Award to the Minnesota Food Association and the Associatioin for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota on June 10,2008 at a ceremony held at the USDA State Outreach Council meeting.  The award was given in recognition of the long-standing efforts in supporting new immigrant farmers get started in building viable farming enterprises and for co-hosting the 3rd Minority and Immigrant Farming Conference held last March in St.Paul.


Josh Bryceson, our farm manager since 2005 has purchased his own farm!
We are celebrating Josh's ability to accomplish his dream and we are sad to see him move away from us.  We have begun our search for a new farm manager and we plan to have one hired in the late fall, so that our next season will go smoothly.  Josh will assist in training our new farm manager.  Please pass this information on to anyone you know who may be interested. Position Announcement - Farm Manager for Big River Farms.pdf

MFA in Pioneer Press
In the September 2nd issue of the Pioneer Press, MFA was highlighted in an article entitled "Fresh on the Farm" by Bob Shaw. Detailing urban Minnesotans increasing involvement in agriculture, the article talked about the New Immigrant Agriculture Project and Big River Foods.

Click here to see visit the website link for the article.
Or download a PDF transcript of the article.

Get the MFA Digest - Newsletter - Spring 08.pdf in DF format