Our Local Plate: Farm Fest & Marketplace

09/14/2024

We are underway with Chef Candace Stock of BernBaums giving a great demo of crepes utilizing many products found around Doubting Thomas Farms!

09/13/2024

We are so very excited for Chef Candace Stock’s demo on Saturday! She gave us a sneak peek into what she's planning - and you’re not gonna want to miss it!

Plus - she's crafting beautiful breakfast boxes for each of the attendees to enjoy during Beth Dooley's presentation in the morning!

Chef Candace attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park NY. She worked her way through restaurants and catering companies on the east coast and has come home to the midwest to focus on her family, connect to her indigenous heritage and provide food medicine to the community. She currently works for BernBaums restaurant in the kitchen helping to fulfill catering. Chef Candace works with the land, foraging ingredients and working directly with local farmers to create nourishing menus.

"My background as a farmer’s daughter taught me at a young age that I have to work hard for my food. The long hours my family spent harvesting or tending their own gardens helped me to realize the importance of respecting the ingredients that are brought to the table."

Now's the time! Grab your ticket for Saturday’s Farm Fest & Market to learn from this creative, talented, & all around superb human being, Chef Candace Stock!

09/11/2024

What a lovely article! A huge Thank You to John Lamb at InForum for interviews with Beth Dooley of Beth Dooley's Kitchen and Noreen Thomas of Doubting Thomas Farms. Love how much each of these ladies lift up the amazing work the other is doing ❤️

“Eat locally, spice globally, ” the James Beard Award-winning food writer said.

09/11/2024

Attention Gardeners:
Join us for the Soil Health & Mulching Demo on Saturday!

Meet Lonny & Sandy Dietz from Whitewater Gardens Farm! Using regenerative certified organic practices, these two have been working side-by-side - building soil health, growing veggies to sell in their local community, and offering native prairie & woodland pollinators from their farm in southeast Minnesota.

“We strive to work closely with nature to make our farm a healthy habitat for wildlife, pollinators and beneficial insects. We work to encourage life in the soil to grow healthy, nutritious veggies for our community.”

Learn tips & tricks on how to build a healthy foundation for the fruits, veggies, and pollinators in your garden! 🌱🍅🥒🌶🌽🥕🧄🥔🍉🌱

09/10/2024

Thebar 1 Farms LLC will be back on-farm with those increadible goat milk carmels - AND (drumroll please 🥁) they're bringing the baby goats again! So bring the kiddos, create some memories, and savor the last days of summer at Doubting Thomas Farms ✨🌻🐐🌞✨

09/09/2024

School's in Session & Farm-2-School Champion, Shannon Nowak of DGF Public Schools is eager to share her experience sourcing local ingredients for their school lunch program - as well as tips for others looking to increase access to local food in their schools!

As Director of Nutrition, Shannon believes "our programs should serve to create community partnerships that support our school district as a whole, while nourishing and educating those we serve."And she's set out to do just that, connecting with local farmers and ranchers to source locally-grown, nutrient-dense ingredients for her students.

To learn more about Shannon's work, join us Saturday, Sept 14th at Doubting Thomas Farms! Rumor has it - she’s bringing samples!

09/07/2024

Hey - did you hear!? The Team at Heart-n-Soul Community Café is at it again - serving up a delicious, wholesome, and locally-sourced meal that celebrates the abundance of the harvest season!

I mean - just look at the Harvest Bowl Chef Joe created for last year’s event! Black beans, beef, tomatoes, peppers, radish, corn, and beets - simple ingredients purchased from area farmers and ranchers, crafted into a beautiful meal. A great example of local chefs supporting our local food economy.

PLUS - the Farm-2-Fork meal is included in the ticket price, so not only are you playing a part in growing sales for our local economy, you are supporting a non-profit who - at the heart of their mission - offers Pay What You Can Afford pricing, where diners pay as little or as much as they are able to, ensuring no one is turned away for a lack of funds. Learn more about their mission to support our neighbors struggling with food insecurity at the link below 👇👇👇

09/04/2024

It's BACK!! Thanks to RDO, the popular barrel train ride is back to give your kids (and maybe YOU) a ride around the yard. We will also have our fabulous entertainers back to keep kids busy by reading books, taking them on forage/scavenging adventures, helping dig in a pit of grains for treasures, and many other activities while you enjoy our foraging/mulching/and farm to school meal demos and discussions. You can also plan on participating in activities with our vendors--such as taking on Bjorn from Hugh’s Gardens LLC in a potato sack race. Shop for goodies from our vendors or talk a stroll to the sunflower patch--which will make for a great photo opportunity! We also have a public local food art activity which is where you can draw or write a note on the side of a semi trailer which will be hauling crops around the region this fall!

There is so much space and activities for adults and kids to enjoy at this event out in the country. The drive and reasonable ticket price is worth it for the kids sack lunch and meal by Heart-n-Soul Community Café alone!

We hope to see you here. Tickets are available at:
https://bit.ly/OurLocalPlate

08/31/2024

Check out this line-up & grab your tickets today!
Saturday, Sept 14th at Doubting Thomas Farms

9:00 - 10:30 am
Breakfast with Beth w/ book signing to follow
Chef & James Beard Awarded Food Writer, Beth Dooley from Beth Dooley's Kitchen

11:00am
Farm Fest and Market - Welcome!

11:20 am
Foraged Foods Cooking Demo w/ Chef Candace Stock of BernBaum's

12:50 pm
Farm-2-School: Shannon Nowak of DGF Public Schools

1:30 pm
Sourcing Locally Panel: Bjorn Solberg of Hugh’s Gardens LLC hosts a conversation with producers, schools & chefs in the local food scene

2:15 pm
Mulching Demo with Lonnie & Sandy Dietz of Whitewater Gardens Farm

PLUS - On-farm fun all day!
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Nature Walk to Sunflower Research Plot
Farm Tour
Farmer’s Market
Guided kids activities with Aimee & Bill
Collective art project, Photo booth, RDO barrel train, bubbles & chalk, flax swim pools, scavenger hunt, art-making, and more!

Find more details & get your tickets at the link below! 👇👇👇

08/27/2024

Yep - it's true! Beth Dooley is coming to town!

Chef and James Beard Award Winning Food Writer, Beth Dooley, of Beth Dooley's Kitchen will be at Doubting Thomas Farms on Sept 14th to help us kick off the 2nd Annual Our Local Plate: Farm Fest and Market!

Join us for an relaxed morning on-farm where Beth will demo a delicious egg dish from her cookbook Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future, share what inspires her in the kitchen - and on the farm, and offer ways we can all connect more deeply to the ingredients we use and the farmers, ranchers & food makers who produce them.

Graze on a sweet & savory breakfast spread, featuring items from local farmers, ranchers, coffee roasters, bakers & chefs. Cookbook signing to follow!

Tickets for Breakfast with Beth are limited.
Reserve your spot today - follow the link in the comments below.

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