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Home About Us Market Members In Season What's New? The Beet Discussion Board Producers' Page Links Contact Us Contact Info St. Joseph Farmers' Market P.O. Box 565 St. Joseph, MN 56374 (320) 845-2280 Luann Otto, Chair	The St. Joseph Farmers' Market is a dedicated group of individuals committed to building a link between the St. Joseph community and area growers and producers by providing an enjoyable venue for purchasing fresh, local food directly from the grower. Board of Directors LuAnn Otto, Chair Shelly Carlson Paula Doebler John Hooper Jill Johnson Tim Kuebelbeck Mary Niedenfuer S. Patricia Ruether Steve Saupe Bill Otto, Market Manager The Board meets the first Monday of every month at 7 pm at Stonehouse Tavern in St. Joseph, MN. Board Minutes The St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, founded in 2000 under the auspices of Healthy Community Partners, has these central purposes: Building community relationships by directly linking those who produce food with those who consume it. Providing local producers an opportunity for optimum economic return through direct marketing of their products. Ensuring local consumers an opportunity for fresh, healthy food which is the harvest of their own bio-region. Retaining local money in the local area by direct exchange among people. Providing a natural setting that invites people to meet and to enjoy the yield of what a community working together can offer. Educating people toward greater understanding of their interdependence upon one another and their ties with the earth, and, thereby, to an awareness that they are shareholders in sustaining this rural area. Our first market opened in 2000 in the parking lot of the old Del-Win Ballroom in St. Joseph. It was successful from the start, proving that the community was eager and ready for a farmers’ market. It has since moved to its current home on the greenway south of Resurrection Lutheran Church next to the Wobegon Regional Bike Trail. The market is unusual in that it was founded by local community members rather than by farmers looking for a way to sell their surplus products. Those community members wanted to provide area residents the opportunity to buy fresh produce from local growers and producers, and at the same time, offer local growers a venue to sell their vegetables, fruits, and other products. Sustainability can be defined as a social, economic, and environmental system that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland, 1987). The founders of the market developed a mission statement early on with sustainability at its heart.

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St. Joseph Farmers' Market
P.O. Box 565
St. Joseph, MN 56374
(320) 845-2280
Luann Otto, Chair

The St. Joseph Farmers' Market is a dedicated group of individuals committed to building a link between the St. Joseph community and area growers and producers by providing an enjoyable venue for purchasing fresh, local food directly from the grower.

Board of Directors

LuAnn Otto, Chair

Shelly Carlson

Paula Doebler

John Hooper

Jill Johnson

Tim Kuebelbeck

Mary Niedenfuer

S. Patricia Ruether

Steve Saupe

Bill Otto, Market Manager

The Board meets the first Monday of every month at 7 pm
at Stonehouse Tavern in St. Joseph, MN.

Board Minutes

The St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, founded in 2000 under the auspices of Healthy Community Partners, has these central purposes:

Building community relationships by directly linking those who produce food with those who consume it.
Providing local producers an opportunity for optimum economic return through direct marketing of their products.
Ensuring local consumers an opportunity for fresh, healthy food which is the harvest of their own bio-region. Retaining local money in the local area by direct exchange among people.
Providing a natural setting that invites people to meet and to enjoy the yield of what a community working together can offer.
Educating people toward greater understanding of their interdependence upon one another and their ties with the earth, and, thereby, to an awareness that they are shareholders in sustaining this rural area.

Our first market opened in 2000 in the parking lot of the old Del-Win Ballroom in St. Joseph. It was successful from the start, proving that the community was eager and ready for a farmers’ market. It has since moved to its current home on the greenway south of Resurrection Lutheran Church next to the Wobegon Regional Bike Trail.

The market is unusual in that it was founded by local community members rather than by farmers looking for a way to sell their surplus products. Those community members wanted to provide area residents the opportunity to buy fresh produce from local growers and producers, and at the same time, offer local growers a venue to sell their vegetables, fruits, and other products.

Sustainability can be defined as a social, economic, and environmental system that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland, 1987). The founders of the market developed a mission statement early on with sustainability at its heart.