Great Heritage Farm

09/06/2026

I love early mornings on the farm. Quiet and cool with the sun waking everything up. The oh so familiar routine of morning yet somehow new and unique each day.

09/06/2026

09/01/2026

08/31/2026

GRASS-FED GROUND BEEF BUNDLES: 100% AMERICAN RAISED!

Limited supply of on-farm ground beef available, sold in 10 lb bundles. Order here: https://great-heritage-farm.square.site/product/ground-beef/17

Our cattle live 100% outdoors and on pasture year-round. We harvest our beef between July and October, while the cattle are still enjoying lush, green pasture.

We NEVER feed grain. Our cattle are raised naturally on diverse, spray-free pastures, right here in southern Minnesota.

And we believe you should be able to see exactly where your food comes from. You’re always welcome to come to the farm and see how we raise our beef. We value full transparency and are proud to raise your food right here on our family farm.

Thank you for choosing to support a small American farm. It is truly our pleasure to serve you!

Bundle of 10 pounds of our premium ground beef. Our ground beef is raised 100% outdoors and on pasture year-round. We harvest our beef between July and October to ensure our cattle are on green pasture at the time of harvest. We NEVER use grain or any other inputs such as hormones, antibiotics, or v...

08/31/2026

Yes those are "weeds" - but the butterflies & finches and even our cattle enjoy them so much!

08/30/2026

Sometimes I walk outside at the end of a long day and realize I have been given a front-row seat to something pretty spectacular.

The sky - we can literally watch the weather roll in
The livestock - growing and thriving on pasture
The insects - little workers who pollinate, move nutrients, and add beauty
The crops - something to look forward to harvesting

The whole complicated, beautiful system of creation doing what it was designed to do.

I am grateful to be a small part of it.

08/29/2026

Farming is hard: There are broken things, wet things, muddy things, expensive things and plenty of days when nothing goes according to plan. I always joke "just a few zero's to your dollar signs when you make a mistake in farming."

But there is also this: Cattle on green grass. A beautiful morning. A full garden. Kids growing up knowing how to nurture and care.

There is a lot of joy here, too.

And I don't want to be too busy working to notice it.

08/28/2026

Super curious what happens with this after all the uproar last week over the cheap beef imports. I have been a longtime proponent of the PRIME Act, which would give states more flexibility to allow locally raised meat processed at small, custom slaughter facilities to be sold within the state.

I’m not sure if this is related to the PRIME Act or something else entirely, but as a beef farmer, I know one thing: it would be nice to be able to sell a family a few pounds of beef—not require them to buy a whole or half beef—and use the same trusted local butchers we already rely on, like Schmidt’s in Nicollet or Brickhouse in Ga***rd.

Right now, if I want to sell that same family a pound of ground beef, I have to take my cattle over an hour away to a USDA-inspected facility and pay the additional processing and transportation costs. Meanwhile, that exact same pound of beef can be sold through a whole or half beef share and processed at a trusted local locker.

The beef doesn’t become safer because someone bought a whole steer instead of a pound.

It’s a frustrating example of how regulations can make it harder and more expensive for small farmers to sell locally—and ultimately, those costs either come out of the farmer’s pocket or get passed on to the consumer.

I’d love to see more common-sense options for farmers and consumers who want to buy and sell locally raised beef.

08/28/2026

There is a lot happening in a pasture that you can't see at first glance.

Roots reaching down. Plants feeding the soil. Cattle grazing. Insects moving from flower to flower or cow patty to patty. Birds searching for their next meal.

The more I learn about farming, the more I realize how little I actually see.