Humble Pie Farm

We are an incubator farm. What's an incubator farm you say? We farm as Humble Pie Farm in the safe nest of Gardens of Eagan, our host farm. We rent land, machinery, cooler, pack shed and many other resources at an extremely affordable cost. It provides us a safety net as we venture into the risky capital and resource heavy occupation of farming. Really, it makes us. It would be so much more difficult to do what we are doing if we had to piece together all of these necessary resources. We are so grateful for the opportunity to participate in this program. 

This weekend our host farm, Gardens of Eagan, is having a giant birthday party celebrating the Organic Certification of this land that it purchased and inhabited three years ago. Oh, it is cause for celebration. 

Mike has worked for GOE for nine years and helped hire me in 2009. A couple of tips of his hat from the tractor and walks amid corn and tomato fields and I was smitten. I went to the farmers market, planted, harvested, weeded and reached out to the community as Gardens of Eagan staff for four years. Now I consider myself support staff as we live in the caretaker residence and Mike continues to farm for GOE by day. It's pretty obvious how very invested we are in this place. We consider the GOE farm staff Earl's extended family. 

This new land that GOE inhabited in 2012 needed some serious love. We picked up garbage. And cleaned. And cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. And cover cropped and planted trees and built soil and infrastructure and place. With the Wedge Co-op's support, we built a farm. Today it is beautiful. The land is beautiful. The buildings are beautiful. The veggies and fruit and herbs are beautiful. And on August 1st it'll be Certified Organic. It is great cause for celebration.

Please join us as we celebrate Gardens of Eagan.

Saturday, 8/2 OPEN HOUSE (free event!): Come celebrate with us from 11:00am to 3:00pm. We will be hosting tours of the fields and greenhouses and collaborating with our incubator farmers, Bossy Acres & Humble Pie Farm to bring you fun & engaging kids activities and fresh farm produce sales & samples, latest T-shirts on sale, Birthday Cake and farmer social at 1:00 under the pergola and more! 

Sunday, 8/3 DINNER ON THE FARM (tickets available $75): Join us for a birthday celebration dinner in the field with amazing food, fresh flowers, local beverages for every taste, live music and a bonfire. August 3rd from 3:30pm to dusk!  

We'd love to see you here!
Jennifer, Mike & Earl