Matt and Kaisa Hill Farmstead, St. Louis County

Located near the community of Embarrass, Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmstead was one of a collection of rural properties in central St. Louis County that exemplified Finnish immigrants’ imprint on the cultural landscape of northern Minnesota in the early 1900s.

Dream of Wild Health table at a farmers’ market

Dream of Wild Health table at a farmers’ market

Dream of Wild Health produce on a table at a farmers’ market, ca. 2021. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Children participating in Cora’s Kids

Children participating in Cora’s Kids

Children participating in Dream of Wild Health’s Cora’s Kids program, 2021. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Aronia berries

Aronia berries

Aronia berries (chokeberries) grown at the Dream of Wild Health farm in Hugo, Minnesota, ca. 2021. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Alanna Norris

Alanna Norris

Alanna Norris, nutrition program coordinator at Dream of Wild Health, at the Four Sisters Farmer's Market in Minneapolis in the summer of 2021. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Felicia Galvan and Alyssa Parkhurst

Felicia Galvan and Alyssa Parkhurst

Felicia Galvan and Alyssa Parkhurst sell Dream of Wild Health produce at the Four Sisters Farmer's Market in Minneapolis in the summer of 2021. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Turning of the Soil event

Turning of the Soil event

Dream of Wild Health Executive Director Neely Snyder (fourth from right) surrounded by current and former Board members and former director Diane Wilson (second from left) at the Turning of the Soil event held on September 9, 2022. The event kicked off the construction project on a recently purchased twenty-acre property down the street from Dream of Wild Health’s existing farm in Hugo. Used with the permission of Dream of Wild Health.

Dream of Wild Health

Dream of Wild Health is a regenerative farm in Hugo, Minnesota, that offers programs to restore the health and well-being of the Native American community in Minneapolis–St. Paul. Founded in 1998, it is one of the oldest Native-led non-profit organizations in the Twin Cities and has one of the largest Indigenous seed collections in the country.

Produce vendor on Highway 61

Produce vendor on Highway 61

A woman selling produce alongside Highway 61 in Minnesota, ca. 2010s. From Highway 61, by Jessica Lange (powerHouse Books, 2019). Used with the permission of powerHouse Books.

St. Paul Farmers' Market

St. Paul Farmers' Market

Mike Frattalone, Al Hogan, and Pete Wolters at the St. Paul Farmers' Market, 1941.

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