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Healthy Food, Sustainably Grown, Close to Where We Live
Healthy Food, Sustainably Grown, Close to Where We Live
"The future of fresh food is on its way to Minneapolis. They'll have garden-fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers, basil and micro-greens, grown outside and inside all year long. It's a destination farm, education center, and whole-foods plant-based food hall (cafe open weekends), with a tomato soup bar (inspired by Fridheimer Tomato Farm in Iceland), Bloody Mary bar, and local guest chefs. It's a short drive west of Excelsior in beautiful Mayer, MN. We can't wait!"
With more than 100 years of family farming experience and history behind us, Arcola Farms was founded in 2023 to extend the short northern growing season, and provide the best fresh, delicious, healthy food, grown year-round.
Here, outdoor open-field agriculture and food production cooperates side-by-side with the latest in indoor farming. Our new 80 acre destination farm, education center, and food hall cafe includes our (first phase) 5 acre state-of-the-art, Dutch engineered climate controlled glass greenhouse. Inside, the changing weather doesn't affect growing conditions, so we can sustainably grow and supply fresh nutritious produce, year-round.
We use sunlight, renewable energy, and a fraction of the water used in conventional farming, with no harmful chemical inputs. Locally grown with the best Non-GMO and organic seed available, we deliver food when it's most fresh, long-lasting, and best tasting.
Climate-smart greenhouse grown food is increasing nationwide at a time when our food supply needs change. We can't depend on weather and external environmental factors in what is already a very short growing season.
We all need access to safe, fresh, nutritious, locally grown food, in a dependable consistent supply. Adapting the food system in the wake of a changing climate, and addressing supply chain food shortages is more important than ever.
Simply delicious. Unbeatably healthy. For us, and for the planet.
Have a connection to the people who grow your food. Arcola Farms
Local Access to Food is Important
Here, agriculture and technology meet to grow indoor crops at a crucial time when access to food has changed. The climate is changing. The weather is changing. Transportation and logistics delays, and a lack of quality, fresh, affordable food options make it critical to have environmentally friendly solutions to fresh food that's grown near where we live.
Crops Every Month, All Year
That's a big deal. It's a positive change to the food system, when we aren't limited to growing outside in the elements, whatever the elements may be. Inside a beautiful state of the art greenhouse, we can grow crops continuously, and rotate the foods we want. It's a continuous cycle of food production. Not just one crop per season. The future of farming was pioneered in Europe by the Dutch, who are now the second largest exporter of produce in the world. Their greenhouses of the future are here now, and have changed the food supply in the Netherlands; a country that is 1/5 the size of Minnesota. The Dutch have become world leaders in agricultural innovation, pioneering new paths to fight hunger and remove chemical inputs to improve human health. We are replicating that same philosophy and technology to change the food supply here.
Crops every month, all year, quickly increases high volume access to local food. Food that's not transported, but food that's grown where we live.
The Pandemic Revealed Further Need
Pandemic Highlights The Concern: When the pandemic began to seriously alter the national food supply chain, the need for locally grown food became more evident than ever before. Even though controlled environment indoor farms have been expanding throughout America, we still only grow a tiny percentage of the food supply. Indoor farms have steadily increasing demand to provide fresh, local food, at a time when weather, transportation, and labor make food more difficult to get.
A Solution for Food Scarcity - FeedThePeopleWhoNeed
Food hubs, food shelves, schools and health care institutions need access to fresh food continuously. It goes far beyond grocery stores and restaurants. Food insecurity is real. Kids and families go to sleep hungry. Poverty is all around us, we can do so much more. Instead of a 4 month growing season, we now have a 12 month season of local produce. So we can reach more people. We really can #FeedThePeopleWhoNeed
Food hubs, food shelves, schools and health care institutions need access to fresh food continuously. It goes far beyond grocery stores and restaurants. Food insecurity is real. Kids and families go to sleep hungry. Poverty is all around us, we can do so much more. Instead of a 4 month growing season, we now have a 12 month season of local produce. So we can reach more people. We really can #FeedThePeopleWhoNeed
A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
Whole food plant-based eating should be the affordable, easy, accessible first choice. The health and wellness benefits of eating this way are increasingly known. The rise in awareness, popularity, and demand for "Fresh, Local" has never been higher.
"Back in the Day" is Back Again
"Back in the day" is an era that few remember. Until World War 2, back yard gardens (Victory Gardens) were the common way for American families to grow their food, then save it for the long 8 month season when food couldn't be grown locally.
Back in the Day is now back again. Next-generation farms have developed to the point where we can replicate ideal growing conditions, anywhere. So we can have beautiful summer-fresh leafy greens, perfect red ripe tomatoes, and vegetables of all varieties, every month of the year. Not just in the short, weather affected, outside growing season.
Food as Medicine. Food as a Prescription
The growing trend of Food as a Prescription means that hospital systems and medical practitioners now prescribe and deliver food boxes, so that patients and families have access to fresh food, and are learning simple menus to make real food taste great. Our work makes that possible, every month of the year.
Knowing Where Our Food Comes From
Consumers today are revealing their values with the purchases they make. They want to have a connection to the people that grow their food. As more people realize the sources of fresh food they eat, the more they see how far the food travels. How damaging the toxic chemicals in that food are, for people and planet. The future of food will rely on a system that combines traditional agriculture in fields, where regenerative agriculture will make food safer, and the widespread adoption of farms of the future. Local, modern, year-round.
Sustainability and Climate Health
We have entered a new age in American agriculture, and the future of food. Sustainable growing practices in high tech indoor farms substantially lowers our carbon footprint and reduces food waste. Arcola Farms is proud to lead the way in healing our planet.
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