the farm
Medicine Creek Farm is a sustainable, regenerative Minnesota family farm offering pastured pork and 100% grass fed and finished lamb and beef for custom order.
All our livestock are raised outdoors on pasture utilizing humane animal welfare practices. No prods, no shouting, no manhandling... unless you count that our pigs love belly rubs!
Our heritage breed, pastured pork's grass fed diet is supplemented with organic certified feed from a local Minnesota organic grain farm near Hinckley.
We practice intensive-management, holistic rotational grazing, moving our cattle and sheep to a fresh pasture paddock daily to optimize animal health, soil health, and--ultimately--your health.
The farm is 160 acres of former hay fields being transitioned into permanent pasture. While in recent history the land was occasionally used for row crops, no chemicals have been used for over 10 years.
Our seasonal streams and pond are part of the neighboring Medicine Creek watershed, which in turn flows into the Kettle River and is part of the St. Croix River Basin.
We acknowledge this land as belonging to the Anishinaabe people, and we participate in a regenerative agriculture long cultivated by Indigenous land stewards before us.
To that end, we aim to farm alongside nature, caring for the people, pollinators, migrating birds, wildlife, waterways, and vast diversity of microbial and fungal biology within the soil just as much as the plants and animals we eat.
Located outside the tiny town of Finlayson, we are only about 6 miles west of I-35--an hour and a half drive north of the Twin Cities and 1 hour south of Duluth.
Please come visit us in person and see the farm in action--in the summer we give farm tours each Saturday morning and we have two farmstay rentals for an immersive regenerative getaway! We'd love to have you join us in getting to know the land and the animals that feed and sustain us.
Keep your eye out on social media and sign up for our mailing list to stay in touch and get announcements about farm parties, next deliveries, and our latest projects!
THE CREEK
Upon our arrival here, we spent an afternoon bushwhacking our way to the magical but deeply hidden Medicine Creek just across the road from us.
Some of the locals didn’t even know it was there, and one neighbor proclaimed it a “mud hole,” but we were curious about the watershed where all the farm’s wetlands drain to.
We were astounded by its beauty and wonder, and the pilgrimage made clear to us that our farm is about even more than the good care of our livestock.
We are privileged to now belong to a community of wildlife, and our care taking of this ecosystem includes the birds and bees, turtles and beavers, trees and soils.
Our hope is that you will feel as much a part of this community as we do.
And while your health may benefit from the food raised here, we hope you will also feel proud to know you are a part of giving good medicine back to the land that feeds us.
The Mission
We raise healthy animals on healthy soils to feed healthy communities.
We aim to achieve the highest standards of quality and care for the land, animals, and people who help us bring good food to your table. Utilizing managed rotational grazing of diverse pasture grasses, we participate in a regenerative agriculture that acknowledges the place of livestock in building living biology in our soil. We treat the animals that feed us with respect and dignity and allow them to express their natural behaviors outside in a living ecosystem. And we actively participate in our local community, supporting our fellow farmers, neighbors, butchers, and businesses to revitalize the rural communities that will make a healthier food system for all.
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”