Minnesota Homeowners Start Urban Farm Growing Mushrooms in their Lakeville Home
New items this year include tiara cabbages and Mexican gherkin cucumber–also tiny items.
By Marketers Media
Digital Journal
November 16, 2021
Excerpt:
Danielle and Peter Ralston think big with Tiny Tinks Farm
Peter and Danielle Ralston’s backyard is a 4,000-square-foot wonderland. With mushrooms growing inside and out of their home, colorful nasturtiums blooming, and 17 varieties of heirloom produce all around, it’s a beautifully unique landscape, and not what one would expect in a suburban backyard.
Mowing the lawn was Peter’s least favorite thing about owning their house. He’d always dreamed about having a large vegetable garden. He asked Danielle, his wife, “Are you going to be OK with me taking up most of the backyard for a garden we may or may not be able to make succeed because I don’t know what I’m doing?”
As a parent to a growing family of boys (including one just born this July), Danielle told him to go ahead. “At least we’ll be able to use all the produce for ourselves and cut down on our food bills.” The couple broke ground on their joint lifestyle venture that blends the professional and personal, incorporating their children in the work to make their organic urban micro farm run. This is their third season at Twin Cities metro area farmers’ markets.
