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In May of 2002, Mennonite family Dave & Carolee Rapson moved to Hawkeye, Iowa from Michigan to pursue a dream of starting their own dairy farm.
Carolee had been making wonderful homemade yogurt for a couple of years and knew how to create a product that our family enjoyed on a small scale. After discovering that there weren’t any other yogurt producers in Northeast Iowa, and that there was a demand in our community for local, healthy, all natural, cultured foods (like yogurt), they decided to pursue the unique art of making yogurt on a larger scale as well. |
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Ferndale Market was founded by Dale Peterson, who had grown up in rural North Dakota and studied poultry science in college. He chose the land in the Little Cannon River Valley in Minnesota because of its ideal environment for raising turkeys outdoors. Soon after, Dale married Fern and together they fostered a family farm that has been running strong for three generations.
Along with raising free-range, antibiotic-free, naturally processed turkeys on their home farm, they work closely with partner farms that grow turkeys following our raising practices. |
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Minnesota - Coming Soon!
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Wisconsin - Coming Soon!
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