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Les Olson

Sep 22 2018

BSG Is Now Available at Tim & Tom’s Speedy Mart

Big Stone Garlic is now seasonally available in grocery stores in 5 states!

The Backhaul process is in motion. Local distribution is growing.

These photos were taken at Tim and Tom’s Speedy Mart in St. Paul, MN.

Our garlic in the produce aisle
Tim & Tom’s small produce display
close up photo of our packaged garlic
First photo ever of Big Stone Garlic in the produce section of a retail store!

 

Written by Les Olson · Categorized: Garlic News

Sep 11 2018

Week One of the Backhaul Project

Last week we shipped more garlic as part of UofM Extension’s Backhaul Project than we thought we’d ever see leave our farm at one time. Here is an update one week later.

graphic stating 4860 bulbs of garlic available
graphic stating 1404 bulbs of garlic sold to grocery stores
graphic stating 22 grocery stores selling backhaul garlic

Local garlic from Big Stone Garlic traveled from the farm in Correll, MN to Bonnie’s Hometown Grocery in Clinton, MN (yellow)- where it was loaded on a truck and backhauled to Mason Brothers Grocery Wholesale, and transferred to Russ Davis Produce Wholesale (orange). Grocery stores around the region ordered the garlic – here are the shelves where it can be  found after week one!

We expect the store locations to multiply, and we are pleased with the initial response – the model worked and got the local garlic out to the stores through backhauling. – Ren Olive, Program Associate, Sustainable Development Partnerships | U of Minnesota Extension

Downloadable List of Retail Stores Selling BSG – Week One (pdf)map showing grocery stores that carry BSG garlic

Written by Les Olson · Categorized: Garlic News

Jun 24 2018

Big Stone Garlic is on MPR News!

Big Stone Garlic is taking part in a University of Minnesota pilot project to get locally grown farm products to small town grocery stores. Check out the MPR segment: Grocers, growers, garlic: Can locally grown take root in Minnesota?

Written by Les Olson · Categorized: Garlic News, home

Sep 02 2017

We are Partnering in an Exciting Project with the U of MN

Uofm Backhaul Project Map
Map of Big Stone Garlic (in green) solid black line is the current distribution route, potential markets shown in purple.

Big Stone Garlic is excited to be part of a Backhauling pilot project with the University of Minnesota Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems group.  The projecy leverages our existing network of rural grocery stores and wholesale suppliers to back-haul locally grown produce on emptied wholesale trucks for redistribution through wholesale markets.

This project gives Big Stone Garilc greater access to wholesale markets throughout the region. Wholesale suppliers in turn get access to product from many small and medium sized farms that they otherwise wouldn’t have.

Our garlic is the very first product in this pilot project.  If successsful, this U of M project has the potential to be replicated across the country.   It is super exiting to work alongside the U of M and other folks on the food supply chain on the state and even federal level.

Bottom line is that Big Stone Garlic has better access to a larger market.

Written by Les Olson · Categorized: Garlic News

Aug 15 2017

Welcome to Big Stone Garlic’s 2017 Season!

Welcome to Big Stone Garlic’s 2017 Season! Thank you to all of you who stopped in to see us at the 2017 MN Garlic Festival. It was great to see so many familiar faces and make new acquaintances. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Minnesota’s Garlic Festival, it is a festival created by the Central Minnesota Sustainable Farming Association. It is held the second weekend in August, and celebrates everything garlic as well as supporting a healthy environment and sustainable farms.
Next year, the 13th annual festival will be August 11th, 2018. I hope to see you there.

Written by Les Olson · Categorized: Garlic News

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