We re-connect (Season 2 Episode 29) with Brad  Glynn, co-founder, COO, and Sales and Marketing lead for Lift Bridge Brewing Company, a Minnesota-based craft brewery located in Stillwater that has opened a second taproom in Wisconsin and has redesigned their flagship beer, Farm Girl. 

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We get a chance to talk with Alexandra Adams from the award-winning food company Alemar Cheeses located in the Food Building in North East Minneapolis.  Alemar will be one of the featured makers at our First ever Makers Of Minnesota Dinners at the Lexington on September 28.

Get your tickets here and join the folks from  Alemar Cheeses, Red Table Meats, Bakers Field Flour and Bread, and 3leche  as Chef Antonio from the Lexington uses their products in a 3-course meal that he feels highlights all of these wonderful Minnesota made products from the Food Building in North East Minneapolis.

You will be our exclusive guest at The Lexington and get to talk to the Food Building makers, as well as pre-order your first-ever Makers Of Minnesota Holiday gift box that I have curated. Get your tickets now and join us on September 28 for a fun night celebrating the wonderful Makers of Minnesota.

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15 miles up the North Shore from Canal Park is one of Duluth's most celebrated restaurants rebranded as an Airstream food truck called Scenic 61 due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.  Chef/owner Scott Graden, has pivoted his Nordic cuisine multiple times to meet the changing restaurant landscape.

He is about to embark on the Minnesota State Fair with his Sashimi tuna tacos, a dream he has had for over 20 years. We catch up with Scott before his State Fair debut.

"The Farmer and the Chef " cookbook features more than 90 chef-driven recipes reflecting the life of food and farming in Minnesota's farm-to-table community.  Photographed by Katie Cannon and Written by Claudine Arndt in conjunction with the Minnesota Farmers Union this book captures the long history between the farmer and the chef.

We get a chance to have a catch-up call with Wes Gardener from Bakers Field Flour and Bread located in the Food Building in North East Minneapolis.  We last heard about Bakers Field Flour and Bread  (Season 2 Episode 25) and they are going to be one of the featured makers at our First ever Makers Of Minnesota Dinners at the Lexington on September 28.

Get your tickets here and join the folks from Bakers Field, Alemar Cheeses, Red Table Meats and 3leche  as Chef Antonio from the Lexington uses their products in a 3-course meal that he feels highlights all of these wonderful Minnesota made products from the Food Building in North East Minneapolis.

You will be our exclusive guest at The Lexington and get to talk to the Food Building makers, as well as pre-order your first-ever Makers Of Minnesota Holiday gift box that I have curated. Get your tickets now and join us on September 28 for a fun night celebrating the wonderful Makers of Minnesota.

Kira Vanderlan owns Zestful Designs. The company provides staging for homes but also provides organizing and decluttering services as well as design. Now that we have spent 18 months in our home listen to how Kira provides a process and a plan for making it beautiful.

We had the opportunity to catch up with Kristy Boike who with her father Ron,  developed Rudolphs Bluebird Houses, a Bluebird House-making company. The Bluebird House making was a way to process the grief that  Ron was feeling from the loss of his wife from Breast Cancer. 

(Listen to that episode here: Rudolphs Bluebird Houses Season 2 Episode 6)

Fast forward two years as Kristy Boike releases her book on children's grief called "Rise Up Little Bluebirds", published by Makers Of Minnesota past guest Wise Ink Publishing (Season 1 Episode 29).

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Jared and Valerie Luhmen are grass-fed cattle farmers. They also provide an opportunity for people in the Twin Cities metro area to purchase high-quality, honest, affordable, and delicious 100% grass-fed beef in bulk – from the farm to your plate with a convenient pickup location in Minneapolis. Grass-Fed Cattle Co does all the hard work,  simplifying the process to make it quick, easy, and affordable to enjoy a safe and delicious meal, all the while knowing exactly where your meat came from that is local, free-range, antibiotic-free with no hormones.  Order their beef here.

Greater Fergus Falls finishes their "Meet the Maker" series to promote the burgeoning maker's scene in Fergus Falls. In this episode, we meet Kristin and Josh Mohagen from TC Chocolate. TC Chocolates are a favorite of chocolate fanatics and have won many awards and are manufactured right in Fergus Falls.

Greater Fergus Falls is underwriting a few Makers of Minnesota episodes this Summer to highlight their maker community. Check out Greater Fergus Falls on Facebook and see what they have to offer makers and businesses in their community.

Enter Promo Code: Inspire15 to save 15% on your TC Chocolate order

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 Andy Berg worked in the corporate office setting for more than 15 years as an engineer. And then, 2020: cue the pandemic. Latitude Studios is a solution born from a problem, as all the best ones are. Andy and his wife Sarah were thrust into work-from-home life, as many of us were, in 2020. and they needed a separated workspace that was, in fact, not in their home. Thus, the idea of building studios out of shipping containers was born. The new shipping container - workspace studio allowed Andy to “go” to work in the morning but still lock the door and leave work at the end of the day. He and Sarah’s wheels started turning, and soon, Latitude Studios was born.

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