075: Jack Hedin on Creating a High-Performing Farm from Chaotic Beginnings

Jack Hedin owns Featherstone Farm in Rushford, Minnesota. Farming 132 acres of certified organic vegetables (out of 250 total planted acres), Featherstone Farm provides around two million dollars of produce directly to stores, restaurants, and distributors in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, to a produce warehouse in Chicago, and 900-plus summer CSA shares – in addition to seasonal add-ons. Featherstone Farm got its start twenty years ago on 5 acres in a narrow valley in the bluff country of southeast M...