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Alternative Roots Farm Certified Organic apple and fruit farm. Over 40 varieties of apples! Farm store, canned goods, garden plants, winter greens, holistic wellness. A.R.F.

Building community resiliency by shortening the supply chain, food preservation, building new food systems. Promoting resilient local food systems, self-sufficiency and conscious care of our planet & community through food, farm products and education. Alternative Roots Farm is a certified organic family farm and orchard offering Organic apples, perennial fruits and winter greens, holistic wellness items and more - find our goods at our on-farm store year round, at the Mankato Farmers Market, Graze Co-op (New Ulm) and more. Harvesting over 40 varieties of Organic and heirloom apples! Check out our popular Apple Shares CSA. Fresh pressed cider at the farm store, in-season. The farm sits on 5 lovely acres in rural Madelia, which supports pastures, orchards, big home garden and a passive solar winter greenhouse, on-farm store (and cidery ). has been certified organic since 2014. We are also Real Organic certified. Check out our website for more info and updates, and sign up for our newsletter (sidebar or email us) for all the latest news! Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/alt.roots.farm

10/20/2026

Winter Wellness CSA begins next month - I have several Shares available!! Check out deets over on the blog and holler at me with questions, or to reserve a share!!

Market bell has rung! ✨Come on down and shop local!! Lots of goods and vendors ready for a sunny, warm, blustery day at ...
10/10/2026

Market bell has rung! ✨

Come on down and shop local!! Lots of goods and vendors ready for a sunny, warm, blustery day at market!! 👩‍🌾

🍎Baking Apples $5/5lbs
🍎Applesauce & Apple Butter
🫙Elderberry Jelly
🍅Pizza Sauce & Zesty Poblano Salsa
🌿Herbal Welness items!

🦟Bug Trio:
~Herbal Bug Spray - vanilla helps with gnats!
~Tick Away - I have been using this to deter the dang ankle biting flies! Works great!!
~Bug Bite Salve - Soothes and Repairs!

See you soon!! 👏

See you at market tomorrow!!!!!’ ✨➡️Saturday markets runs through the END of October!My schedule: Oct. 10 & 17 ✅…gone on...
10/09/2026

See you at market tomorrow!!!!!’ ✨

➡️Saturday markets runs through the END of October!

My schedule: Oct. 10 & 17 ✅
…gone on break Oct. 24 & 31
🌿Back for ALL winter markets beginning Nov. 7!!

Pizza Sauce and Zesty Poblano Salsa are ✨seasonal✨ items! Available until gone!!

5 lb bags baking apples continue for the next two weeks only.🍎

Herbal wellness items make great gifting!! Start you Christmas shopping early!

🌬️💨It will be windy tomorrow, so look for me in my usual spot, but no green tents!! 🤣

Shop local!! We appreciate you!

OKIDOKI! Time to get this cleaned up. Set up. Get it growing!! Who’s ready?!🌱🌿 Winter greens incoming!I havent peeked in...
10/05/2026

OKIDOKI! Time to get this cleaned up. Set up. Get it growing!! Who’s ready?!

🌱🌿 Winter greens incoming!

I havent peeked in here in months. 😆🫣 But looks like Leo put a nerf gun in here. 🤣 Hoping for no surprise spiders!!

Let’s go!!

✨Market bell has rung!!! 🔔Market runs 8 am to Noon!****Markets runs til the end of the month!!!Today I have a limited am...
10/03/2026

✨Market bell has rung!!! 🔔
Market runs 8 am to Noon!
****Markets runs til the end of the month!!!

Today I have a limited amount of baking apples.

Lots of canned goods!

Herbal wellness, as always!

Thank you for coming out and shopping local!! 🍏✨👩‍🌾

OPE what did I forget to add??!!Finally got some homemade chicken stock made, but looks like I forgot to add a good spla...
10/01/2026

OPE what did I forget to add??!!

Finally got some homemade chicken stock made, but looks like I forgot to add a good splash, or 1/4 cup, of white vinegar to my canning water!

Doesn’t affect the final product, but makes clean, and the jars on my shelf easier and prettier!!

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**UPDATE 9/26**Farm friends--tomorrow’s forecast (9/26) is a little too rainy & windy -- I will not be attending the Man...
09/25/2026

**UPDATE 9/26**
Farm friends--tomorrow’s forecast (9/26) is a little too rainy & windy -- I will not be attending the Mankato Farmers' Market. (Apple Share folks you should have received a text.)

I will be back next Saturday Oct. 3rd.

PLEASE go support the vendors that WILL be setting up! Market is open in the Best Buy parking lot from 8a-12p.

See you next Saturday! In the mean time the farm store is open Tu-Fri 9-7 and Sat 9-2.

Approaching the end of the season has me thinking about the plants I need to bring in to make medicine ✨ this winter.Com...
09/24/2026

Approaching the end of the season has me thinking about the plants I need to bring in to make medicine ✨ this winter.

Comfrey is a star plant in the orchard green mulching trees. I also dry it for a nourishing tea. Today I infused some in oil for making our lovely Knitbone Salve.

Comfrey aka Knitbone is a great musculoskeletal remedy.

She’s wild and bushy. You’ll see comfrey around the base of the apple trees when you visit the farm store. The bees love it!!

I also need to tincture some plantain!! Time is getting short!

The update ya never really want to give, but it is what it is and there is nothing we can do but make the best of it.It’...
09/24/2026

The update ya never really want to give, but it is what it is and there is nothing we can do but make the best of it.

It’s slim pickin’s this year, so priority always goes to our CSA Apple Share members.

Why? It’s a lower production year coming off a large bounty two years ago, and a pretty good crop last year, as well as several years of drier conditions. Highest pressure in some areas, sprinkle a little hail over here and there you go. Organic orcharding is not for the weak. 🫣

We have good stuff going all year round, so there is no shortage of ways you can keep buying, and gifting local from us. Baking Apples (seconds) for processing, baking or budget eating remain available.

Thanks farm friends - we couldn’t do it without you!

🍁Happy Fall Ya’ll!🍂Chili is already on repeat around here. Fresh tomatoes insist.Doing myself a favor and prepping spice...
09/22/2026

🍁Happy Fall Ya’ll!🍂

Chili is already on repeat around here. Fresh tomatoes insist.

Doing myself a favor and prepping spices for the next four batches, tp save a little time.

I love to do this for future me. 😍 It’s also a great way to prep spices, and future meals, in the pantry.

Next I need to get to canning more beans!!

What does fall have you starting to cook on repeat?! ✨

Address

11197 130th Street
Madelia, MN
56062

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm

Telephone

+15074396541

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