Alternative Roots Farm

About

Alternative Roots Farm is a certified organic family farm in rural Madelia, Minnesota, selling apples, seasonal produce and greenhouse-grown winter greens.

John and Brooke Knisley own and operate Alternative Roots Farm, a five-acre family farm certified organic since 2014. They also manage a ten-acre apple orchard near Lake Crystal and grow winter greens in a passive solar deep winter greenhouse. Their farming emphasizes conservation and wildlife habitat.

Products

• Apples pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Apricots pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Asparagus pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Baby salad greens pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Baking apples (seconds/blemished) 5 lbUS$5.00
• Garlic pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Microgreens pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Mustard greens salad mix pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Pea shoots pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Plums pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Raspberries pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Rhubarb pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower
• Zesty microgreens pack size not providedPrice: ask the grower

Pickup and delivery

• pickup

  Subscription available

  Winter Wellness CSA: 7 pickups November–March at the farm store or Mankato Winter Farmers Market only if dates line up; $285 per share.

• pickup

  No subscription

  Self-service farm store at 11197 130th St, Madelia, MN 56062; open year round Tuesday–Friday 9:00am–7:00pm, Saturday 9:00am–2:00pm, or by appointment.

Upcoming markets

• Mankato Farmers Market
• Mankato Winter Farmers Market · 9:00am - 12:00pm on the FIRST and THIRD Saturdays, November to March; indoors at Bomgaars, Mankato.

Markets listed on the grower's website; check with the grower before you go.