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Edward and Joyce Kreidermacher purchased the farm just outside Altura, Minnesota in 1967, shortly after their marriage. At that time, they raised mainly dairy cows, but soon they expanded into raising hogs. Joyce was always very interested in nutrition and dietary research, particularly in growing specific vegetables that were promoted to be better for certain vitamins or nutritional aspects. When she wasn’t able to find these specific vegetables at nearby greenhouses, she researched how to get seeds and grow the plants herself. Eventually Joyce was growing all her own vegetables (and a few flowers of course) and being asked by family members to grow a few extras for them. One room of the old farm house (which was considered the office, sewing room, etc.) was always lined with hog mats and mist controls (from the hog barn of course) for the many trays of seeds to be germinated in the early spring.

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