Tanzenwald Brewing Company is proud to support local producers: we source many of the vegetables, meats, cheeses, and more for our kitchen from southern Minnesota businesses, close to home. Meet them and learn more about the amazing work they do!
Our Local Producers
Brick Oven Bakery
Welcome to the Brick Oven Bakery! Located in Northfield, Minnesota, the Brick Oven Bakery produces handcrafted breads and pastries with no preservatives. We offer both crusty hearth loaves and sandwich breads. Stop in for coffee or tea from one of our baristas and choose a treat from a wide variety of pastries, including our well-known caramel and cinnamon rolls. Our café menu includes breakfast options plus sandwiches, soups and salads for lunch. Our menu changes frequently and features products from local producers.
Website: brickovenbakery.com
CannonBelles Cheese
In 2012, Jackie Ohmann, Kathy Hupf, and Deeann Lufkin started making cheese in their kitchens. We loved how it tasted and realized we should share this with others! From there, the idea for CannonBelles Cheese was born. They have been working with the city and community of Cannon Falls, MN to get their cheese plant up and running. While they work on building their artisan cheese plant, they are making cheese at the University of Minnesota. They make cheese curds in various flavors, queso fresco, cheddar, and gouda. Each is made with locally sourced ingredients, ensuring quality and freshness. They know that their cheeses are something you will be proud to serve to your family and friends.
Website: facebook.com/CannonBelles
Herbivorous Butcher
Siblings Aubry and Kale Walch have spent the last several years perfecting deliciously deceiving meat-free meats and cheese-free cheeses and in January 2016, they opened The Herbivorous Butcher, the nation’s first vegan butcher shop. Their vegan meats and cheeses are made from scratch in small batches with ingredients available at your local co-op. Their mission is to improve the health of people, animals, and the environment through food, and to further their mission they founded a farm sanctuary called Herbivorous Acres.
Website: theherbivorousbutcher.com
Just Food Coop
Proudly serving Northfield and our surrounding communities, visitors and guests since 2004. With programs designed to ensure that affordable GOOD food is available to everyone we welcome everyone to come and see us, shop with us and use our expertise. You’ll find affordable good food here, carefully selected to ensure that products meet our product policy, to feed your family and nourish your soul.
Website: justfood.coop
Living Greens Farm
Utilizing our patented technology, Living Greens Farm provides cost effective and efficient solutions to growing leafy greens and other produce in environmentally controlled facilities that are not subject to drought, pathogens and insects. This provides a consistent and reliable product that can be distributed on a daily basis to local markets. With a sustainable, indoor vertical farming platform we produce healthy, fresh and great tasting produce. What traditional farms grow on 200 acres, Living Greens Farm can grow on one.
Website: livinggreensfarm.com
Valley Natural Meat
Located on 16 acres of farmland in Northfield, Valley Natural Meats will offer USDA and custom processing services and wholesale meat distribution to the central / southern region of Minnesota. We will be processing humanely raised grass-fed, and organic / natural grain fed, locally produced meats for our wholesale market. We’ll also be providing custom processing services for our local farmer-producers. We look forward to meeting our local and regional farmer-producers, and working with them to serve their processing and product outlet needs, and provide the kind of high quality products, service, and ethical operations that our suppliers and customers alike, expect of us.