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6/17 Local farm hopes to tide folks over with 3.2 million servings of locally grown vegetables

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published June 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM CDT

Eating local is a snap during the summer here in the Northland ... but for most of the months of the year, it's close to impossible unless you've socked away a lot of local produce.

That's just what the Food Farm in Wrenshall is aiming to do - sock away 3.2 servings of vegetables in a root cellar: a really, really big one. Janaki Fisher-Merrit of the Food Farm explains.

More information on the Root Cellar project is available here.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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