Our Products

Cheese

Prairie Hollow is a licensed, farmstead cheese producer. In order to receive farmstead cheese designation in Minnesota, a farm must milk their own animals and make cheese on the farm in an inspected processing plant. Prairie Hollow Farm has been making cheese since 2000, and has gained a reputation for high quality cheeses that embody the flavors of southeast Minnesota.

Beef

Taste! That's the first thing we tell people when they ask why grass fed beef is better. Once you've eaten a juicy, stunningly flavorful steak from one of our grass fed animals, you'll wonder why you didn't do this sooner. Of course, there are lots of other health, nutritional, economic and environmental reasons to eat locally grown grass fed beef. But as far as we are concerned, taste is the best reason!

Pork

Pigs are the world greatest garden tillers. Using their strong snouts and their love for roots, they work through a patch of ground very efficiently, eating weeds, turning over the soil and gaining weight while doing it. They also consume the whey from cheesemaking, waste cheese and garden refuse, turning it into fertilizer. Since our pigs are never fed corn or soy, their meat has a different flavor that is more complex than conventional pork.

Bread

In the late 1990’s, the Benike Family started growing different varieties of wheat in a quest to find an alternative protein source for their dairy cows. In 2001, they tried kulm wheat which proved to yield well on their organic soil. More importantly, it was high in protein, making it an excellent supplemental protein source during the winter months when the cows rely on a diet of hay. Pam, who learned to make bread as a child, knew the best bread flour was high in protein, so she ground a couple pounds of wheat kernels into flour and baked a batch of bread. The aroma of the baking bread was absolutely incredible and the flavor was superior to every other kind of wheat she had tried.

Vegetables

Our family has a multi-generational history of growing vegetables without chemical fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides. Each generation learns new tricks and passes those on to the next generation along with all the information gleaned from years of experience. All our vegetables are grown following regenerative, organic practices. You can be assured that everything you get from us is safe and wholesome, as well as great tasting. During the winter months, we grow fresh greens and other cool weather crops in our four unheated greenhouses. The greenhouses rely on the heat that is stored in the ground to maintain temperatures that allow the crops to grow even in the cold Minnesota winters.