“Providing ecologically sustainable grain products that benefit the long-term health of our clients and our planet because how your food is produced does matter!”
The Grain Place, located on the Vetter Family Farm in Marquette NE, has been growing organically since Don Vetter quit chemical farming in 1953. He saw the results of intense tillage, chemical application, and overfarming – soil that was more dead than living, farm wildlife diminishing, and his family's quality of life declining. After earning degrees in both agronomy and theology, Don's son Dave returned home in 1975. The two became a team that perservered through hard learning years-honing skills, learning lessons, and experimenting with everything, but always keeping the health of the soil front of mind.
“For David, organic, sustainable farming methods became an application of both biological and theological principles.”
The Vetters are not only pioneers of organic growing in the midwest, but organic grain cleaning, processing and handling. They were among the first farmers in the midwest to have large quantities of organic crops that needed to be processed – cleaned, sorted,dried, conditioned, milled, rolled and packaged- and out of that need came Grain Place Foods. The processing side of Grain Place Foods is now well known in the region and country for it's quality products and highly skilled staff. They have helped to kindle the fire of organic and ecological farming throughout Nebraska, and the US.
“Whenever possible, we to source the highest quality grains close to home. Of Grain Place Foods’ 128 current growers, 101 of them are from the Midwest. Including 46 from Nebraska!”
What Grain Place Foods offers:
- Organic barley, brown rice, freeze-dried blueberries, chia, cane sugar, corn, flaxseeds, kamut khorasan wheat, millet, oats, popcorn, quinoa, rye, soybeans, spelt, sunflower, triticale, wheat, cold pressed vanilla extract.
