If you’re eating leafy greens in Montana in the winter, there’s a very good chance it was grown in California or Mexico, stuffed in a plastic bag with the logo of a big corporation, loaded onto a truck and shipped to Montana to sit on a grocery store shelf.
That’s unless, of course, you buy food from Winter Kissed Farm in Stevensville, where the dedicated workers bundle up in the cold and use greenhouses to harvest greens and other veggies throughout the long, dark, icy Montana winter when most other agricultural operations are dormant.
With their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, they deliver those cold-hardened vegetables to customers all over western Montana, including Missoula, Helena, Polson, Kalispell, Hamilton, and Stevensville.
Max Smith, co-owner of Winter Kissed Farm, harvests carrots at the farm in Stevensville on Wednesday. Winter Kissed Farm won a $180,000 grant from the federal government to help them expand operations and try to go from 350 current CSA customers to their goal of 500 in three years.
And recently, the farm received some huge news: They won a $180,000 grant from the federal government to help them expand operations and try to go from 350 current CSA customers to their goal of 500 in three years.
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