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Stivland Gardens is a family owned hobby greenhouse. In 1990, a 14’ X 20’ hoop house was built to grow herbs and start our own tomato and pepper plants. That year I carried 5 gallon pails of basil to feed the sheep. The growing space has expanded to two structures a 30’ x 96’ greenhouse and a 14’ x 96’ hoop house.
Each spring we have a good selection of bedding plants. Vegetables include tomatoes, peppers, onions, eggplants, broccoli, cabbage, swiss chard, kohlrabi, and squash. We usually have an assortment of annuals, perennials, and herbs – each year we like to try new varieties.
Stivland Gardens is located near Lowry, Minnesota, on prairie land homesteaded in 1868 by Andrew Anderson, Dale’s mother’s Grandfather. Scanning the hillside one can still see where settlers built the first sod house. Dale and Becky moved to the family farm in 1970. Together we have tilled the soil, milked the cows, slopped the hogs, sheared the sheep and gardened for the farmers market.