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Tolkkinen: Growing veggies paid for siblings' college and fed thousands of Minnesota kids
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Star Tribune
Then they got involved in the Farm to School movement and began selling produce to multiple school districts.
Siblings Zachery and Katelyn Ruppert each saved more than $50,000 for college, primarily through selling produce they grow in southwest Minnesota.
Despite the intense labor, the Rupperts say the income from selling produce, at least in southwest Minnesota, would not support a family.
The typical Minnesota farm doesn't raise produce because it's labor intensive and there's not enough money in it.
Minnesota has vowed to expand the amount of food schools buy from local farmers in coming years.