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Turnip Rock Farm & Cosmic Wheel Creamery

Also known as: Turnip Rock Farm, Cosmic Wheel Creamery

An integrated organic farm and artisan creamery operating as a 'whole farm ecosystem' in Clear Lake, WI. Low-till organic vegetables, 100% grass-fed beef cattle, pastured whey-fed pork, and 100% grass-fed dairy cows that supply the on-farm creamery. Cosmic Wheel Creamery (added 2015) produces raw-milk aged cheeses, fresh curds, and spreadable herbed cheese. Vegetable CSA ran for 14 years and ended 2023; vegetables now sold via farm store, farmers markets (Mill City, St. Croix Falls), select retail, and online farm stand.

What they do

Turnip Rock Farm and Cosmic Wheel Creamery is an integrated organic farm in Clear Lake, WI — about an hour east of the [[minneapolis|Twin Cities]]. The operation runs as a deliberate whole-farm ecosystem: every element feeds another.

Production:

  • Organic vegetables — low-till methods, the farm’s original anchor
  • [[grass-fed|100% grass-fed]] beef cattle
  • Pastured, whey-fed pork — fed the whey byproduct from the creamery
  • [[grass-fed|100% grass-fed]] dairy cows — milk supplies the creamery
  • Artisan cheeses — raw-milk aged varieties, fresh curds, spreadable herbed cheese (Cosmic Wheel Creamery, added 2015)

Retail surfaces:

  • On-farm store — vegetables, frozen beef and pork cuts, cheeses
  • Farmers markets — Mill City ([[minneapolis|Minneapolis]]), St. Croix Falls
  • Select regional retail — partner stores
  • Online [[farm-stand|farm stand]] — orders shipped/picked up

Note: the vegetable CSA ran for 14 years and ended 2023. The farm now points CSA-curious customers to partner farms that include the creamery’s cheese in shares.

Why it’s listed

This is the canonical small-[[viroqua|Wisconsin]] whole-farm integrated operation: vegetables + multi-species livestock + on-farm creamery, with livestock providing fertility for the gardens and creamery whey feeding the pigs. [[directory|The directory]]‘s substrate-builder tier exists for operations like this — where the food economy is held together by the design of the farm itself rather than by upstream supply chains.

Bioregional fit

Clear Lake is in Polk County, west-central [[viroqua|Wisconsin]] — east of the St. Croix Valley, an hour from the [[twin-cities]] metropolitan area. The farm sells into the Twin Cities-anchored farmers-market belt.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[dairy]] · [[farm-stand]]
  • Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
  • Contained by: [[four-lakes]]
  • Also grows: [[livestock-farm]] · [[vegetable-farm]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[regenerative-agriculture]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].

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