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FARM DAYS and Special Local Events We want you to have the best visit possible so please, Call Ahead to Schedule Your Visit, or participate in one of our Farm Days Events. Many other days, because we are a working farm with machinery and equipment operating, it is not appropriate for visitors or tours. At other times, we may be in the fields doing crucially timed work, or out on deliveries. |
A Kubota Tractor with a small tiller now makes quick work of preparing perfect seedbeds. |
A 1948 Allis Chalmers G joins the roster on our farm team! This tractor, and two others just like it, are being restored by our son Zach and will be used for cultivating the rows of many veggies. |
The Next Generation of Farmers Growing Up on Treasured Haven Farm |
Our son, Zach, always the farmer from the day he was born! He grew up pedaling the toy tractors, and now drives and repairs the real ones! When he took his potatoes and crops to the county fair, no boy could be prouder of what he grew. Zach is now the chief farm mechanic. |
Our son, Isaac, aka Ike! He was born a farmer as well, and has always loved the animals and tractors. He started helping build the trails when only three years old and wanted to grow up to run just like his older siblings. Ike has always wanted to be a great innovative farmer. He is taking more responsibility for care of the animals and organic certification of the cover crops, hay fields, sunflowers, and any small grains. |
The farm in 1992. Many things have changed since then, with time and age taking its toll on many of the original buildings, and a lightning strike causing the old farmhouse to burn out inside, but you can see the family garden was always the center of the farmstead. |
Our daughters now live in other states, but growing up on the farm they had their share of animals... the goats, the sheep, the rabbits, the calves, the pigs, and loved being part of 4-H. They were honored to show many Champion goats and earn State Fair Champion Showmanships and the prized 4-H County Herdsmanship at the State Fair. You can see the pics of their shining and proud faces while participating in the Lamb Lead at the State Fair where they modeled their own wool outfits that they had sewn themselves. They also grew into very poised showman with their goats. As a farm family, our vacations were not to a far destination, but were simply attending and participating in local County Fairs, and the grand Minnesota State Fair. At least one of us had in some way had an entry, or thirty, or been part of some exhibit or competition starting in 1976 at the Minnesota State Fair, and at the Chisago County Fair since 1971. Every summer was a hectic one with all the chores and getting ready for the highlight of the year which was that County Fair, and one year the kids exhibited 35 animals and over a hundred other exhibits! It was crazy! But we do miss those days, we had so much fun! Looking at the pictures here we wonder where all the time has gone. Our family enjoyed when Elise played her saxophone in many county fair talent contests and won to go to the State Fair on multiple occasions. One year at the State Fair she won her night at Baldwin Park, making the finals of the Minnesota State Fair's County Talent Contest. That same year with a different performance at the Talent Contest at the Bandshell she was Runner Up on her night.... so close to getting to the Grandstand Finale, but was runner up both nights. That music still gives mom goosebumps when she hits those high "money" notes in "I Will Always Love You" and "Wind Beneath My Wings". Mom, Peg, drove through the night to get Britta home from college so she could surprise her sister and see her perform in the finals night. That was a crazy thing to do as we were also showing Open Class Goats at the State Fair that year and we were all exhausted, but it is all about Family! "Family" and being together is very important to us! After our house burned, we all realized that things are just that, things, it is the people who matter! We bonded like velcro in the months after the fire when we lived with seven people in a camper.... but really I think it was the best experience of our lives! All of the girls are now married and starting families of their own, but they help the farm any way they can. Elise works on the behind the scenes in technology applications for the farm and is our farm Meteorologist while living in Alabama. Elise and her husband are have a son and a daughter. After running in college while pursuing a degree in Sports Administration, and as an assistant college track coach, Britta now uses her love of running to help coordinate our trail runs. Britta and her husband live in Iowa and have a son and a daughter. Kayla may have moved from our farm, but she married a farm boy who is the fifth generation of his family on the farm in Northwestern Wisconsin and they have two little boys and a little girl. Although there have been many adventures and definitely plenty of challenges, it has been a joy growing Treasured Haven Farm into the rural sanctuary it is today. As the years go by it morphs and changes with time... Blessings to You All! With Love from The Johnsons |
Our Family receiving the State Century Farm Award at our local Chisago County Fair presented from Farm Bureau and the MN State Fair... Mom looks a bit bedraggled after racing back from a long and hot day of CSA deliveries! |
Out planting onion plants and potatoes with the new (used) planters in the field across the road. |
Treasured Haven Farm |
320-358-3581 |
About Our Farm Treasured Haven Farm is family owned and operated. All members of the Johnson Family; mom, dad, and our five children, are involved in some area, including the CSA, crop production and delivery, trail maintenance and race organization, lumber sawing and milling, laser design and production, website design and other communication. Even our daughters who live in other states get involved in promoting and helping the farm. Our farm is the home farm where Peter grew up and is recognized as a Century Farm, being owned by some member of his family since 1899. We grow organic hay and grain crops including sunflower seed, corn, oats, barley, and manage the woodland and wildlife areas of over 100 acres. Zach also owns a neighboring 40 acres in the woodlands. We are on the edge of the Scenic St. Croix River Valley in East Central Minnesota and have developed our own self maintained trail system throughout the farm for access to tap trees for maple syrup and manage the woodlands. We pride ourselves in providing quality goods, services, and opportunities at a great value. We are a farm family with a definite passion and purpose. We believe strongly we were put here to care for this corner of the earth and share its beauty and bounty with others. For more pics and info about the family and the next generation of farmers, see below. Have a Great Day! The Johnson Family |
Treasured Haven Farm Pete and Peg Johnson Family Rush City, Minnesota info@treasuredhavenfarm.com 320-358-3581 |
OUR DAUGHTER ELISE'S Weather and Research Site www.simplyshocking.org |
OUR FAVORITE QUOTES Click Here |
Britta and Ike running the Living History Farms Off-Road Race in Iowa. They enjoy participating in similar races so that can do a better job of putting on our own races. |
Peg has been a Guest Speaker on |