Our Story

Our farm’s name, as you might have gathered, originates from the saying ‘home sweet home'. Today we realize that home is indeed on the farm, thanks to the childhood our parents provided for each of us.

The Fulfillment of a Dream

Mark grew up on a 160-acre dairy farm in Thorp, WI. Although helping with farm chores during his childhood was rewarding, Mark decided to study Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota (Go Gophers!). Even while living in Minneapolis, MN for four years during college and then Eau Claire, WI for another six years, he always knew the farm life was where he wanted to be!

Heather was raised on a 220-acre hog farm in Zumbrota, MN. There she was constantly entertained by piglets, beef cattle, horses, chickens, and many other critters that come with 4-H projects. Those experiences created a yearning to live on a farm of her own someday. She attended the University of Minnesota and double-majored in Agricultural Marketing and Animal and Plant Systems (beef production)—proof that she has farming in her blood.

Ironically enough, Mark and Heather first met each other during senior year of college at a mutual friend’s “Anti-Valentine’s Day” party (the mutual friend did not have a girlfriend at the time and was fed up with all the mush of Valentine’s Day). Once Heather learned that Mark was from a dairy farm, she was even more interested in him and many conversations about farming ensued thereafter.

After college Mark and Heather were just farm kids living in Eau Claire and raising cattle on rented farmland in Boyd, WI when they started a quest for their own farm in 2003. Since both of their home farms were being occupied by Mark’s parents and Heather’s brother, they needed to find a farm of their own. The driving forces of desire and conscious belief fueled their farm search. In 2006, they happened upon a For Sale ad for an 80-acre farm north of Cadott, WI in the weekly issue of The Country Today. In November 2006, Farm Sweet Farm LLC was born.

Today, Mark and Heather’s family farm has grown. Besides expanding herd and flocks, they added more acres and two kids to the mix.