Country Acres South - August 6, 2022

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a (Above) Ted Galaty stands in one of his fields with farm his at 27 July hemp of out walking stick he made near Zumbrota. Galaty grows six acres of industrial hemp.

BY KATE RECHTZIGEL | STAFF WRITER

ZUMBROTA Twenty minutes north of Rochester along Highway 52 lies a 10-acre industrial hemp farm, the sole purpose of which is to educate and inform others about hemp. “There are thousands of things you can do with hemp and I’m never going to have all the knowledge,” Ted Galaty said. “I decided to get into this industry because I am a lifelong learner and I am going to be educating myself and others about industrial hemp for a very long time.” Galaty is a retired educator with a master’s in education from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan and an undergraduate degree in Health & Wellness from St. Olaf College in Northfield. He was an advisor for the Medical Laboratory Science and Occupational Therapy programs at the University of Minnesota before

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retiring in 2019 to focus on the farm and business. Before coming to Minnesota, however, Galaty grew up in California, just outside of Los Angeles. “Out of all my relatives, I never thought I’d be a farmer,” Galaty said. The farm, otherwise known as Willow’s Keep Farm, is a turn of the century dairy farm which was started in 1919. Ted and Tricia Galaty bought the farm in 2015 to use as the place for their haunted attraction, Fright at the Farm, which takes place in October. “In our fields we were growing corn for a corn maze and a pumpkin patch,” Galaty said. “I got to the point where I was tired of growing corn. I knew about hemp, and Minnesota had an Industrial Hemp pilot project.” In 2018, it still wasn’t federally legal,

(Left) Hemp, otherwise known as Cannabis Sativa, has been an agricultural crop for 10,000 years. Ted Galaty grows the fiber variety on his farm in Goodhue County. (Below) Oil and soap are some of the products Ted Galaty and his family make.

but the Minnesota Department of Agriculture allowed farmers to become licensed to grow hemp for educational and research purposes. At the end of 2018, however, the farm bill was signed which stated anything below 0.3% delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol in the cannabis plant was considered hemp and was legal to grow and sell.

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