October 2025 Entrepreneur of the Month

The NIACC John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center and North Iowa Area SBDC are proud to announce Steve Strasheim of Twisted River Farm in Mitchell, IA as the October 2025 Entrepreneur of the Month.

Steve Strasheim founded Twisted River Farm, a five-acre produce farm, in 2014. Steve distributes his produce across North Iowa to grocery stores, restaurants, farmers markets, through an on-farm store, and with a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program.

Steve grew up on a sugar beet farm in eastern Montana, where farming meant raising crops for bulk delivery to a factory or elevator. He explained, “My concept of agriculture wasn’t direct-to-consumer marketing or farmers markets or even vegetables. It was take your sugar beets and your wheat to the factory and do it all again the next year.” When Steve and his wife Marcy began focusing on eating fresh foods in 2012, they struggled to find local options in North Iowa. That search sparked the idea of growing their own produce and eventually selling to others.

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