Jirik Family Farms

05/16/2025

The Ole Store Restaurant are great at supporting local farms, including ours! 🍁

LOCAL FEATURE: JIRIK FAMILY FARMS
Sweetness from Down the Road 🍁

We’re proud to feature maple syrup from Jirik Family Farms on our menu—because nothing beats the real thing poured over warm hotcakes in the morning. 💛

You’ll also find it drizzled on our Bodega Breakfast Sandwich, available all week on our Lunch and Brunch menus. Jirik is a small family-run farm just 12 miles from Faribault, where they grow organic grains, raise cattle and bees, and tap their woods for this incredible syrup.

Next time you’re in, enjoy a taste of local goodness—and don’t forget to grab a bottle from our retail area to take home!

When you dine with us, you support local farmers and their families. 💙

07/30/2024

🚜🏆 We did it! Our team won 1st place at the Kolacky Days Bohemian Tractor Pull, ending a 14-year streak held by the previous champions! Huge thank you the Tri-City United Ag-Education and FFA and to everyone who came out to cheer us on!

We’ll see you next year!!

Congratulations to Jirik Family Farms on winning the open division of the Bohemian Tractor Pull! They beat Krocak Farms, who had only lost once in the history of the Bohemian Tractor Pull.

Jirik Family Farms - 9.3 Seconds
Krocak Farms - 10.04 Seconds
Booze Fighters - 10.58 Seconds
Mulberry Misfits - 12.10 Seconds
The Outta Towners - 15.30 Seconds

04/18/2022

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158670885478093&id=46959023092

Jim and Joe Jirik harvest maple syrup every year on their farm just west of Faribault on the shores of Shields Lake, where they also raise certified organic grains, cattle and honey. Favorable sap runs this year have made for record breaking syrup production.

04/17/2022

Last week we were interviewed by ag week news about our syrup operation-We start at around minute 26 on the broadcast. Syrup season is slowly coming to an end but we have passed our previous all time record of syrup produced, currently at about 1800 gallons, with at least one more cook to complete!

This week on AgweekTV, the Biden administration will allow summer sales of E15. Some residents of Casselton, North Dakota, are concerned about plans for a soybean processing plant. We'll look at how today's wild economics affect one of the region's important salvage part and scrap businesses. And…

04/03/2022

Record breaking sap runs make for record breaking syrup production! Yesterday we processed about 10000 gallons of sap for a finished product of about 370 gallons, a new single day record! More to make today!

02/14/2022

Syrup season is right around the corner! If you are interested in trying to produce your own maple syrup this year we have all the supplies you will need to get started! We can also answer any questions that you have about the process to ensure you have a fun and successful season!

Whether you would like to do 5 taps or thousands, we can set you up!

03/16/2021

03/16/2021

The 2021 maple season has been an odd one so far due to the weather we've been having, but we are up and running! This year we updated one of our woods and took on another woods to line and tap putting our total tap count up to around 3,000. The season snuck up on us as we went from 2 weeks of negative temps then shifting to 40 above. A lot of family and friends have helped out in getting ready for the season to make it all come together! The weather looks very favorable for sap flow the next 2 weeks so we hope to make a lot of syrup in that time. If you would like to see the operation let us know and we can tell you when we will be cooking!

04/30/2020

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new website! Now with pickup and delivery options!

Check us out at https://www.jirikfamilyfarm.com/

04/18/2020

We will be selling today at Keepsake from 1:00 to 4:00 today. We are stocked up with everything you need including hamburger, steaks and roasts. We will also have all 4 flavors of snack sticks! Below is more information about the market and other vendors that will be at there. Hope you can make it!

Get Your Essentials Direct From the Vendor
at Our Socially Distanced Local Vendor Market
April 18, 1-4pm
4609 135th St E, Dundas, MN, just a short drive from the cities
this week with additional vendors!

Warm weather is around the corner (for good, hopefully!?) and we are planning another Saturday local vendor market for your food essentials direct from the vendor. This will be socially distanced with contact precautions, of course. Orchards will be open for walking and the Cannon Valley Wilderness Area is our backyard for you to to take an off-road hike if you'd like. Cider available by the bottle to go, of course! There will be different vendors this week, so come check them out, list below, from 1-4pm, April 18. Preorders available from some vendors. Links to their website and/or online store in the name.

CannonBelles Cheese
- Tasty local cheeses, they will be here in person this week
Dresow Family Farm
- Cormo and Cormo cross bred roving, yarn and dryer balls and other finished products
Jirik Family Farms
- local maple syrup, honey, meat cuts and jerky
Regeneration Farms
- Free range frozen chicken
The Whole Oat
- natural peanut butter, granola, bath products, hand sanitizer, and more

Two other notes:
1. Greensted Microgreens may be here depending on harvest...reach out if you want to know for sure.
2. If you would like free range farm duck or chicken eggs from Tiffany at Graise Farm contact her for preorder options and you can pick them up here. http://www.graisefarm.com/eggs.html

We look forward to seeing your faces, even if from a distance and masked! Contact us with questions. Tracy & Nate

03/25/2020

Rough looking crew, but that's what it takes to make 1000 gallons of syrup! Still more to make!