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StartupBREW: Reducing Barriers for Upcoming Land Stewards

About Emily Emily Reno is the founder of Mezclada, an online learning platform dedicated to reducing the barriers to land and capital for the next generation of land stewards. Emily…

StartupBREW: Clean Ingredients Without Compromising

About Mollie Mollie Ficocello is the cofounder of Three Farm Daughters, a family-owned clean ingredient pasta company. Mollie was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota and moved to…

Digital Scrapbook #3: Autonomous Nation 2022

On August 30th, Grand Farm held its second annual Autonomous Nation conference. This conference brought together policymakers from the local, state, and national levels with industry entrepreneurs and innovators to…

Get Ready… She Starts Week is Coming!

Can you believe that She Starts Week is happening in two weeks? We have been so excited for this week to come that we had to interview Emma McIntyre, one…

Digital Scrapbook #2: The History Behind the Emerging Digital Academy Cohort Names

It’s time to acknowledge the elephant in the room. We’ve run into a bit of a sticky situation here at the Emerging Digital Academy headquarters (AKA: the Prairie Den), and…

Digital Scrapbook #1: Random Acts of Art Throughout the Years

The “Random Act of Art” series has been a staple of our history. But to take you back through the years of our Random Acts of Art, we first have…

Meet Brian, Emerging Digital Academy Student

Meet Brian, a current student of Emerging Digital Academy’s Gosling cohort!     Where were you born and where did you grow up? Grand Forks, North Dakota.   Why Emerging…

Meet Ujjwal, Emerging Digital Academy Student

Meet Ujjwal, a current student of Emerging Digital Academy’s Gosling cohort!   Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in Nepal and grew up…

Meet Abdishakur, Emerging Digital Academy Student

Meet Abdishakur, a current student of Emerging Digital Academy’s Gosling cohort!   Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in Narobi, Kenya and grew…

Meet Levi, Emerging Digital Academy Student

Meet Levi, a current student of Emerging Digital Academy’s Gosling cohort!   Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Fargo, North…