Pizza farm

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A pizza farm can be both a farm-based food-service establishment that sells pizza or a demonstration farm that educates visitors about agriculture by growing pizza ingredients, sometimes on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza slices.{{cite news |last1=Fineman |first1=Susan |title=PIZZA FARM SERVES SLICE OF LIFE |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/10/03/pizza-farm-serves-slice-of-life/7374cf56-088b-4f86-a0e5-19320a22c39f/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Demonstration farms

Some pizza farms are demonstration farms that educate visitors about agriculture by growing pizza ingredients, sometimes on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza slices. The farm often grows ingredients that can be used in pizza, such as wheat for the crust, tomatoes and herbs for the sauce, pork for pepperoni, dairy cows for cheese, and even trees for pizza oven firewood. Certain farms may even have access to coal or natural gas deposits that can be used as additional pizza oven heating fuels.

=Examples of demonstration pizza farms=

Agriculture in the Classroom Canada has yearly student-farmed pizza farms.{{Cite news|url=https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/agriculture/learning-farming-via-the-pizza-1.1965002|title=Learning farming via the pizza|last=Daniels|first=Calvin|date=2015-06-10|work=Yorkton This Week|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181018141613/https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/agriculture/learning-farming-via-the-pizza-1.1965002|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=live}} There are other food farms in the program, including a "burgers and fries" farm.{{Cite news|url=https://www.agcanada.com/2015/10/food-farms-are-a-hit|title=Food farms are a hit: It's a fun way to show kids the link between farming and their burgers and pizza|last=Furber|first=Debbie|date=2015-10-23|work=AGCanada|access-date=2018-10-18|language=en-US}}
The Pizza Farm at Cobb Ranch (Fresno, California){{Cite web|url=http://www.thepizzafarm.com:80/m-thepizzafarm.cfm|title=What's the Story? History of the Pizza Farm|website=The Pizza Farm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206145452/http://www.thepizzafarm.com/m-thepizzafarm.cfm|archive-date=2008-02-06|url-status=dead|access-date=2008-02-06}}
"R" Pizza Farm (Dow, Illinois){{Cite news|url=http://www.sj-r.com/x639781489/Pizza-farm-also-a-place-to-learn-about-organic-methods|title='Pizza farm' also a place to learn about organic methods|last=Grimaldi Olsen|first=Theresa|date=2009-07-31|work=The State Journal|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181018133510/http://www.sj-r.com/x639781489/Pizza-farm-also-a-place-to-learn-about-organic-methods|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=live|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-09-15-pizza-farm_x.htm|title=Pizza-shaped farm draws tourists with organic slice|date=2005-09-15|website=USAToday.com|publisher=Associated Press|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181018140034/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-09-15-pizza-farm_x.htm|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=live|access-date=2018-10-18}}

Culinary pizza farm

Some pizza farms are primarily farm-based food service establishments that sell pizza. Pizza farms have become popular in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Farms often grow or raise many of their own ingredients, similar to demonstration pizza farms.{{Cite news|url=https://twincities.eater.com/maps/pizza-farm-minnesota-wisconsin|title=Where to Eat Pizza on a Farm|work=Eater Twin Cities|access-date=2018-10-18}}{{Cite book|title=Soil sisters : a tooklit for women farmers|last=Kivirist|first=Lisa|publisher=New Society Publishers|year=2016|isbn=9780865718050|location=Gabriola Island, BC|pages=135|oclc=907652945|quote=With roots originating in the Midwest, the 'pizza farm' concept involves a farm serving these cheesy tomato pies, typically with farm-raised fare as ingredients ... Pizza farms serve the pizza 'take-out' style, and guests have the option to take it home or, much more likely, bring their own gear and eat picnic-style on the farm.}}{{cite news |last1=Moskin |first1=Julia |title=Where the Produce Includes Pepperoni: The Pizza Farm |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/dining/pizza-farms.html |access-date=14 July 2021 |work=New York Times |date=25 Aug 2020|quote=Trace the route of the Mississippi River down from Minneapolis and along the Wisconsin-Iowa border. In the last two decades, dozens of farms in this region have built wood-fired ovens, studied the basics of crust, sauce and cheese, and begun serving pizza on summer nights.}}

= Examples of culinary pizza farms =

A to Z Produce and Bakery (Stockholm, Wisconsin)
Amber Waves Farm (Amagansett, New York)
Luna Valley Farm (Decorah, Iowa)
Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm (Waseca, Minnesota)
Hawkins Family Farm (North Manchester, Indiana)
Old Germantown (Germantown, Wisconsin){{Cite news |first=Bobby |last=Tanzilo |date=2022-03-22 |title=Old Germantown is finally firing up its farmstead brewery |url=https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/old-germantown-beer |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=OnMilwaukee}}{{Cite news |last=Kozlowicz |first=Cathy |title=A brewery is slated to open at Old Germantown, a 120-acre farm in Germantown, in April |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northwest/news/germantown/2022/03/25/brewery-slated-open-old-germantown-april-1/7136143001/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |language=en-US}}

Pizza farm

Demonstration farms

=Examples of demonstration pizza farms=

Culinary pizza farm

= Examples of culinary pizza farms =

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