[Kohlsdorf] I'm here at Harvest Barn Marketplace, just east of Osceola, where one family's passion for agriculture means food and fun for highway 34 travelers.

Let's check it out.

♪♪ [Kaitlyn Boyer] I'm Kaitlyn Boyer.

I am here today with our family business, the Harvest Bar Marketplace.

We have been in business for over 25 years ever since I was two.

[Kohlsdorf] Okay, well, tell us a little more about Harvest Barn.

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yeah.

So our slogan is It's Everything Good.

So our family over the years has curated a lot of different products, several of which we make ourselves in the store, as well as have some sort of tracing back to our family farm and family business.

[Kohlsdorf] Yeah.

Tell us a little bit about the family because you're all working together, right?

And who is everyone?

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yes.

So I have my parents, Jason and Amy Boyer, both of which grew up in Pennsylvania.

Both of them picked up their roots from their farms back home, brought themselves as well as our original set of Limousin cattle from Pennsylvania out here with them, started the farm out here in Osceola.

♪♪ [Kaitlyn Boyer] My brothers help with a wide variety of things.

Conrad, my one brother, he is the mechanic mind of the family.

And then Casey, he is the animal lover, so he helps a lot with the livestock on the cattle side.

[Kohlsdorf] So you've got the farm, you've got the food, and you've also got fall fun here, right?

Tell us a little bit about that.

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yes.

So we have a fun farm that has a lot of different activities in it.

♪♪ [Kohlsdorf] There we go.

♪♪ [Man Off-Screen] Good job guys.

♪♪ [Kaitlyn Boyer] A lot of it's been homemade by our family and we've just added to it over the years.

And it's just a really fun environment for families to come out and have a fun afternoon on the weekends in September and October.

[Kohlsdorf] The community really was supportive early on, right?

Like they were kind of the one, the backbone of the business, right?

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yes, yes.

So we are very fortunate to live in such a wonderful community.

As we are a marketplace, we really try to promote other family businesses and family farms that are in Iowa.

And so we have a lot of Iowa products that we feature within our store and we offer online as well.

[Kohlsdorf] I love that this is a local business, but you also ship, right, kind of all over the country and really the world.

[Kaitlyn Boyer] It's just really cool and inspiring to see where the product that we made or we sourced locally from other farm families goes across the country.

[Kohlsdorf] Yeah.

Should we put one together?

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yes, absolutely.

First off, we will start with our jarred items.

We have the mild peach salsa.

We have our homemade fudge which we make in our family, our store here, our family business.

Mom makes a lot of it.

We also have the beef deli chubs.

These are our signature family recipes, one of our most popular products too.

We have the candied pecans which we make here in house as well.

We have creamed cinnamon honey from another family farm here in Iowa that we include in the box.

We have our harvest snack mix.

We make this in house too.

And then last but not least is our signature family recipe beef sticks.

[Kohlsdorf] I love it.

Whoever gets this is going to be very happy.

[Kaitlyn Boyer] Yes.

[Kohlsdorf] Why is this a good highway 34 pit stop when you're taking a road trip?

[Kaitlyn Boyer] We have a our two story barn that has a variety of products, and then we have the Fun Farm in September and October.

We have just a lot of things that are local, delicious and wonderful for people to come check out.

[Kohlsdorf] Next, we chat with Kaitlyn's mom, Amy, about one of Harvest Barn Marketplace's storefront staples.

[Kohlsdorf] Well, Amy, one of the things you're famous for here is your fudge.

Tell us the story behind it.

[Amy Boyer] We got into making fudge probably about the fifth year of our business.

At the time, we were selling a lot of produce and we had hard goods on the shelf, but we were looking for some more market food type items and it just kind of came together.

It was the right time.

It's been a staple around here since then, and it's something local that they cannot find.

So my local customers look forward to when we open every season to coming out and getting their sweet fix.

[Kohlsdorf] What is it about homemade treats that you think is a draw for people?

[Amy Boyer] Something that's just something that they don't have at home or don't get to indulge in often.

And when you go on vacation, it's one of the things that you just really can't pass up.

So with us being a destination place, again, it's kind of just a tradition to take some home with you.

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