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Tonje was raised in Norway where lamb roam free maintaining the rural landscape. Her family has always enjoyed dry cured lamb and other traditional lamb dishes.
When her husband moved the family to North Carolina to develop solar farms, she noticed that sheep could maintain the landscape in and around solar farms while helping provide valuable pasture for local farmers.
As the number of solar farms across North Carolina grew, we formed a separate company with local farmers who needed pasture for their sheep, and contracted with the owners of solar farms who needed the grass mowed. She and her husband also invested in a professional farm manager and several hundred sheep to put on their largest solar farm in Biscoe N.C. to develop best practices that they could share with their partners.
As the vegetation management company grew, a market was needed where their farmers could sell their animals so in 2017, we started Sun Raised Foods.
Today, Sun Raised Foods markets their award winning lamb salami, charcuterie and cuts through Farm To Table dinners, farmer’s markets, restaurants and online. In 2022, Sun Raised Foods was awarded the “Made in NC” food award by Our State Magazine for its artisan Lamb Salami.
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