Our Madelia Area Stories

“Today, there are over 13M women-owned businesses and counting,” SBA. In honor of National Women’s Small Business Month, celebrated every October since 2012, MARC is spotlighting Alternative Roots Farm, co-owned by Brooke Knisley.Who is Brooke Knisley?Brooke Knisley is a big-hearted woman with enough love to give her family as a...Continue Reading

What you’re drawn to as a child can also be your life’s calling. As a Madelia native and 5th-generation Madelia High School graduate, Laura Sorenson proved this to be true.When Sorenson was a little girl, instead of playing with her Barbie dolls, she was redecorating, organizing, and coloring the Barbie...Continue Reading

After spending his entire life in Madelia, it made perfect sense for Josh Henry to start his business, Elite Electrical Innovations, in his hometown. “I chose Madelia because I was raised here and also enjoy the community. I have enjoyed seeing how the community has grown since I was a...Continue Reading

When Nick Pietsch’s father passed away in 2001, he and his brother had an important decision to make: either continue Pietsch Construction, the company founded by their father in the late 1980s, or go their separate ways. Nick remembered, “I was working part-time in the construction company and was...Continue Reading