 A local business has big plans for a plot of land north of Bemidji. Stitsworth Meats is investing in its future by taking their product regionally. Surrounded by friends, family and partners, three generations of the Stitsworth family officially broke ground on a new 10,000 square foot structure in Turtle River. The new facility will make it possible for Stitsworth to purchase from local farmers to supply their operations and expand to other retailers in a wholesale setting. The project hopes to give a boost to the rural northern Minnesota economy. This will give us the capability to sell on a regional basis. The unique part about this is we are going to be buying all of our meat for this operation from farmers within a 50-mile radius. It boosts the economy on the agricultural front and on a manufacturing setting. The new Stitsworth Meats MSU and Smokehouse is expected to be operational later this summer.