  
 "I didn't mean to start a business," says Trisha Anderson, founder of Frontier
Soups. "I was raising three young children, and cooking was a recreation and a love
for me." One day a friend asked her to bring a food item to the local Junior
League Fair to spice up the usual offerings of jewelry, crafts and clothing. "In a
cooking class I was teaching, I was experimenting with a classic ham hock and bean
soup recipe," Anderson recalls, "so I happened to have a product when the
opportunity presented itself."
Trisha spent the next several days measuring a variety of beans and some
well-chosen spices, then packing them by hand into 275 bags. She cooked up a
crockpot of Minnesota Heartland Soup and was on her way to Frontier's first
product sampling. On the opening evening of the Fair, every last bag was snatched
up and, before the fair was over, she'd sold over 600. For Frontier Soups, it has
been onward and upward ever since.
Little has changed since the beginning in the way of preparation for Frontier Soups. The dried soup
mixes are still packed by hand, the ingredients are all natural, without preservatives,
MSG, or salt, and the product is still created with care you would expect of meal at a neighbors home.
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