GROTE BEEF
Joe and Emily met through a mutual friend and dated throughout college despite Emily attending college in St. Paul and Joe attending college in Iowa. Joe played baseball in college, and Emily made many trips down to Iowa to visit. The final visit for Emily ended with an engagement! Both Joe and Emily graduated from college in 2014 and moved back home for the wedding planning months. Joe and Emily were married in 2015 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Faribault, Minn. The next day, they moved onto the Grote family farm South of Nerstrand, becoming the 6th different generation to live on the farm. In the fall of 2019, Emily and Joe welcomed their first child, Nora. Nora became a big sister in the fall of 2022 when Freddy joined the family. When not busy with Nora and Freddy, Emily and Joe both remain engaged in the community through church, coaching and serving on the local Community Co-op Board. In their free time, they both like staying active playing co-ed volleyball, and Joe plays for the local town baseball team, the Faribault Lakers.