Biography
Dwight Grotberg was born in 1967 and raised on a farm near Wimbledon, North Dakota. After graduating from high school, he traveled to Parana, Brazil and worked at a livestock and grain farm run by a mission organization dedicated to training indigenous people to be self-sufficient and industrious.
After returning home, Grotberg enrolled in Bethany College of Missions and graduated with a degree in Cross-Cultural Studies. He then traveled to New Zealand and worked on farms in the Bay of Islands to gain a global perspective of farming and its methodologies.
In 1989, he returned to North Dakota and attended North Dakota State University to study agricultural economics until 1992. He then moved back to Wimbledon and built a farm of his own on which he currently resides. In 1989, Grotberg married his wife, Alison. They have seven children together, all are currently homeschooled. In 1996, he suffered a spinal cord injury when his tractor was struck by a semi-truck.
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